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Estrellita poster
Movie

A widow grieves, discovers her deceased spouse's secret, and builds a relationship with a talented boy who used to play the violin with her husband in a local bar.

Estrellita

Oct 2007

Pero poster
Movie

This film is a homage to the life, career and fears of Slovenian actor Peter Musevski. He was always Pero for me, not Peter.

Pero

Jan 2023

Ulay poster
Movie

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.

Ulay

Sep 2013

The Actor poster
Movie

Everything the actor plays in films later happens to him in real life.

The Actor

Nov 2024

The Happiest Man in the World poster
Movie

Asja, a 45-year-old single woman living in Sarajevo, meets Zoran, a 46-year-old banker, at a dating event. Zoran is not there looking for love though, but for forgiveness. During the war in 1993 he was shooting at the city from the opposite side, and he wants to meet his first victim. Now, they both have to relive the pain in their search for forgiveness.

The Happiest Man in the World

Feb 2023

Wake Me poster
Movie

In this intelligent mix of Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation” and Christopher Nolan’s “Memento”, the protagonist Rok loses his memory and is seemingly turning into a better man. Or will his ultra-radical past take over his personality again?

Wake Me

Nov 2022

God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya poster
Movie

In Stip, a small town in Macedonia, every January the local priest throws a wooden cross into the river and hundreds of men dive after it. Good fortune and prosperity are guaranteed to the man who retrieves it. This time, Petrunya dives into the water on a whim and manages to grab the cross before the others. Her competitors are furious - how dare a woman take part in their ritual? All hell breaks loose, but Petrunya holds her ground. She won her cross and will not give it up.

God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya

May 2019

Hidden People poster
Movie

Guti and Sig wake up naked and handcuffed to one another on a riverbank near Ljubljana. Sig suffers from memory loss, after a fight with skinheads that Guti tried peacefully to intervene. 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 and introduces Sig to his friends, a group of suburban misfits, who remind Sig of a legend of the hidden people.

Hidden People

Sep 2025

With Mom poster
Movie

While her middle class, socialist family is falling apart around her, Berina, a young artist, tries to cope both with her awakening sexuality and her mother Jasna's imminent death. Her father cannot accept the fact that life is already happening without his wife. Her younger sister Luna cannot or does not want to grow up. For everybody's sake, Berina wants to save her mother's life and her family the only way she can - through art, and through magic.

With Mom

Aug 2013

The State of Shock poster
Movie

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.

The State of Shock

Nov 2011

Father poster
Movie

Nikola’s children are taken away from him after social services decide that he is too poor to provide them with a decent living environment. He sets off on foot to lodge a complaint in Belgrade.

Father

Mar 2020

The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears poster
Movie

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.

The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears

Oct 2012

Pogana poster
Movie

On a faraway Dalmatian island in the 1920s Pogana, a woman from the inlands, is sold to be the new wife of a widow sailor with five children. When the Sailor is lost at sea, Pogana is left at the mercy of the cruel villagers and their customs.

Pogana

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The Border Post poster
Movie

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.

The Border Post

Mar 2006

Half-Sister poster
Movie

Half-sisters from a small coastal town who were never that close are forced by circumstance to share a flat in Ljubljana.

Half-Sister

Jul 2019

Nightlife poster
Movie

The lives of a wealthy married couple radically change in an instant. While the husband is in critical condition after an accident that occurred under strange circumstances, the wife tries to understand the situation and to salvage what she can… In this constricted, small-scale drama by a renowned Slovenian filmmaker, Pia Zemljič excels in the role of the resourceful wife.

Nightlife

Jul 2015

It Was a Beautiful Day poster
Movie

Every summer, four best friends spend a few days in the mountains in a remote place in Slovenia. But their friendship was shattered years ago by an event at a party. When they want to face each other and start anew, they get involved with a strange family and the situation soon spirals out of control.

It Was a Beautiful Day

Nov 2024

Good Night, Missy poster
Movie

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.

Good Night, Missy

Sep 2011

Shame and Money poster
Movie

After losing their livelihood in a village, a Kosovar family is forced to move to the capital in pursuit of a place in a hypercapitalist society.

Shame and Money

Nov 2026

An Ode to the Poet poster
Movie

Miha, a poet whom no one takes seriously, earns his living by writing cheap advertising slogans. This outsider poet of the new age gets commissioned to write an ode to the famous Slovene poet Preseren, for the occasion of the national celebration, due to the 200th anniversary of Preseren's birth. Who was Preseren, what did he drink and what sort of woman did he like? A comedy can begin.

An Ode to the Poet

Jan 2001

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