Film Archive

Jahr

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.
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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
Slowenian Animation 2022
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
Slowenian Animation 2022
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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
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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 Nighthawk

Nighthawk

Nočna ptica
Špela Čadež
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Slovenia,
Croatia
2016
9 minutes
Slovenian
Subtitles: 
English

A drunken drive through the night with a badger at the wheel. The car radio is a crooning, rhythmic companion and rhythm generator to the reeling road, the will-o’-the-wisp headlights of oncoming cars. The beginning becomes the end of a bizarre journey that turns our heads not by speed but by narrative sophistication in visually magnificent concentration.

André Eckardt

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Director
Špela Čadež
Script
Gregor Zorc, Špela Čadež
Editor
Iva Kraljević
Producer
Tina Smrekar, Špela Čadež, Vanja Andrijević
Sound
Johanna Wienert
Score
Tomaž Grom
Animation
Zarja Menart, Špela Čadež, Matej Lavrenčič
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Steakhouse

Steakhouse
Špela Čadež
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Slovenia,
Germany,
France
2021
10 minutes
Slovenian
Subtitles: 
English

Coupledom has its own dynamics. Her professional obligations do not tick by the clock, his cooking and love are extraordinary, but, alas, precisely timed. This all too familiar incompatibility is condensed into murky, acrid roast fumes. What was intended as a pleasant evening for two ends civilized, but bloody: black humour, “well done”.

André Eckardt

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Director
Špela Čadež
Script
Gregor Zorc
Cinematographer
Špela Čadež
Editor
Iva Kraljević
Producer
Tina Smrekar, Špela Čadež
Co-Producer
Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Fabian Driehorst
Sound
Johanna Wienert
Score
Olfamož, Tomaž Grom
Animation
Špela Čadež, Anka Kočevar, Zarja Menart, Clémentine Robach
World Sales
Luce Grosjean
Slowenian Animation 2022
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The Beezes: Cherries
Grega Mastnak
The Beezes are feathered but not very airworthy creatures. With summer comes their appetite for cherries. But how to reach them when evolution keeps you on the ground?
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The Beezes: Cherries

Bizgeci: Češnje
Grega Mastnak
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Slovenia
2003
5 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

The Beezes are feathered but not very airworthy creatures, situated somewhere between primates and birds on the evolutionary ladder. Their appetite for cherries grows as soon as summer has arrived. But they are hanging so high in the trees that they are out of reach. Undeterred, the Beezes try to overcome the limits of their biological evolutionary stage – a gaudy affair.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Grega Mastnak
Script
Grega Mastnak, Peter Povh
Editor
Istok Jan Simončič
Producer
Igor Pediček
Sound
Vojko Sfiligoj
Score
Vojko Sfiligoj, Ana Pupedan
Animation
Grega Mastnak, Vladimir Leben, Boštjan Franc Avguštin, Tina Avšič
Slowenian Animation 2022
Filmstill The Box
The Box
Dušan Kastelic
A parable about outgrowing oneself: With the sophisticated, horror movie like aesthetics of his parable, Dušan Kastelic defined new quality standards for 3D computer animations.
Filmstill The Box

The Box

Celica
Dušan Kastelic
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Slovenia
2017
13 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Life in the box is wretched – until a creature begins to grow that’s different from its flat-headed roommates: It sings and gets excited. A nuisance, the others think. But the boy continues to grow until he towers over all of them … With the sophisticated, horror movie like aesthetics of his parable, Dušan Kastelic defined new quality standards for 3D computer animations.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Dušan Kastelic
Script
Dušan Kastelic
Editor
Dušan Kastelic
Producer
Dušan Kastelic
Sound Design
Mateja Starić
Score
Mateja Starić
Animation
Dušan Kastelic
Slowenian Animation 2022
Filmstill Wanted
Wanted
Boris Dolenc
An animated folkloristic Western, using clichés, local stereotypes and national myths to sketch a kind of satirical profile of “wild” Slovenia.
Filmstill Wanted

Wanted

Wanted
Boris Dolenc
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Slovenia
2012
10 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

An animated folkloristic Western, using clichés, local stereotypes and national myths to sketch a kind of satirical profile of “wild” Slovenia, its colourful costumes and strange customs. Boris Dolenc has adapted a cartoon by Vladan Nikolić, who in turn drew on the motifs and visual language of the painted beehive boards typical of Slovenia.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Boris Dolenc
Script
Sandra Ržen
Editor
Boris Dolenc
Producer
Eva Rohrmann
Co-Producer
Jure Vizjak, Jaka Oman
Sound
Julij Zornik, Igor Iskra, Jure Strajnak, Peter Žerovnik, Samo Jurca
Score
Filip Šijanec
Animation
Jernej Žmitek
Slowenian Animation 2022
Filmstill Weasel
Weasel
Timon Leder
A hungry weasel wants to hunt the last remaining birds in a tree. The tree sways, the stomach growls, the weasel persists until it’s too late.
Filmstill Weasel

Weasel

Podlasica
Timon Leder
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Slovenia
2016
12 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A hungry and solitary weasel roams the dry landscape, intent on hunting the last remaining birds in a tree. The birds try to keep the tree in balance while the weasel doggedly climbs its trunk. The tree sways, the stomach growls, the weasel persists until it’s too late. A classic anti-hero cartoon – not just for children.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Timon Leder
Editor
Liezete Upite
Producer
Jure Vizjak
Sound Design
Mateja Starić, Julij Zornik, 100 d.o.o.
Score
Mateja Starić, Matija Krivec
Animation
Timon Leder, Zarja Menart, Lea Vučko