Once Were Humans

Once Were Humans 2021

1

Leo is an Italian who lives in Slovenia. Vučko is a Bosnian who arrived to Slovenia as a child refugee. Leo continues to stay in Slovenia because of his ex-wife Tanja and his son Luka, hoping that they can become a family again. When the bank refuses to grant a loan Leo and Vučko would need to renovate their restaurant, they have no choice but to accept an offer from Gianni, a swindler. They are tasked with stealing Gianni’s truck so that he can collect the insurance money. However, instead of stealing Gianni’s truck, Leo and Vučko mistakenly steal a truck full of refugees. Vučko the refugee and Leo the migrant themselves thus inadvertently become responsible for destinies of people similarly unfortunate as they had once been. In order to solve their financial problems, they decide to sell the refugees. At first it seems that they are not indifferent towards these people, but with each passing day there is less and less humanity left in Leo and Vučko.

2021

Man with Shadow

Man with Shadow 2019

1

Humans' biggest delusion is their illusion of freedom. Newborns have no choice, they are brought into this world regardless of their will, groomed as utterly powerless beings to submit to the social norms imposed by those in the position of power - But what if there is an alternative?

2019

My Last Year as a Loser

My Last Year as a Loser 2019

7.20

Špela graduated in Art History and has never had a steady job. Unlike her two best friends, who have moved out of Slovenia years ago with no plans to return, she is determined to stay in Ljubljana. When even her longtime boyfriend gets a job abroad she moves back in with her parents and her grandma. But Špela wants to grow up and cut the cord instead of delaying her already well overdue adulthood any longer.

2019

Music Is the Art of Time 2, LP film Buldozer – Spit Truth Into the Eyes

Music Is the Art of Time 2, LP film Buldozer – Spit Truth Into the Eyes 2017

8.80

In Varja Mocnik's documentary, members of former Yugoslav rock band Buldozer, their friends and fans reminisce about the time of the release of the band's debut album Pljuni istini u oci (1975). Their accounts interlace with fictitious scenes, the record artwork, archive material and animation, to ultimately come together into an inventive, surrealist film that speaks not just of the legendary album, but also of the society and reality of the time.

2017

Jaws of Life

Jaws of Life 2023

1

An intimate domestic drama about a family of lawyers adjusting to life following their oldest daughter's car accident - as their youngest daughter is about to leap into the world as a ballerina.

2023

Riders

Riders 2022

1

Slovenia, the spring of 1999. Two friends from a small village decide to transform their mopeds into choppers and embark on a journey. Looking for freedom and love, they travel through dreams of the past and visions of the future. Driven by mad impulses and haunted by the conservative moulds of traditions, they start believing and understanding things previously unimaginable. On the road through Slovenia and Croatia - two countries that have just recently seceded from Yugoslavia - they are accompanied by a young runaway woman with a mysterious past and an old biker who has seen the world in search of freedom but has still not found it. They challenge themselves and each other through shared experiences, severing their ties with and conceptions of the old and thus making way for the new.

2022

Kaj + Ester Forever

Kaj + Ester Forever 2023

1

Ester is happy to be starting high school, but trouble begins when she discovers that her ex-boyfriend Kaj has also enrolled in school with the goal of getting back together. With all her peers supporting Kaj, Ester befriends Vanda and they pretend to be a couple to win acceptance from classmates and Vanda's parents. The plan works at first, but their newly awakened emotions soon start to complicate things.

2023

Sisters

Sisters 2021

4.00

Three best friends, sworn virgins, get into a fight with local boys. When things get rough, they are saved by a girl in the making.

2021

Hole

Hole 1970

1

Kevin and Mia are con artists, a kind of modern Bonnie & Clyde, who seduce and rob women, the rich, divorcees and widows. Kevin's enormous sexual appetite and Mia's morbid jealousy lead to the robbery of the rich seductress Emma. Believing that they have killed her, they drive deep into a remote forest where they plan to bury her body. While they are digging a cave, Ema wakes up and runs away, Kevin and Mia go after her. A game of cat and mouse begins, a struggle for life and death, but nothing is as it seems at first glance.

1970

I Am

I Am 2017

1

It's not time for revolutions, It's time for individuals, you just have to have the courage.

2017

Farewell

Farewell 2016

1

Childhood memories of fishing with grandpa grow so vivid they visit the protagonist's present experience.

2016

Koyaa – Freezing Scarf

Koyaa – Freezing Scarf 2017

4.00

Koyaa is getting ready to step outside into a cold winter day. He tries to grab his scarf off the clothes stand, but it slithers away like a snake, acting silly! Will Koyaa manage to grab it?

2017

Parent-Teacher Conference

Parent-Teacher Conference 2018

1

Fran is a newcomer art teacher at a primary school who struggles communicating with his students' parents while also actively avoiding communicating with his girlfriend Medina.

2018

Apoptosis

Apoptosis 2017

1

It is 2074. Utter pollution of the Earth. Lack of food. Collapse of governments and all systems. Control is assumed by the Bionet corporation, promising a brighter future based on their product, Biogreen. Countries become sectors under the administration of Bionet. Each inhabitant is implanted a chip revealing their personal information as well as financial situation. Control is executed by special sector offices operating under Bionet. The time has come for the final solution.

2017

The Tree

The Tree 2014

6.50

A family finds itself in a dead-end situation. They are only safe behind the walls of their own house and yard. As time vanishes from their home, the shelter slowly turns into a prison. However, nothing can keep the children from dreaming and yearning to be free and the urge to make a decision seems inevitable.

2014

Sports Day

Sports Day 2024

1

Lucian (13) would like to fit in. He doesn’t want to be ridiculed, so he decides to go skiing for sports day even though he can’t ski at all. One lie leads to another, and finally to a flurry of untruths that put Lucian in an unbearable situation he can’t escape from.

2024

Koyaa – Trippy Trashcan

Koyaa – Trippy Trashcan 2019

1

Koyaa is painting a wooden chair. He notices he got some of the blue paint on the trashcan, too. He tries wiping the stain but that just smears it around, so he decides to paint the whole can blue instead. The can resists, rolling off on its little wheels, racing and chomping, as it goes, on the newspaper Mr Raven was using to build his birdhouse. Koyaa needs a clever way to catch it!

2019