Slovenia - Best International Feature Film
Slovenian submissions for the Oscars for Best International Feature Film
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- DirectorFranci SlakStarsPetra ReharPetra GovcDusan SandakA young girl finds scattered envelops in a field, then a postman's satchel, then a hanged man. Jump 20 years: the girl, now grown, lives with her aunt and has a job with the post office only because her dead uncle was a respected party leader. She's subbing at a small station when a robber strikes. He takes the loose cash; after he leaves, she finds lots more money in a metal box. She takes it. Suspicious police assign Ivan, who's from the council, to follow her. He does, trying to seduce her nightly during his surveillance. She sees the thief again by accident and makes contact.
- DirectorAles VerbicStarsTanja DimitrievskaDamjana GrasicUrska HlebecA group of nine friends go to the mountains of Triglav in seek of Morana, goddess of death. And end up being killed one by one.
- DirectorBozo SprajcStarsDejan AcimovicIvo BanPeter BenedejcicThis is a film about ordinary civilians, who on June 26, 1991, the day when war broke out in former Yugoslavia, find themselves in Slovenia. The main character of the story is an 11-year-old boy, Felix, who is trapped together with his classmates and teacher Jasna in an unmoving column of vehicles on a high mountain road, because of army barricades. The heroes of the story are involuntarily caught between the two enemy military groups. On this day in June, many others find themselves on this road together with the pupils on their school bus - people from various European countries who are traveling south: Frenchmen, Italians, Hungarians, Germans, and, of course, Slovenians; a blend of different professions, nationalities and religions. All of them are individuals who, on a warm summer day, suddenly find themselves in the midst of war.
- DirectorAndrej KosakStarsDavor JanjicZijah SokolovicNina IvanicYugoslavia before Tito's death. A young guy born to a mixed marriage (Slovenian - Bosnian) trying to find himself and fit in society, falls in love with Slovenian woman.
- DirectorJan CvitkovicStarsPeter MusevskiSonja SavicTadej TrohaBecause of a doctor's strike, Ivan is released a day early from an alcoholic treatment program. He returns to his wife Sonja and his 16-year-old son Robi. His first afternoon at home is pleasant. The next morning, Sonja sends him to a shop to get bread and milk. On the way back Ivan runs into Armando, his high-school classmate, and through their conversation at a bar, Ivan finds out that long before Sonja became his wife, Armando spent a night with her. Ivan has his first drop of the hard stuff...Kruh in mleko is a bitter-sweet tale of loneliness, estrangement, and the glowing embers of love that once was a fire.
- DirectorAndrej KosakStarsJernej SugmanKsenija MisicUros PotocnikIn Yugoslavia's Livada prison in 1970, inmates led by Keber convince reluctant authorities to let them watch the televised Olympic final basketball game between the home country and the U.S., but taunting guards interrupt the viewing and prod the prisoners to the point of a riot. After a period of a kind of blissful anarchy where the inmates taste freedom, Keber enlists the house "intellectual" Mrak to devise a system of prisoner self-government aimed at forcing reforms on the state.
- DirectorDamjan KozoleStarsPeter MusevskiAljosa KovacicPrimoz PetkovsekEmbittered widower, Ludvik, spends his nights transporting illegal refugees in his van from Croatia, across Slovenia, and into Italy. The young and inexperienced Rudi acts as his helpmate. Together they become a well-trained duo who almost every night convey "spare parts" to Italy. Of course the story of their illegitimate exports into Europe ends tragically, for everyone. The whole idea of this account is that everyone - including ourselves - is looking for happiness: the "spare parts" because of the misery they are plunged into without, and our characters because they can't find it inside.
- DirectorMetod PevecStarsPolona JuhMarijana BreceljSasa TabakovicDusha is a young dancer and dance instructor. Torn between a dominant mother, an absent father and a married lover, she is sinking into a typical crisis of the thirties, which gets worse when she starts suspecting that someone has been following her and invading her privacy.
- DirectorJanez BurgerStarsDarko RundekNatasa MatjasecMatjaz TribusonA successful stage director plans to put on an outdoor production of a previously unknown play by a famous writer, but is haunted by his past in the form of the actors and crew with whom he has to work.
- DirectorJan CvitkovicStarsGregor BakovicDrago MilinovicSonja SavicPero is a professional funeral speaker in a small Slovenian town. His unique gift is to make every funeral that extra bit special. Pero just can't help turning his eulogies into witty personal confessions that bring the grieving crowd to tears for all the wrong reasons.
- DirectorJanez LapajneStarsTjasa ZeleznikGrega ZorcJernej SugmanAt night a city bus driver finds an abandoned baby near a stop. A divorced man comes to pick up his excited son for the weekend. A pretty doctor befriends a quadriplegic. Out of this unfolds a delicate story of human relationships, in which tough feelings of sympathy and guilt the protagonists are confronted with different ways of looking at events.
- DirectorMarko NabersnikStarsVlado NovákPrimoz BezjakPia ZemljicAfter being fired, young car mechanic Djuro gets recommendation to look for another job in a remote village. His new boss is warm, old-fashioned, and naive--completely opposite from the world he's coming from. The peaceful atmosphere is shaken when Djuro falls for a regular customer's wife.
- DirectorVinko ModerndorferStarsMarko MandicSlobodan CusticBarbara CerarThe burglars Sergej and Polde steal the valuable painting "Landscape No.2". By coincidence Sergej also takes a mysterious document dating back to the end of the World War II. Instructor is ordered to recover the stolen painting and the document, which triggers a diabolic mechanism of the past.
- DirectorIgor SterkStarsIgor SamoborSilva CusinLabina MitevskaA police inspector investigates an unusual suicide case. The investigation develops into an obsession, inspector starts living in the apartment of the deceased, digging through his life and gradually taking over his identity.
- DirectorJanez BurgerStarsLeon LucevRené BazinetPauliina RäsänenDescribed as a Slovenian war drama.Disqualified
- DirectorNejc GazvodaStarsLuka CimpricJure HenigmanNina RakovecThree friends embark on a road trip like in high school, but things have changed - Gregor is going to war mission, Ziva is going to study abroad, while Andrej is still the same. There are secrets left unsaid. Can their friendship survive?
- DirectorRok BicekStarsIgor SamoborNatasa Barbara GracnerTjasa ZeleznikRelations between the students and the new teacher of German are extremely tense. When one female student commits suicide, her schoolmates blame the teacher for her death. An awareness that things are not quite so black and white comes too late... (based on true events)
- DirectorMarko SanticStarsJanko MandicNina RakovecNatasa Barbara GracnerA pair of emotionally scarred 19-year-olds seek refuge from a harsh adult world in each other's arms. He has a juvenile detention behind him, she has a rapacious sexual appetite. As an escape, the pair are having hungry sex everywhere.
- DirectorSonja ProsencStarsKatarina StegnarJernej KogovsekLukas Matija Rosas UrsicThe Tree is a chamber piece drama that vivisects family values, almost like in ancient tragedies determined by doom.
- DirectorZiga VircStarsSlavoj ZizekJosip Broz TitoJohn F. KennedyExplores the myth of the secret multi-billion-dollar deal behind America's purchase of Yugoslavia's clandestine space program in the early 1960s.
- DirectorHanna Antonina Wojcik SlakStarsLeon LucevMarina RedzepovicZala Djuric2009, Slovenia, European Union. For 30 years, Alija, the miner, has been one of the many Bosnian immigrant workers. Due to the crisis, miners are losing jobs. Alija is sent to check an abandoned mine. His task is to quickly make sure the mine is empty before management sells the company. But in the mine, Alija finds hidden proof of executions after WWII. He is told to stop digging and report the mine empty. He decides to continue, although he is risking his job. Alija discovers thousands of executed people. He informs the police. He found women among the dead. Some of them were civilians, missing persons, just like his sister that was lost in the 1995 genocide in Bosnia. Alija is convinced the victims need to be brought out, identified and buried. But there is no interest in doing that. The mine is proclaimed a WWII military grave and walled in. The dead will stay without a burial. Alija loses his job and struggles to preserve his dignity. He is sure he was doing the right thing, in spite of the unemployment his family is now faced with. Based on a true story.
- DirectorJanez BurgerStarsMarusa MajerMatjaz TribusonNatasa Barbara GracnerCaught amid a violent corruption affair, a young woman is forced to make an impossible choice between the man she obsessively loves and her newborn son.
- DirectorSonja ProsencStarsDoroteja NadrahKristoffer JonerZita FuscoHearing disabled 17 year old Iva, her older brother and younger sister, has lost her mother in an accident, and the whole family is in agony, not making it easier when she finds out that her mother kept secrets from them.
- DirectorGregor BozicStarsMassimo De FrancovichIvana RoscicGiusi MerliIn a decaying forest on the Yugoslav-Italian border in the years after World War II, a stingy, old carpenter and a lonely, young chestnut seller share imaginative memories of the past as they weigh fateful decisions for the future, in this touching homage to a lost way of life.
- DirectorMiroslav MandicStarsSandi PavlinSilva CusinBoris CavazzaA love story in which fragmented memories are brought back to mind by a song.