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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
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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
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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
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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
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Playing Men

Playing Men
Matjaž Ivanišin
Focus: Post-1991 Slovenian Documentary Films 2023
Documentary Film
Slovenia,
Croatia
2017
60 minutes
Italian,
German,
Croatian,
Slovenian
Subtitles: 
English

A film about men and games, somewhere in the Mediterranean, directed by a Slovenian master of the playful, somewhere between speculative and pseudo-documentary form. Oily bodies in a wrestling match, hooking fingers, a wheel of cheese rolled through a village – all these are archaic occupations of the utmost importance. The filmmaker meticulously captures the events until he is overcome by a major creative block. From now on, he will experience his surroundings as part of the game. Childhood memories and the footage of the unfinished film project merge seamlessly into an ode to the absurdity of the gesture.

Simon Popek

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Director
Matjaž Ivanišin
Script
Matjaž Ivanišin
Cinematographer
Gregor Božič
Editor
Matic Drakulić
Producer
Marina Gumzi, Vanja Jambrovic, Tibor Keser
Sound Design
Borna Buljević
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Slices of Time

Rezine časa
Neven Korda Andrič, Zemira Alajbegović Pečovnik
Focus: Post-1991 Slovenian Documentary Films 2023
Documentary Film
Slovenia
2001
60 minutes
Slovenian
Subtitles: 
English

A wonderful example of a TV documentary that transcends the limitations of the TV screen. “Slices of Time” tells the story of two women born during the First World War who saw the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy collapse and a new state form: Yugoslavia. The two grandmothers of the author Zemira Alajbegović Pečovnik lived in different cultural and religious spheres – one in predominantly Muslim Bosnia, the other in Christian-influenced Slovenia – and yet were connected through their children and grandchildren. Global and personal history, childhood, love and wars intertwine.

Simon Popek

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Director
Neven Korda Andrič, Zemira Alajbegović Pečovnik
Script
Zemira Alajbegović Pečovnik
Producer
Zavod ZANK
Co-Producer
VPK - Videoprodukcija Kregar
Score
Aldo Ivančič