 Sept 17 - Sept 22

 Maribor

A selection of twenty topical documentary films will be screened at Dokudoc, the annual international festival of documentary film in Maribor.

The main programme of the festival will open on 19 September with a screening of a documentary on Slovenian pre-Christian beliefs by Ema Kugler, Once Upon a Time in Posočje.

Even before that the Maribor Diving Association will hold an evening of diving films on 17 September at Gustaf Hall, and Nikola Tesla: Waves of the Future will premiere the next day in Maribox.

Director Janja Glogovac said she worked on her Tesla film for almost ten years, which involved a lot of research and fact-checking. "I was particularly interested in who this mysterious man was, what he did and why he was erased from history for a certain period of time," she said.

The main programme of the festival is taking place at the Maribor Puppet Theatre between 19 and 22 September. The films deal with a variety of topics.

Green Skiing by Haidy Kancler is about the impact of climate change on Slovenian ski slopes, which are being turned into mountain bike parks, while The Flag by Miha Mohorič talks about the LGBTIQ+ community.

In Newsreel 242 - Sunny Streaks director Nika Autor deals with youth brigades that worked on various infrastructure projects in the former Yugoslavia, and The Other Side of the Pipe by Marko Kumer Murč depicts the fight against the Southern Gas Corridor, while Ć by Boris Petkovič deals with the erased.

The audience will also see the premiere of Last Cowboy, Tadej Čater's documentary about an eternal dreamer from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hari Džekson, and Gram of Heart, a film by Jan Cvitkovič that follows drug addicts on the streets of Ljubljana.

The festival will wrap up with a screening of Body in which director Petra Seliškar documents the life of her close friend struggling with rare autoimmune diseases.

A retrospective of films by director and screenwriter Slavko Hren as chosen by himself will be screened on 22 September as the festival honours him with an award. An international jury will pick the winning film from the documentaries in the competition programme.