Picnic on Sunday

Picnic on Sunday 1968

5.60

After film school, Godina’s first professional work as a director was “Picnic on Sunday,” a 1968 black-and-white short without any words that shows how seven different people spend a Sunday. A simple concept, but in Godina’s hands the short is suffused with both sexuality and revolution. - Paste

1968

Artificial Paradise

Artificial Paradise 1990

8.00

Los Angeles in 1935. Fritz Lang receives in his hotel apartment the young film amateur Willy, who wants to prepare an interview with him. At a certain moment Lang starts relating how, as an army officer in the First World War, he spent some time in the house of the lawyer Karol Gatnik in a small town in the northeast of Slovenia. Lang makes friends with Gatnik and gets aquainted with all members of his family. When Lang finds out that Gatnik is a passionate film amateur and that he also possesses his own camera, they make a film together. This is probably Lang’s first contact with cinematography. Late at night Lang looks at the photographs in Los Angeles and revives in his spirit the imaginary meeting with his friend Gatnik.

1990

We've Never Been to Venice

We've Never Been to Venice 2008

4.50

Tone, an older man, drives from Germany to visit his son Grega and his daughter-in-law Masha. Though nobody talks about it, something horrible has happened. In attempt to ease their pain for a moment, Tone takes the young couple out for an ice-cream and so begins their drive around the countryside. On the road, Grega and Masha experience sudden changes of mood. They get aggressive, deeply saddened, suddenly cheerful, nervous, depressed... They are together but each on their own. And the gap between them is growing. Meanwhile, Tone drives them further away from home but no further from what has happened.

2008

Spuffies

Spuffies 2021

1

Spuffies have a serious thing for jubees. When they've eaten the last delicious fruit and hunger is about to strike, they head to a distant jubee grove. First, they must cross a murky forest where a strange presence is lurking...

2021

My Dad, the Socialist Kulak

My Dad, the Socialist Kulak 1987

7.40

Year 1945. The second World War is over and the soldiers from the disbanded army are returning home. Yet there is still no sign of Joze Malek.

1987

Codelli

Codelli 2017

1

Codelli is a feature-length docudrama about a little-known film project by Slovenian inventor Baron Anton Codelli. Together with filmmaker and adventurer Hans Schomburgk he filmed in Togo in 1914 the first live-action film in Africa, which possibly inspired James Rice Burroughs for his novel on Tarzan. In the company of three Codelli’s descendants and actor Primož Bezjak, we traced the fate of Codelli’s film, brought the remains from Togo and Berlin to Ljubljana and used the Green Screen technology to bring to life 15 live-action scenes based on 600 Codelli’s museum photographs.

2017

Tango Abrazos

Tango Abrazos 2012

7.00

Two couples in present day Ljubljana enroll in a dance school for tango, and in the process learn a great deal more – about life, about love, about themselves.

2012

Do You See Me?

Do You See Me? 2022

1

A woman who killed her man has served her sentence. She sails through town; she sails through scenes of life. A girl sees her, forgives her, and saves her. The woman has done her thing. The world finally embraces her again.

2022

Three Quarters of the Sun

Three Quarters of the Sun 1959

8.50

A story of a group of men at a small frontier railway station who have been released from German concentration camps and are on their way home.

1959

Toshiro's Heritage

Toshiro's Heritage 2022

1

An Irishman finds out he is part Slovene and also Japanese. On the way to coming closer to his roots and finding out his family's heritage the man faces the rough reality.

2022

Blanka Kolak's Love

Blanka Kolak's Love 1987

1

In the wild times of the Second World War, Blanka marries political grandee Pavle, who is shortly afterwards sent to Goli Otok as a political prisoner. Blanka has enthusiasm for photography, becomes independent and opens a studio of photography with Laco. But soon she realizes that her business partner is an impostor. Pavle returns from prison, but their relationship, despite awareness of the political interference in their intimate sphere, imbues the bitter chill and misunderstanding. Blanka tries to drown her endless problems in alcohol and seduce her only male friend, but her last rescue, the thread of love, is being interrupted as well. Is every love of Blanka Kolak sentenced to death, is love possible at all, is worth living without it?

1987

Ruins

Ruins 2005

6.80

A successful stage director plans to put on an outdoor production of a previously unknown play by a famous writer, but is haunted by his past in the form of the actors and crew with whom he has to work.

2005

Melania

Melania 2022

6.00

We were following the term of US First Lady, Melania Trump, for four years in her hometown in Slovenia. Her former friends and people who knew her remember her with admiration and in a critical way. Some even want to meet her. Who is this enigmatic and elusive person?

2022

The State of Shock

The State of Shock 2011

5.50

Set in socialist Yugoslavia in 1986, a humble and diligent factory worker falls into a 10-year shock right at his working place. He wakes up from coma in hospital in 1996 capitalist Slovenia, only to find out that he's left without job as being redundant.

2011

I'll Probably Never See You Again

I'll Probably Never See You Again 2017

1

Hana, a young woman in her late twenties, has been faced with the most difficult decision in her life: to give birth to a child that will very likely have a congenital genetic disorder; or to have an abortion.

2017

Block 5

Block 5 2024

5.00

When Alma discovers that her father’s company plans to demolish the playground, she gets determined to save green areas. Alma has no choice but to join forces with her worst enemies – Luna’s skate gang.

2024

Don't Forget to Breathe

Don't Forget to Breathe 2019

6.33

15-year old Klemen lives with his elder brother Peter and single mother in a small and remote rural town. Klemen's well-established routine of spending time with his beloved brother on the tennis court and by the nearby river gets interrupted by Peter's sudden and passionate love affair with his gorgeous classmate Sonja. This triggers a torrent of conflicting emotions and reckless actions by Klemen. —Slovenian Film Centre

2019

The Felons

The Felons 1987

3.00

Peter Berdon (Mario Selič) joins a group of Stalinists after his father is killed by the Nazis in this grim political drama. The film begins with his arrest and uses flashbacks to tell the events that led to his incarceration. His abuse is chronicled both in and out of prison after he falls in with a Bonnie and Clyde-like duo after the war is over.

1987

Burglars are at Work in the Summer

Burglars are at Work in the Summer 2010

10.00

Erjavec family (dad, mom, daughter, son) go camping in Slovenian Alps. Instead of a peaceful vacation, they end up involved in detective kind of story.

2010