Film Archive

Slowenian Animation 2022
Filmstill A War of Words or Respectful Silence?
A War of Words or Respectful Silence?
Leo Černic
A film commissioned for a school education programme. The goal of this programme is to teach children about their own history and that of their country.
Filmstill A War of Words or Respectful Silence?

A War of Words or Respectful Silence?

Vojna besed ali spoštljiva tišina?
Leo Černic
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Slovenia,
Italy
2020
2 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A film commissioned for a school education programme. The goal of this programme is to teach children about their own history and that of their country – especially on the background of the recent wars. The hope is that this knowledge will also be applied to the future, that it will bring colour to the black and white, a smile to the gloom.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Leo Černic
Script
Leo Černic
Editor
Leo Černic
Producer
Mateja Zorn
Sound
Samo Jurca
Animation
Leo Černic
Slowenian Animation 2022
Filmstill Boles
Boles
Špela Čadež
Filip and Tereza have little in common except for the wall between their apartments. Loosely based on Gorky, Špela Čadež makes the puppets dance: a pas de deux of neighbouring lonelinesses.
Filmstill Boles

Boles

Boles
Špela Čadež
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Slovenia,
Germany
2013
13 minutes
Slovenian
Subtitles: 
English

Filip lives next to Tereza, he is a blocked writer, she is an ageing prostitute. They have little in common, except for the wall separating their apartments. One day Tereza asks him to write a letter to her fiancé. But that’s only the beginning … Špela Čadež makes the puppets dance, loosely based on Maxim Gorky: a pas de deux of neighbouring lonelinesses.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Špela Čadež
Script
Špela Čadež, Gregor Zorc
Cinematographer
Michael Jörg
Editor
Thomas Schmidl
Producer
Špela Čadež
Sound
Johanna Herr
Score
Tomaž Grom
Animation
Oliver Thorm
Filmstill Boy, Bloodbrother of Death

Boy, Bloodbrother of Death

Fant, pobratim smrti
Maja Weiss
Focus: Post-1991 Slovenian Documentary Films 2023
Documentary Film
Slovenia
1992
67 minutes
Ukrainian
Subtitles: 
English

The Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 also resulted in a humanitarian catastrophe. Many were affected, including eight-year-old Anatoly Rizov. In “Boy, Bloodbrother of Death,” Maja Weiss draws an emotionally shattering portrait of the unfulfilled childhood of a boy caught between the apocalyptic scenario his Ukrainian hometown became and – utterly ironic – the no less threatening state of emergency in Slovenia. During the summer holidays, Anatoly is supposed to recover there from the frightening conditions at home. But in the fight for independence from Yugoslavia, the place of refuge becomes a crisis area, too.

Simon Popek

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Director
Maja Weiss
Script
Gorazd Perko
Cinematographer
Bojan Kastelic
Editor
Sonja Peklenk
Producer
RTV, UL AGRFT - Akademija za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo
Filmstill Boy, Bloodbrother of Death 2

Boy, Bloodbrother of Death 2

Fant, pobratim smrti 2
Maja Weiss
Focus: Post-1991 Slovenian Documentary Films 2023
Documentary Film
Slovenia
2012
52 minutes
Russian
Subtitles: 
English

Chernobyl, 25 years later. Maja Weiss meets the boy, Anatoli, as a young man. What has happened in the meantime – between the nuclear disaster and the prospect of another tragedy? Where have all the international relief funds disappeared, and where did the millions intended for the reconstruction of the decaying sarcophagus of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant seep away? Where is my life taking me? What legacy will I leave to my son? These are just some of the questions that Ukrainian Anatoly Rizov, now grown up and twenty years after the first documentary portrait about his fate shaken by crises and wars, tries to answer.

Simon Popek

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Director
Maja Weiss
Script
Maja Weiss, Gorazd Perko
Cinematographer
Bojan Kastelic
Editor
Tilen Čufer, Maja Weiss, Peter Braatz
Producer
BELA FILM d.o.o., RTV
Sound Design
Marjan Drobnič
Score
Chris Eckman
Slowenian Animation 2022
Filmstill Chicory ’n’ Coffee
Chicory ’n’ Coffee
Dušan Kastelic
The richly detailed animated story of a lifelong deception: Day by day, the wife serves chicory coffee substitute, though her husband demands real coffee.
Filmstill Chicory ’n’ Coffee

Chicory ’n’ Coffee

Čikorija an’ kafe
Dušan Kastelic
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Slovenia
2008
9 minutes
Slovenian
Subtitles: 
English

This musical, richly detailed 3D animation is based on a Slovenian folk tale which tells the story of a peasant couple from wedding to death and is also the story of a lifelong deception: Day by day, the wife serves chicory coffee substitute, though her bully of a husband demands real coffee. Everyone knows about the swindle; he is the only one who remains clueless.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Dušan Kastelic
Script
Dušan Kastelic
Editor
Dušan Kastelic
Producer
Dušan Kastelic
Sound
Mateja Starić
Score
Iztok Mlakar
Animation
Dušan Kastelic, Cory Collins
Slowenian Animation 2022
Filmstill Far East Film Festival Trailer 2009
Far East Film Festival Trailer 2009
Špela Čadež
The Far East Film Festival in Udine is dedicated to popular Asian films. Špela Čadež’s trailer for its 11th festival edition is dedicated to the love of noodles that unites nations.
Filmstill Far East Film Festival Trailer 2009

Far East Film Festival Trailer 2009

Far East Film Festival Trailer 2009
Špela Čadež
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Italy,
Slovenia
2009
1 minute
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Since 1999, the Far East Film Festival, the biggest festival of popular Asian films in Europe, has been held annually in the Italian city of Udine. Špela Čadež was commissioned to design the trailer for its 11th edition in 2009 and delivered a crisp and short, wonderfully incisive puppet animation about the love of noodles – with or without cheese – that unites cultures and continent.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Špela Čadež
Script
Špela Čadež
Producer
Far East Film Festival (FEFF)
Sound
Johanna Herr
Animation
Špela Čadež
Slowenian Animation 2022
Filmstill Farewell
Farewell
Leon Vidmar
Lovro steps into the bathtub. A drop falls from the faucet and makes waves – into the past, back to the day he went fishing with his grandfather for the first time.
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Farewell

Slovo
Leon Vidmar
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Slovenia
2016
6 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Lovro steps into the bathtub. A drop falls from the faucet and makes waves – into the past, back to the day he went fishing with his grandfather for the first time. Thoughts, sounds, bath utensils swirl memory and reality together … With this animated melancholia, Leon Vidmar, a student of Špela Čadež, continues in the vein of his teacher’s works in terms of craft and atmosphere.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Leon Vidmar
Script
Jerneja Kaja Balog
Cinematographer
Miloš Srdić
Editor
Leon Vidmar, Teo Rižnar
Producer
Kolja Saksida
Sound Design
Julij Zornik
Score
Tomaž Grom
Animation
Leon Vidmar, Jaka Kramberger
Filmstill Granny’s Sexual Life

Granny’s Sexual Life

Babičino seksualno življenje
Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard
Focus: Post-1991 Slovenian Documentary Films 2023
Animated Film
Slovenia,
France
2021
13 minutes
Slovenian
Subtitles: 
English

In this animation-documentary hybrid, four older women reflect on their memories of the old times when they were young and relations between the sexes were completely different. Their many voices merge into one: Grandmother Vera speaks. She tells her story in precise detail, gives insight into the turbulence of her youth and shares memories of her intimate life. She speaks as a representative of Slovenian women in the first half of the 20th century and illustrates their status in the gender and social hierarchies of that era.

Simon Popek

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Director
Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard
Script
Maria Bohr, Urška Djukić
Editor
Urška Djukić
Producer
Edwina Liard, Nidia Santiago, Olivier Catherin
Sound Design
Julij Zornik
Score
Tomaž Grom
Animation
Émilie Pigeard
Filmstill Karpotrotter

Karpotrotter

Karpopotnik
Matjaž Ivanišin
Focus: Post-1991 Slovenian Documentary Films 2023
Documentary Film
Slovenia
2013
48 minutes
Slovenian
Subtitles: 
English

In 1971, Karpo Godina, then 28 years old, took his camera on a trip through the flatlands of Vojvodina and shot an unusual road movie. Only fragments of that footage have survived to this day. Forty years later, another camera undertakes the same journey, retracing the paths of the young Godina and imagining his impressions of the lives of ordinary people in this rural region. A new unusual road movie emerges. It is about places, times and memories. It is also paying homage to Karpo Godina, whose work flourished during the so-called Black Wave period of Yugoslav cinema.

Simon Popek

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Director
Matjaž Ivanišin
Cinematographer
Marko Brdar
Editor
Uja Irgolič
Producer
Djordje Legen
Co-Producer
RTV
Sound Design
Branko Rožman, Tom Lemajič, Julij Zornik
Slowenian Animation 2022
Filmstill Kurent
Kurent
Miha Reja
The 2D animation, reduced to clear shapes and colours, interweaves the coming-of-age outburst of its protagonist with the wild and loud Slovenian carnival figure Kurent.
Filmstill Kurent

Kurent

Kurent
Miha Reja
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Slovenia
2021
7 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

This 2D animation, reduced to clear shapes and colours, interweaves its narrative with the Slovenian carnival figure Kurent. In the evening, a boy on the threshold of becoming a teenager sneaks to the annual expulsion of winter. Wild masked figures romp there and ear-splitting cow bells ring out, and the next morning nothing is the same.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Miha Reja
Script
Miha Reja
Producer
Boštjan Potokar
Sound Design
Boštjan Kačičnik
Score
Miha Reja, Boštjan Gombač
Animation
Miha Reja
Filmstill Last Minute

Last Minute

Zadnja minuta
Špela Čadež, Marina Rosset
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Germany,
Slovenia
2010
2 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

The chalk chases the shadow. Once it is captured, only traces of the game remain. Drawing, erasing, drawing again on a porous surface. Like on a sloppily wiped blackboard, shades of images that have long ceased to exist shine through. Špela Čadež stages a race between fleeting and manifest forms that – at least in terms of film theory – knows no winner.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Špela Čadež, Marina Rosset
Producer
Špela Čadež
Sound
Tomaž Grom, Johanna Herr
Animation
Špela Čadež, Marina Rosset
Slowenian Animation 2022
Filmstill Liliana
Liliana
Milanka Fabjančič
Milanka Fabjančič uses sepia and pastel-coloured drawings to bring to life the miraculous story of the factory worker Liliana, who carries a shining secret in her heart.
Filmstill Liliana

Liliana

Liliana
Milanka Fabjančič
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Slovenia
2019
7 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Misty-eyed and nostalgic, this film takes us into the past. The accomplished illustrator Milanka Fabjančič uses sepia and pastel-coloured drawings to bring to life the miraculous story of the industrious and meek factory worker Liliana. Every night she takes off a shining necklace, every morning she puts it back on. During the day, the secret of her meekness remains hidden in her heart.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Milanka Fabjančič
Script
Milanka Fabjančič
Editor
Milanka Fabjančič, Matic Drakulić
Producer
Kolja Saksida
Co-Producer
Tanja Prinčič, Teo Rižnar
Animation
Milanka Fabjančič
Filmstill Lovesick

Lovesick

Lovesick
Špela Čadež
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Germany,
Slovenia
2007
9 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A pain in the heart, never-drying tears and turned heads are hard to treat, but fortunately not incurable. In X-ray images and tissue samples, on examination couches and in waiting rooms, always under medical supervision, Špela Čadež’s puppet animation studies the difficult-to-diagnose lovesickness. An animated physiological case study.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Špela Čadež
Script
Christina Zimmermann
Cinematographer
Špela Čadež
Editor
Eli Cortina Hidalgo
Producer
Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Score
Mateja Starić
Animation
Špela Čadež, Matej Lavrenčič, Oliver Thorm
Slowenian Animation 2022
Filmstill Mate to Measure
Mate to Measure
Špela Čadež
A hardworking tailer fulfils his customers’ wishes using every means his brain has to offer. But when he meets the love of his life, his thoughts get out of control.
Filmstill Mate to Measure

Mate to Measure

Zasukanec
Špela Čadež
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Germany,
Slovenia
2004
7 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Daily life at the tailor’s shop is so tumultuous that sometimes you need to cheat a little to cope. Imagination and spontaneity will not always be enough. When the tailer feels unobserved, he tends to let his brain do all the work. But what happens when love enters the scene and thoughts get out of control?

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Špela Čadež
Script
Špela Čadež
Cinematographer
Špela Čadež
Editor
Špela Čadež
Producer
Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Score
Mateja Starić
Animation
Špela Čadež
Filmstill Money and Happiness

Money and Happiness

Money and Happiness
Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Serbia,
Slovenia,
Slovakia
2022
10 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English

In Hamsterland, everybody is 100 percent happy. Their religion is statistics and the perfect employee is young, a team player and stress-resistant. Even the most mindless computer jobs and piece work drudgery are fun, without exception. Until one day something goes wrong after all and the mantras “think positive” and “follow your dreams” are temporarily silenced. An entertaining polemic on hyper capitalist, neoliberal societies that makes you smile.

Samuel Döring

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Director
Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak
Cinematographer
Nikola Majdak
Editor
Milina Trisic
Producer
Jelena Mitrović
Co-Producer
Tina Smrekar, Peter Badac
Sound
Julij Zornik
Score
Dusan Petrovich
Animation
Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak, Leon Vidmar
World Sales
Luce Grosjean
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Kids DOK 2022
Filmstill Mouse House
Mouse House
Timon Leder
Two mice discover a wheel of cheese. One of them flees from the cat, the other finds a way into this paradise. Every bite brings it closer to the collapse of its house …
Filmstill Mouse House

Mouse House

Mišja hiša
Timon Leder
Kids DOK 2022
Animated Film
Slovenia,
Croatia
2022
8 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Two mice discover a big wheel of cheese. Paradise, no less! But how to get in? One mouse has made it, its little brother is outside on his own and must watch out for the hungry cat. Inside the cheese wheel, the mouse lives like a king, eating its way through the yellow treat. But every bite brings it closer to the collapse of its house …

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Timon Leder
Editor
Maja Zupanc
Producer
Jure Vizjak, Maja Zupanc
Co-Producer
Jure Bušić
Sound
Julij Zornik
Score
Janez Dovč
Animation
Marica Kicusić, Tilen Javornik, Veronika Hozjan, Jošt Šeško