Danijel Hočevar

In southern Carinthia, about ninety percent of all inhabitants spoke Slovenian before 1910. Today it is on average a single digit percentage. In this very personal essay documentary, Andrina Mračnikar formulates a political urgency: What happens when one's mother tongue is taken away in everyday life. What must politicians do to counteract the disappearance of a language whose protection is enshrined in the Austrian constitution.

A young woman in early-1900s Italy searches for a mystical sanctuary where her stillborn child can be brought back to life long enough to be baptized.

A 19-year-old woman is killed by a bullet intended for her father in the tragic culmination of a bitter family feud between her father and his cousin, who is now imprisoned for murder. Or is her death just another twist in a saga of blood revenge? In the Albanian mountains, the ancient tribal law Kanun rules, and even though the killer is behind bars, the last word in the case has not been spoken. Religious and legal authorities - like the families involved - have their own powerful and conflicting interests in the controversial law, which is a taboo both in church and modern society. The question, however, is if the young woman’s father can find the faith to not only forgive his cousin, but also reconcile himself with him and break the vicious circle once and for all? Marija Zidar’s epic drama was filmed over 5 years in an obstinate patriarchal world, on the threshold of modern times. A mountain western from the old world, from the stuff of antique tragedies.

Маленький сербский городок. Находясь на грани нищеты и голода мать двоих детей кончает жизнь самоубийством. Социальные службы забирают детей у отца, поскольку простой чернорабочий не в состоянии их прокормить - он сможет вернуть их только доказав свою финансовую состоятельность. Но несмотря на все усилия Николы, его попытки вернуть детей оказываются тщетными. Поняв, что у него нет шансов добиться соблюдения своих прав, отец решает отправиться пешком в Белград просить аудиенции у министра.

Сводные сёстры из мелкого приморского городка недолюбливают друг друга, но обстоятельства вынуждают их съехаться в одну квартиру в Любляне.

В маленьком городе в Македонии каждый год в январе молодые мужчины ныряют за святым крестом, который священник бросает в ледяную реку. Поймавшему обещают благополучие и удачу. На этот раз быстрее всех оказывается Петруния, которая и добывает трофей. Соперники возмущены: как смеет женщина участвовать в ритуале? Разражается невиданный скандал, но Петруния стоит на своём. Крест она выиграла и отдавать не намерена.

Špela graduated in Art History and has never had a steady job. Unlike her two best friends, who have moved out of Slovenia years ago with no plans to return, she is determined to stay in Ljubljana. When even her longtime boyfriend gets a job abroad she moves back in with her parents and her grandma. But Špela wants to grow up and cut the cord instead of delaying her already well overdue adulthood any longer.

A film about a theatre performance and four very notable people behind it: writer and director D. Jovanović, actress M. Zupančič and actors R. Polič and B. Cavazza. This is a story of a love triangle and of a multi-layered, entirely overt intertwining of protagonists’ public artistic personas and their personal lives. The film documents a 4-month process of the making of a theatre piece from the first rehearsal to the opening night, at the same time uncovering the intimate lives of the artists and telling a universal story of the relationship between the real and the imagined, a story of personal and public perceptions of art.

Ulay is a conceptual artist whose photography pushed boundaries, and whose love affair with Marina Abramovic produced some of the best pieces of performance art. Diagnosed with cancer shortly after agreeing to film the documentary, Ulay's illness informs Project Cancer, which is part-retrospective, part-visual document of the year he believed could be the last of his extraordinary life.

After her son's tragic death, Helena abducts her employee, Lucian, and travels with him and her husband to scatter her son's ashes in Macedonia. Meanwhile, Lucian's lover struggles to provide for their son and break free from her dictatorial father.

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.

Hannah and Sam are young, have a house, a lovely daughter, Anja, and well paid work. However, their comfortable family routine is thrown into emotional turmoil. When Hannah realizes Sam has an affair with a young female colleague, she packs her suitcase and returns to her mother. She reunites with her ex-flame Leo, from her student years hoping it will help her to move on, but discovers that Leo is a philanderer. Hannah makes a hard choice.

Architecture is not a static but a dynamic, living thing. Similarly film is highly suited to represent and experience architectures as spaces, as stages for human encounter and interaction. In this series of short films architecture becomes animated, even transformed, with social input. Similarly it serves to animate its viewers/occupants -- architecture as stage and actor both. (Good) built projects in Slovenia generally follow a well-thought and focused approach and execution. They are, relatively speaking, of modest size. They are small not in scale nor ambition -- but small as in contained, disciplined, intelligent and specifically responsive. With room for a smile.

Young mothers and sometimes also their daughters have vastly travelled from Vipavska valley to Egypt in 20th century. Their families were poor and needed money. So they went to Alexandria and worked as wet nurses and helpers for wealthier people. They often left their own kids alone with their fathers, only taking care for them with gifts and money. Many never returned and even if they did, they were not well accepted.

Алекс со своими друзьями отдыхает в скаутском кемпинге у реки Соча. Глава кемпинга строго следит за дисциплиной и пытается воспитывать детей слишком серьезно, чем производит немало комичных ситуаций. Мальчики проявляют немалый интерес к соседнему скаутскому кемпингу девочек, вместо того, чтобы заниматься уроками выживания в дикой природе. И много других забавных и задушевных сцен, снятых в национальном лагере Триглав с его прекрасными пейзажами показывают первую детскую любовь, юмор, дружбу, приключения на природе и т.д.

Александра — 23-летняя студентка факультета английского языка в Любляне. Она не слишком увлечена учебой и более всего стремится заработать денег для лучшей жизни. Никто не знает, что Александра рекламирует себя под ником «Словенка», и что проституция ее тайный источник прибыли. «Словенка» скоро становится популярной в таблоидах, и Александре становится все тяжелее врать своим друзьям и особенно своему доброму и искреннему отцу. Но у нее нет выбора, ведь сказать правду будет значить потерять все.

Алекс с родителями эмигрировал из социалистической Болгарии в Германию по политическим причинам. Дед Алекса, любитель антикоммунистических шуток, так и живёт в Болгарии. Годы спустя Алекс с родителями едут навестить деда, но попадают в аварию. Родители погибли, у Алекса амнезия. Дед приезжает ухаживать за внуком, а затем везёт его в путешествие по Болгарии, здесь к Алексу возвращается память.

At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering the usual amount of boredom awaits the end of their service, counting days to the moment when they should take their uniforms off for good. It is the spring of 1987 and the thought never even crosses their mind that they would, in fact, put them back on quite soon and go to war.

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.

Peter is in his early forties and until recently he worked in a factory, but after Slovenia's integration into the European Union, the factory closed down and Peter and his colleagues have been made redundant. Slowly but surely, he is losing self-confidence and self-esteem.

Торговцы оружием при сделке убивают друг друга. И грузовик, полный контрабандного оружия, случайно оказывается в собственности Ратко, который только что освободился из тюрьмы. По дороге из Сербии в Словению он подбирает молодую певичку Сюзанну, с которой они вместе путешествуют по дорогам Югославии, попадая в разные смешные и грустные ситуации.

After his wife's death a middle-aged man and his friends become increasingly agitated and violent towards the suburbs they inhabit.

Marjetka is living ten years with Maks, who is a painter, and an uncompromising conceptual artist. At first, it seemed different: Max was witty, charming, talented and promising, so he hired Marjetka to reach fame and success. "Well, it is funny today, but fame and money is not coming out of nowhere". The film has a poet, Srecko, Max's mother, an opera singer, and Vilma, Marjetka's friend. In short, the artists themselves, or as Max says from his point of view: "Slovenian - Country artists". And when Marjetka a few days after her 30th birthday, full of doubts about this way of life, which is not to her liking, she realizes that Maks is not only an irreversible bohemian, but also a slacker and sarcastic, she decides to change her life. And this is very radical. Rather than leave it to him.

Oscar runs away from prison only five days before release. He droves off with his girlfriend to Split in a red car, so they could go to Italy and then to America. They meet photographer Jan, and thus their final destination seems every so closer. As police is on their trail, Oscar starts to suspect Jan...

Experimental feature about two young men trying to make a film.

Guti (35, Slovenian) and Sig (50, Icelander) wake up naked and handcuffed to one another on a riverbank near Ljubljana. Sig suffers from memory loss, while Guti recalls a fight with skinheads Sid drunkenly participated in and Guti tried peacefully to intervene in. Sig has no passport or any clue about his identity—the skinheads have taken everything he owned. Guti is trying to build a new home for himself on a river raft after losing his house to the bank and his life to his ex-wife. He introduces Sig to his friends—suburban misfits, who remind Sig of a legend of the hidden people.