Populär Vun Slovenia

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,

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.

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.

A hungry and solitary weasel roams the dry landscape, intent on hunting the last remaining birds in a tree. The birds try to keep the tree in balance while the weasel doggedly climbs its trunk. The tree sways, the stomach growls, the weasel persists until it’s too late. A classic anti-hero cartoon – not just for children.

The Front Lines of Kurdistan is a TV documentary about the modern history of the Kurds, an oppressed and besieged people attempting to create an independent state on the ruins of Middle East. The Kurds are the largest ethnic group without one; Kurdish-inhabited areas reach into Iran, Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. The documentary takes us to the battle lines between Kurdish forces and the Islamic State in Kirkuk and the Sinjar Mountains (Iraq), and Kobani (Syria). In December 2014 and January 2015, Erik Valenčič made it to the front lines of the fierce offensives and interviewed key figures in the struggle for an independent Kurdistan.

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.

This story of various shelters and bunkers is a story about the senselessness of wars and conflicts, and at the same time a story about the turbulent history of Slovenia.

Experimental short fiction film.

This feature documentary celebrates the life of the charismatic defender of the Carpathians and the Soča river, General Svetozar Boroević, the only field marshal of non-German background in the 50-million Austro-Hungarian Empire. One of the finest commanders of World War I died forgotten and destitute on 23 May 1920 in Klagenfurt, aged 63.

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.

In the heart of the Šalek valley, behind a cloud of smoke from the nearby power plant, lies the town of Šoštanj. When Slovenia is supplied with enough electricity and the smoke dissipates, only a few people remain there. This is their story.

Jurij Kraigher was an Austro-Hungarian pilot and flight instructor, who also served in the air force of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. A pioneer of intercontinental flights at Pan American Airways, he broke the world speed record for passenger aircraft.

The author constantly depicts the duality of human nature: the same horror occurs in both the mythical and the real world. She illustrates all this with the use of electronic tricks that can, for example, petrify a human face or wall up a human being in just a few seconds. With an electronic trick, even human figures dressed in extravagant costumes return to nature: a man in a costume reminiscent of a bird turns into a real bird. At the same time, the scenes are shot from a bird's eye view, which, as always, emphasizes man's smallness and his loss in his own world and nature.

A good century after Tivoli Hotel opened in Ljubljana, the building underwent a thorough restoration to become the Švicarija Creative Centre. Known for decades as “the cradle of Slovenian sculpture”, it had been home to artists as well as oddities and Russian migrants. The documentary combines personal accounts from former residents with archive material and the life this extraordinary building has today.

A new combination of a drawing put in a classical artistic space and of surrealist contents arising from metaphors and associations. Classical cartoon heroes are swapped with their animated movements and silhouettes.

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

Children's games are without boundaries, even between war and play.