Rok Biček

Birth : 1985-10-17, Novo Mesto, Slovenia

History

Rok Biček is a Slovenian film director, born October 17, 1985, in Novo mesto. Biček graduated from the Academy of Theater, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana in film and television directing. Both of his feature films, Class Enemy from 2013 and Family from 2017, received the Vesna Award for Best Film at the Slovenian Film Festival. Class Enemy was also a Slovenian Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

Profile

Movies

Moja Vesna

Producer

While the older sister throws out her feelings in poetry slams, the 10-year-old Moja attempts in her own way to hold things together and repair the hole that her mother's death has torn in her family. Sara Kern tells of a childlike process of grief and closure which does not shut its eyes to the cracks in the world, but also admires the light that shimmers through them.

Penalty Shot

Writer

Two best friends spend an afternoon on a football field, dreaming of making it to the local football team. But dreams come with a price.

Penalty Shot

Editor

Two best friends spend an afternoon on a football field, dreaming of making it to the local football team. But dreams come with a price.

Penalty Shot

Producer

Two best friends spend an afternoon on a football field, dreaming of making it to the local football team. But dreams come with a price.

Penalty Shot

Director

Two best friends spend an afternoon on a football field, dreaming of making it to the local football team. But dreams come with a price.

The Last Day of Patriarchy

Producer

Nina is pregnant with Jakub. Today, he introduces her to his family. They’re all gathered in the hospital at the bedside of his grandfather. Just as the young lady tries to put on a brave face, she is faced with the surprising reaction of the dying relative: he wants to see her breasts. This sparks a debate to which she is not invited – should the patriarch’s last vow be satisfied?

Bird Atlas

Co-Producer

An ageing proprietor of a technology company has dedicated his whole life to his work, so it comes as a big blow when things suddenly start to fall apart at the seams.

Framing Sutherland

Co-Producer

In a series of short portraits the documentary tries to establish a dialog with the Christian painting The Broad and The Narrow Way, to illustrate some of the spiritual and existential challenges of the South African community of Sutherland.

Winter Flies

Co-Producer

Mischievously self-assured Mára and somewhat eccentric Heduš set out into the frozen wastes in search of adventure – by car, naturally. After all, Mára’s turning fifteen soon. A road movie about the flies that occasionally buzz around even in winter, and a story that tells of the elusive bond of boyhood friendship and the irrepressible desire to experience something, even if you don't exactly know what.

The Family

Director

Interpersonal relationships in a dysfunctional family under the microscope of the camera.

The Family

Writer

Interpersonal relationships in a dysfunctional family under the microscope of the camera.

Class Enemy

Writer

Relations between the students and the new teacher of German are extremely tense. When one female student commits suicide, her schoolmates blame the teacher for her death. An awareness that things are not quite so black and white comes too late.

Director

Editor

Screenplay

Director

Editor

At night a city bus driver finds an abandoned baby near a stop. A divorced man comes to pick up his excited son for the weekend. A pretty doctor befriends a quadriplegic. Out of this unfolds a delicate story of human relationships, in which tough feelings of sympathy and guilt the protagonists are confronted with different ways of looking at events.