Newsreel 4517 – Across the Water into Freedom

Newsreel 4517 – Across the Water into Freedom 2022

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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.

2022

Kameleoni - The Beatles of Former Yugoslavia

Kameleoni - The Beatles of Former Yugoslavia 2019

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A musical-documentary film about five high school students from Koper who drove Yugoslavia crazy in the late 1960s. Despite a handful of their own original compositions, they filled halls and football stadiums with more than 10,000 visitors. The Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Center and the Tivoli Hall were opened in Ljubljana. They laid the foundations of the Yugoslav music industry. The Kameleoni pulled back the Yugoslav Iron Curtain and helped the entire generation break free from the shackles of ideological and cultural post-war monumentalism.

2019

Where Life Is Written

Where Life Is Written 2013

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An amateur film shot in only 8 days. We follow teenagers who are on their way to becoming adults, even though they are supposed to be adults already. We follow the poetic and sarcastic Selektor, who is followed by his high school friend, who randomly runs into an old acquaintance – Dahi – and Sonja, an intelligent girl in her twenties who lives both in the working world and in the company of those who are supposed to be a kind of elite. A smaller part of the story is also devoted to other characters, about whom we learn as much as we are meant to. We meet James and Maxim, an Englishman who writes tourist stories about Slovenia and a French physicist, whom chance has brought together among the guests of the bar, so that through them we also learn more about the others and vice versa.

2013

Prince Ki-ki-do: On the Run

Prince Ki-ki-do: On the Run 2018

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In Ki-Ki-Do's forest, a strange creature – a frightened long-necked Ostrich – is on the run from a ruthless hunter. As Rosalia the Pig fails to protect Ostrich, Prince Ki-Ki-Do is called to action! But Ki-Ki-Do has been hit by a tranquilizer gun and is sleeping like a baby. Ostrich seems to be doomed to spending the rest of its life behind bars...

2018

The War of the Words or the Respectful Silence?

The War of the Words or the Respectful Silence? 2020

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The War of the Words or the Respectful Silence? is a commissioned film made for an educational program in schools. Through this program, children rediscover their own history, the history of their territory and apply this knowledge to the future.

2020

Cherry Family

Cherry Family 2019

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On the way to the land where it's always warm The Cherry Family experiences unusual things.

2019

Playing with Concrete

Playing with Concrete 2020

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The city of Nova Gorica was designed as an example of modernism based on the idea of shared public space. The documentary short follows preparations for the renovation of a neighborhood where playgrounds with unique concrete equipment now stand deserted, falling into ruin. What will become of them? Has our relationship with the world and others changed, too, in addition to children’s play?

2020

Turbofolk Under Triglav

Turbofolk Under Triglav 2007

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The phenomenon of urban country music from the Balkans particularly in Slovenia.

2007

Hard

Hard 2019

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An exploration of the ethics and aesthetics of pleasure.

2019

Where Was Jacobus Gallus Born

Where Was Jacobus Gallus Born 1967

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Biography of Slovenian composer of Madrigals Gallus, born in the 16th century. In search for his accidental descendants in Slovenia, accompanied by his music interpreted by the Gallus Choir from Ljubljana.

1967

What Would You Like?

What Would You Like? 1962

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Nostalgic farewell of the old Ljubljana market place. New self-service stores will need time to adjust and gain the genuineness and directness of shopping on the market place.

1962

Pressure

Pressure 2020

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Demonic pressure of schizophrenic and paranoid media through Satan's eye on everyman who is looking for a solution to keep his sanity. (The film was made during the general quarantine in Slovenia in 2020 based on the government decree to fight coronavirus)

2020

Memory Machine

Memory Machine 2019

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A pulsating, noisy chorus of blurry images that should – if ‘the machine’ works – trigger reflection and produce consistent bulks of memories.

2019

Uncle Geza Goes to Zaturci

Uncle Geza Goes to Zaturci 2019

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Uncle Geza goes on a trip to Ukraine following the footsteps of his beloved grandfather Peter Kutos, who fought on the Austro-Hungarian side against the Russians during the First World War. There wouldn't be anything special about this trip, if the bird that announces death, would not begin to scream in the orchard in front of the Kutos family's house. This causes turmoil among the travelers. Nevertheless, they go to Ukraine and it seems that everything will be fine and that this will be just another nostalgic journey of grandchildren's following the footsteps of their grandfathers. Then, in the middle of the journey towards Zaturci, a message from military museum comes up that Peter Kutos could not fight in Zaturci in 1916, since he was called into the army in 1917, a year later. That changes everything. And this will have to be said to Geza.

2019

STOP!

STOP! 2019

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In her autumn years, a woman reminisces about the fateful year of 1947, when the newly drawn border between Italy and Yugoslavia cut through the region of Gorizia; this was also the year when she found love. Hers is a peculiar tale with a tinge of the surreal, as well as a family drama shaped by real events.

2019

It is Coldest in the Shade of Cages

It is Coldest in the Shade of Cages 2016

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Zdenko Šturman is a man collecting waste, or rather things the society uses, gets tired of, and throws away. His house and courtyard are nothing but giant “storage space” for waste products piled two metres high. Šturman accumulates things that remind him of his good old younger days. But behind all this is a great man, a positive individual who decided to live by principles different from those of the modern society: no TV, no internet, no stress. A bohemian lifestyle, which in the recent years has turned him into quite a star.

2016