The forgotten phenomenon of a youth choir that came to be known as the “Nightingale of Trbovlje” in the 1930s, suggests that one can make extraordinary art and conquer the world even in impossible circumstances and a godforsaken environment.
A super 8mm film by Davorin Marc.
Tomos factories in Buzet, Senožeče, in the Netherlands and in Africa.
A film about moments when our brain reacts instinctively or contrary to all logic. Moments when the simplest task, such as saying hello, is seen as frightening. While some people rarely experience this, if ever at all, others can it this a daily struggle.
Silent documentary.
6 young directors from 6 countries in 3 days in front of the Golden Drum participants created, shot and edited each their own short film on a topic »Cum grano salis«. The topic was revealed to each director only 6 hours before the shooting begins. They all have the same working conditions, the same technical equipment and two actors available. That's the way they can equally demonstrate their creative fantasy and professional ingenuity.
Drago Habjan is a pigeon breeder of the old school. At the age of six, when he saw his first carrier pigeon, he fell in love with pigeons for life. In Drago's words, a pigeon is a mister. And so is Drago. He understands pigeons, and pigeons understand him. The film shows harmony and love difficult to find. It is about love, solitude, anger, loneliness and sadness of a single being. Mister Pigeon.
Archbishop Anton Vovk lived his vocation with strong faith and devotion, conscious of his mission in the then challenging, epochal times. The documentary traces his life and work, portraying the man he truly was: brave, con dent, and at the same time gentle and caring. Using a modern language of cinema combined with original score and unique footage, the film helps the gure of Anton Vovk enter common knowledge and collective memory.
We see the film title card on screen and sound is coming from the cinema, but the screen is black. The filmmaker hands a cellphone with video to two sitting in front of the crowd. The image of the film plays on the phone for those who can see it in the crowd as the audio comes through the cinema speakers.
A short film that combines interviews with different landscapes. Personal stories of two men that share their feelings and life stories on how they were forced to oppress their emotions and never taught to be free in expressing them. Childhood memories, relationship with father and alcohol as a way to escape from yourself.
They say that the blues was born from suffering and from a desperate desire to overcome it, through music, through constant aimless travels, drowning in alcohol. If we talk about blues as all this, then Vili Fajdiga's life was a typical blues one. At that time (1920), in Zasavje and Trbovlje, similar social conditions were evidently established as in the American Mississippi Delta, necessary for the birth of blues music. This is a story about a difficult and varied life, creativity, passion, hope, about falls and not always ups and downs, about love for a woman, for music, for life.
What do a nymphomaniac, a hipster, a stoner and a businessman have in common? They're all waiting in line.
The film is a story of one of the best climbers in the world Natalija Gros, who struggles to climb one of the most challenging verticals in Slovenia: Histerija (8c+) in Mišja pec. The camera follows Natalija’s story during her conquering the Histerija and during the climbing season (trainings, competitions, injuries, testings). Natalija is the first woman in Slovenija to climb such a difficult wall (8c+). So far, only a few female climbers in the world have succeeded in acquiring such a result.
Mysterious envelope circles between people. What is inside it?
Stane, the owner of an inn on the outskirts of the city, also known for his love of helping others, late one night serves a young girl who turns out to have been beaten by her boyfriend, as he has done so many times before, and her sent onto the street.
Short 8mm experimental film.
Fantazija is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) experimental film.
A documentary about the avant-garde group Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK).
A story about a former spy, a honest criminal, a kung-fu fighter, a poet and a locar hero in Tolmin (Western Slovenia, close to Italian border).
