 Oct 22 2024 - Oct 27 2024

 Portorož

The 27th Festival of Slovenian Film will see 72 films in the running for awards, including 13 feature-length films. Six of those are documentaries and two are docufiction.

An additional overview programme will feature 27 films, including Žiga Kukovič's Gepack, an independent production about a summer adventure of four male friends, which met with good response from cinema audiences.

The five live-action films include Sonja Prosenc's Family Therapy, which premiered at the Tribeca film festival in New York in June, and This Is a Robbery! by Gregor Andolšek about a kidnapping of a director of an insurance company.

Matevž Jerman and Jurij Meden's documentary Ali je Bilo Kaj Avantgardnega? (Was There Anything Avant-Garde?) deals with the history of the Slovenian experimental film, and Dva Brata, Dve Sestri (Two Brothers, Two Sisters) by Miha Čelar with the Slovenian war trauma.

Slobodan Maksimović's Praslovan is a biography of singer and song-writer Zoran Predin, while Nina Blažin explores the different aspects of life and death in V Tišini Življenja (In the Silence of Life).

Maja Weiss's Snatched from the Source focuses on the stories of four Slovenians who were taken from their parents as babies during WWII and subjected to the Nazi Lebensborn experiment.

The two docu-fictions are Kino Volta by Martin Turk, a hommage to Trieste's cinematography history, and Nekoč v Posočju (Once Upon a Time in Posočje) by Ema Kugler, presenting Slovenian pre-Christian beliefs and an oral folk tradition in the western Posočje region.

The festival will also see three children's and youth films, including Block 5, an action adventure movie by Klemen Dvornik about a group of 12-year-olds fighting to prevent their playground from being turned into a parking lot.

Čao Bela (Ciao Bela) by Jani Sever is a story about a teenager who starts her band, and Tartinijev Ključ (Tartini's Key) by Vinci Vogue Anžlovar follows summer adventures of three children from different social backgrounds who all meet at the seaside.