Populär Vun Slovenia

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.

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...

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.

Fayza from Egypt and Savyasachi from India have been trying to have a conversation with the workers, who come to work in Krsko from Bosnia and Herzegovina and other Ex-Yugoslavian countries, Albania and Kosovo. The first day the workers were fine with filming, but the next day there were just signs of their work on the streets…

What if the only language you've ever known is threatened to be extinct? Three deaf protagonists belonging to three different generations are fighting to keep the sign language, the only language in which they profess love and friendship, hardship and grief, alive.

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

An exploration of the ethics and aesthetics of pleasure.

Presenting Maribor Fair exhibitions and its historical review.

Aleksander is a man with a successful career. He is on his way to take his eleven-year-old son to music school, but Jan doesn’t wait for his father where he is supposed to. Instead, he is taking a shower, still dirty from playing football.

Animation of still frames with sound.

Boštjan Gorenc Pižama, Perica Jerković and Gašper Bergant in an amusing show bring an exclusive insight into the stand-up scene. Sex in the car, unusual tattoos, child rearing and reality show will be just some of the topics that will be touched by the bearded flowers of Slovenian freestyle comedy. The most comic comedy offers a half-hour of laughter in a staggered male company with no hair (only) on the tongue.

Two typical Slovenian families live in Alpine idyll, until one of the neighbors buys a new car...

Documentary recording of protests in Ljubljana, hidden for a long time and hidden in a Viba film store in a box entitled "Balkanski Hokol".

A documentary recording of student demonstrations and assemblies at the student campus in Ljubljana.

Djulo falls in love with a giant green eye.

Mario Marzidovšek (1961-2011) was one of the pioneers of the Yugoslavian/ Slovene old-school industrial/noise scene.

A bridge over River Sava is being built. The opening ceremony is a festive occasion.

The artist Marko Brecelj from the legendary Slovenian band Buldožer goes in action. With a Go Pro camera he has countless fantastic offensive ideas. How it goes in the end you can see in this film/musical. With some extreme scenes he manages to make this take a bit provocative and he gains a “soft terrorist” reputation.

Inserts from neo-avant-garde films by Emir Kusturica, Zivojin Pavlovic and Zelimir Zilnik made in the so-called Yugoslav film period of the 1970s and 1980s are re-read, re-worked, re-coded in a video story contemplating the role of different media in the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the time of world internet communications, cyborg stories and world spread computer nets. If it is true that we all part of a giant hypertext, coded by adapted and shortened CD-ROM histories, then why not try to display the video picture as hypertext, as the one which will show the hidden spots of our history and present?

Slovenian director Petra Seliskar investigates the role of ideology in her personal family history by means of interviews with her paternal grandfather, her Macedonian boyfriend Brand's maternal grandmother and his Cuban grandmother on his father's side. Illustrated by archive footage and home movies, her voice-over describes her family's personal story, Yugoslavia under Tito, and the recent war, accompanied by some particularly shocking footage. The nature shots and the alternation of classical, popular and revolutionary music occasionally lend the stories a light-hearted tone.