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An evocative journey to a small Slovenian village turns into an enchanting immersion into the collective memory and the backbone of a certain place through stories from the present and the past that converge, intermingle, coexist outside of time, in the plane of the unseen, in the sphere of sentiments. With photographs, taken by photographer Stojan Kerbler decades ago, of the village and its residents serving as a guide, the film crafts the portrait of a place through narrations, images, poetry and pure cinematic beauty. It may not be easy to describe how "a tree grows in dreams" in just a handful of words, but you can be sure that seeing it is nothing less than an experience beyond a mere viewing, something you experience like a dream or a caress, like a song that glides from your ears straight to your heart.

A documentary on the youngest group of the unemployed, aged 16–23, follows the lives of six unemployed young people having the status ZERO. The aim is to show to the public the not so rare situation of being considered an outcast.

The film is set in a youth home, which houses children who have been removed from socially inappropriate environments.

Every year in Ljubljana, during the Pride Parade, a big rainbow flag is hung from the Ljubljana castle tower. Each colour symbolizes a different component of the LGBTIQ+ identity, all of them together illustrating the diversity of the LGBTIQ+ community. Through eight personal stories, the film discusses the importance of the flag and its significance for LGBTIQ+ people.

Trina is a young girl, who is running away from her family, society, herself. Since she was a kid she has been listening how wrong it is, if you don't like the opposite sex. Katja moves in next door, they soon become more than friends. Trina is torn between her family and her own identity.

Ceremonies in the house where the first Slovene poet, Valentin Vodnik (1758-1819), was born.

The documentary film 62.a shows the development path of Slovenian sign language in the school system. The education of deaf children has left lifelong consequences due to ossified teaching and violation of basic rights to use sign language. Shocking personal confessions reveal how the ban on the use of the mother tongue in education had a fatal impact on the deaf linguistic minority. As a result of the linguistic genocide, which lasted for an entire century, all conditions were established for the final extinction of the Slovenian sign language. The deaf community, with the help of its representative disability organization and societies, united in efforts to prevent this from happening. Deaf people have been strengthening their cultural creativity throughout this little revolution,

Kai and Maris are a young couple living in Slovenia in the year 2030. All over the world, the state of war is becoming more and more alarming. In Slovenia, however, a totalitarian regime rules, which does not allow the individual any freedom. The story takes place at night when they try to escape. Will they make it? Are we really free?

Živela Koroška is the substantive continuation of the film dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the plebiscite in 2020 (One Hundred Years Since the Carinthian Plebiscite), and shows life in Carinthia after the plebiscite.

The history of Christmas Bread making.

Borut, a hitman with suicidal tendencies who wants to leave his old life behind, receives a call from his boss who supposedly has one last job for him.

The film presents a portrait of Zied Abdellaoui who – seeking a better life – came to Austria through the Balkan route. He walked 4517km, experienced 26 illegal push-backs, several violent abuses and now resides without documents in Austria.

Ella sits in the compartment and thinks. Ivan gets on the train. They meet.

Experimental short fiction film.

TV film about the legendary Ljubljana bar Šumi.

In the autumn of his life, forester Anton Prelesnik travels through the autumn forest, where he spent most of his years. The Kocevsko forest is his home. In it, he gave meaning to a turbulent and difficult life that overwhelms too many people's destinies: workers at the once famous Roska sawmill, Kocevje Germans, taking care of the wounded in partisan hospitals, those killed in extrajudicial killings…

Portrait of Ivan Kramberger, Slovenian presidential candidate, who was assasinated in 1992.

A complex landscape of improvised situations immersed in a perpetual network of mines under the Slovenian town of Trbovlje (Iztok Kovács' hometown and his main source of inspiration). The realistic imagery of this post-socialist city, which seems to still exist outside of time, has triggered the impulse of this introspective introspection by a team of renowned dancers and filmmakers. The physical tension and human flashes of seven bodies crashing into a deliberately chosen enclosed environment, surrounded by the unlit warmth and humidity of the underworld, inhabit and create the poetic mood of the film, echoing Tarkovsky and Beckett.

A hardworking farmer wins a free holiday at a sea resort. For the first time in his life, Mikolaš can rest and relax in peace. A satire about agricultural policy and social differences.

An emotionally shattering portrait of the unfulfilled childhood of Anatolij Rizov, a boy caught in between the post-catastrophe condition of his home town Chernobyl and the state of siege in Slovenia during its brief war for independence, where Anatolij is spending summer holidays.