Filmography
![[P]After the war, during the socialist five-year plan, a radio station sends a group of young musicians to various locations - to the worksites of labor brigades, agricultural cooperatives, and construction sites. Their task is to boost morale among the people. While attempting to entertain crowds with their music, the young musicians find themselves in an unusual situation: they must undergo re-education to become conscious youths, as their jazz and boogie music genre is labeled as imperialistic. The group's leader is Maks, a seasoned heartbreaker whose future depends on the success of the tour. They embark on their journey in a rickety bus, and the tragicomic narrative reveals the dynamics between art, politics, and everyday life in post-war society.[/P] [P]The film has been digitally restored in 2024 by the Slovenian Cinematheque in collaboration with the Slovenian Film Archive and the Slovenian Film Center.[/P]](/img/2024042615173332/mid/image_105842_2.jpg?m=1714137454)
Red Boogie
Karpo Godina
1982
Yugoslavia/Slovenia
![[P]A young couple from Slovenia is traveling to Italy. He is a merchant, she is an actress in Trieste. When their car breaks down just before the border in Kreplje, their happiness faces an unexpected obstacle. During a half-hour dialogue, various emotions and dilemmas accompanying a significant decision are revealed. This poignant portrait focuses on confronting life's challenges and encourages the audience to reflect on their own responsibilities and values.[/P]](/img/2024042616081559/mid/BEAUTIFUL_KREPLJE_ENG.00_25_15_01.Still008.jpeg?m=1714140496)
Beautiful Kreplje
Dario Frandolič
2000
Slovenia
![[P]During the fascist occupation, when the use of the Slovenian language was forbidden, a Slovenian married couple decided to teach their son only the Italian language. The son grew up as an Italian citizen in Italy. When getting old, however, the mother became ill, slipped into regression and forgot everything but the most deeply rooted memories. She also forgot the Italian language for that reason.[/P]](/img/2024042912410545/mid/MOJI_MATERI_ITA.00_02_54_12.Still001.jpeg?m=1714387265)
To My Mother
Gregor Božič
2005
Slovenia
![[P]A documentary about Jože Dolmark, an individual with a diverse range of interests and talents – he is an art historian, connoisseur of film and photography, a literature and film critic, cineaste, screenwriter and brilliant pedagogue and professor. The film introduces Dolmark in an intimate, anecdotal and political manner. [/P]](/img/2024050308480530/mid/thanje_pogledov2.jpeg?m=1714718887)
A Man From The Border
Boris Jurjaševič
2017
Slovenia
![[P]The film follows the parallel stories of two young Dalmatians: Habsburg officer Emidio Orlich deserts in the winter of 1916 to fight alongside the Italians against Austria; in the summer of 1941, Lieutenant Franco Velich of the Italian army returns to his birth island, which is also Emidio's birthplace. He returns as an Italian officer recovering from battles in North Africa. The island, once part of Yugoslavia, is now occupied by the Italian army, a situation Franco experiences uncomfortably. While staying on the island, he clashes with Emidio's mother and niece, whose story was told to him by Simeone, a wise old man who looks at the current situation with detachment, but with little hope. The film explores the issue of identity as something violently imposed.[/P]](/img/2024042916542251/mid/letni_kino_sf_la_frontiera_3.jpg?m=1714402463)
The Border
Franco Giraldi
1996
Italy
![[P]The poignant short documentary film Karst, the directorial debut of the "border" director Franco Giraldi, is dedicated to his homeland. Although he grew up in Trieste, he was born in the Karst hinterland, in Komen. Giuseppe Pinori - later the cinematographer for Nanni Moretti, Marco Tullio Giordana, and the Taviani brothers - captures the arduous daily work of fishermen and farmers in the small village of Santa Croce/Sveti Križ through unforgettable images. This village, squeezed between Tito's Yugoslavia and the slopes overlooking the Gulf of Trieste, is rapidly declining. Callisto Cosulich, an established critic from Trieste who also emigrated to Rome, contributed the connecting text. This precious lyrical short film, shot during the Christmas holidays of 1959, heralds the director's poetic style in later years and tells us about a land that is not generous to its people and their work, nestled between the sea and the sky, albeit far from the perception we have of it today.[/P]](/img/2024042914051248/mid/Il_carso_Franco_Giraldi.jpg?m=1714392313)
Karst
Franco Giraldi
1960
Italy
![[P]»There was a period in Gorizia, my hometown, where every night many migrants continued to pass through. Dozens would arrive each night, only to be swallowed up by the big cities by morning. For some time, a very ugly thought had been stuck in my mind. So, I imagined a woman, perhaps elderly, one like others, one of those who see, or who stand and watch. One who noticed them. Noticed their passing beneath her window. A story devoid of psychological intricacies to launch a challenge to the indifference and thoughts of many ‘normal’ people who hide and spy on humanity from within their own kitchens.« Matteo Oleotto[/P]](/img/2024042914194919/mid/PASSERANNO_ANCHE_STANOTTE_NO_SUB.00_04_01_10.Still012.png?m=1714393190)
They'll Be Crossing Tonight
Matteo Oleotto
2002
Slovenia
![[P]The short film was created within the framework of the project of the same name, aimed at exploring tools to understand the turbulent legacy of the 20th century, specifically the period between the two World Wars. It charts the path from understanding the past to comprehending the present, emphasizing the importance of speaking rather than remaining silent, and encouraging courage and openness in dialogue as keys to resolving conflicts and cohabitation.[/P]](/img/2024042916164251/mid/War_of_Words_or_Respectful_Silence__Leo_C__ernic_1.png?m=1714400203)
War of Words or Respectful Silence?
Leo Černic
2020
Slovenia
![[P]The documentary is a diary, an intimate story that merely observes the daily life of the director and many residents of the Gorizia area. The story of a territory trying to overcome its past is unfolding, although some historical questions have not yet been fully resolved.[/P]](/img/2024042916321918/mid/nevidni_zidovi_3.png?m=1714401139)
(In)visible Walls
Giulio de Paolis
2023
Slovenia, Italy
![[P]»A customs office building on the border between two towns, two countries, two social systems, two worlds, the Romanic and the Slavic, 65 years after the end of the war. On the 20th of December with the entry of Slovenia into the Schengen area, Nova Gorica for the first time in its short history finds itself without border fences. The same night, this traumatic space transforms into a meeting place. Inside are placed a camera, a microphone, a computer, and a curtain and people from both sides of the border start streaming in, bringing their stories and images, donating their contributions to the common holdings of memory. Donated memories and fragments of family and archive films tell how can two different realities find themselves simultaneously in the same place.« Anja Medved[/P]](/img/2024042915562361/mid/Spovednica_tihotacev_slo-ita_2.00_15_02_10.Still001.jpeg?m=1714398983)
Smugglers' Confessionary
Anja Medved
2010
Slovenia
![[P]According to the Paris Peace Treaty in 1947, Istrian Pula belonged to Yugoslavia. The vast majority of Italians living there begin to leave the city, although the Yugoslav authorities try to keep as many of them as possible by flattery. A young worker, Berto, gets caught in a net and, despite the pleas of his wife, who is worried about the future of their son, decides to go to Yugoslavia, hoping to become the owner of the workshop where he works. But he soon bitterly regrets the decision he made. The machines are confiscated by the Yugoslav government and the town, which soon becomes half-empty, no longer offers good opportunities for earning money. Thanks to the intervention of a Yugoslav official of the Communist Party, Bert manages to get his wife and child, who needs treatment, to Trieste. Life is getting harder and the socialist paradise is becoming a real hell for the main character. He opposes the regime, so he is arrested and sent to a concentration camp, from which Bert manages to escape. Wandering, he reaches the shore, where he finds a boat. He quickly rows towards the Italian coast, but his hope is extinguished by a burst of Yugoslav machine guns...[/P]](/img/2023040408040612/mid/La_citta_dolente.jpg?m=1680588247)
City of pain
Mario Bonnard
1948
Italy
![[P]The first Slovenian sound feature film was based on the novella and screenplay by Ciril Kosmač. The story takes place during the last two years of the liberation struggle in Primorska. The inhabitants of the typical coastal village suffered Italian occupation and later German occupation since the Treaty of Rapala after the First World War. For them, resistance is an opportunity to break free from foreign domination. The film is both a war film about the partisan struggle and also a film that shows a village and its inhabitants who unitedly supported this struggle.[/P]](/img/2023040408075351/mid/Na-svoji-zemlji_02.jpg?m=1680588473)
On our land
France Štiglic
1948
Yugoslavia/Slovenia
![[P]Crime writer Holly Martins travels to post-war Vienna, divided into four zones, where he was invited by his old friend Harry Lime. But immediately after arriving, Holly realizes that his friend is dead. The death seems suspicious to Holly and his investigation leads him into the dark mysteries of a corrupt underworld. The film was based on the work of the same name by Graham Greene, who also wrote the screenplay. An undisputed classic and a film noir that is among the most recognizable of all time.[/P]](/img/2023040407500920/mid/Il_terzo_uomo.jpg?m=1680587412)
The Third Man
Carol Reed
1949
United Kingdom
![[P]After World War II, in a village on the border between Italy and Yugoslavia, a special demarcation commission draws a line that will divide the village in half. In a few hours, the villagers will have to decide whether they will be Italians or Yugoslavs. This causes many hardships for people. One of the farmers has a house on one side of the border and a field on the other. The young man’s love lives in the other half of the settlement. The children are from all over the village and even they do not accept such changes.[/P]](/img/2023040407573885/mid/Cuori_senza_frontiere__Luigi_Zampa__1950.jpg?m=1681913422)
Boundless hearts
Luigi Zampa
1950
Italy
![[P]The Second World War is slowly coming to an end, but in Trieste, under the German occupation, the Slovenian-Italian resistance is still simmering and the people are preparing for an open uprising with the help of Yugoslav partisans. The leader of the rebellion is the communist Borut, and the feistiest rebel is Karlo, who defends the annexation of Trieste to the new Yugoslavia with all his might. In the shipyard, some workers are arrested for sabotage and some of them are hanged by the Germans in the street. The Italian police officers, who now realize that the Germans will lose the war, are fleeing the city en masse. Karlo calls the workers together in the shipyard and orders them to strike. Borut, who is hiding with one of the rebels, Vida, is pursued by the police, but escapes at the last moment. Vida is not so lucky, as she is arrested and tortured in prison. Rebels distribute weapons to the workers and they clash with German soldiers in the city. Partisans finally appear in Trieste and are welcomed by the people as liberators.[/P]](/img/2023040407592334/mid/Trst_Stiglic.jpg?m=1680587966)
Trieste
France Štiglic
1951
Yugoslavia/Slovenia
![[P]The poignant short documentary Kras, the directorial debut of director "from the border" Franco Giraldi, is dedicated to his home environment. Although he grew up in Trieste, he was born in the karst hinterland, in Komen. This precious lyrical short film foreshadows the poetics of the director in his mature years and tells us about a land that is not generous to people and their work and is stuck between the sea and the sky, even though it is far from the idea we have about it today.[/P]](/img/2023050316222314/mid/carso.jpg?m=1683123744)
Karst
Franco Giraldi
1960
Italy
![[P]The short documentary film by director and screenwriter Mako Sajko focuses on what happened on and along the Yugoslav-Italian border in the 1960s. It describes life and friendly neighborly relations in a border area where the exchange of goods between the two countries takes place almost unhindered in a humorous and light-hearted manner. The documentary dispels myths about the impenetrable and strict border between the then Eastern and Western blocs, which over the years has been called the "Iron Curtain".[/P]](/img/2023071114453752/mid/Mako.jpg?m=1689079538)
Where is the iron curtain?
Mako Sajko
1961
Yugoslavia/Slovenia
![[P]Trieste 1948 is a collection of testimonies that investigate the effects of the Informbiro on the Communist Party in Trieste. Stalin's Informbiro was the body that officially approved the expulsion of the Yugoslav Communist Party and thus its split from other communist workers' parties in Europe. In the background, the city of Trieste is still under Anglo-American military administration. In the collection of testimonies, Giraldi recreates the dramatic events of 1948 and emphasizes from the beginning that he only wanted to encourage historical reflection on these facts with his work.[/P]](/img/2023040408145596/mid/x_trieste_-_trst_1948_giraldi.png?m=1680588898)
Trst 1948
Franco Giraldi
1982
Italy
![[P]The film explores the making of Carol Reed's The Third Man, which has become a timeless noir classic. It is the first documentary about the popular film, in which Anglo-Austrian director Frederick Baker takes viewers on a journey by following the footsteps of Graham Greene's literary proposal, separating fact from fiction about the film's creation. The documentary literally recreates Reed's film in the original Viennese locations.[/P]](/img/2023040408164699/mid/x_shadowing_the_third_man_-_po_sledeh_tretjega___loveka.jpg?m=1680589006)
Following the footsteps of The Third Man
Frederick Baker
2005
United kingdom, Austria, France, Japan, USA
![[P]After the end of the Second World War, the towns along the western Slovenian border were occupied by the allied army for two years. The border zone became known as Zone A. The Americans, the English, the New Zealanders, even the Indians managed the so-called Zone A of the Morgan Line from Trieste across the Karst to Predel, before the peace conference in London in February 1947 determined the true demarcation line between Italy and Yugoslavia. The documentary talks about encounters with extravagance and democracy, about Coca-Cola and chewing gum, which together with jazz occupied the Soča Valley, about the time of great prosperity, as well as fierce demonstrations for annexation to Yugoslavia, and through the accounts of living witnesses and young historians, it recreates that time at the end of the Second World War, when girls danced swing in the evening and wrote on the walls of houses at night: THEIRS WE DON’T WANT, OURS WE DON’T GIVE![/P]](/img/2023040408112576/mid/non-vogliamo-il-pane-bianco.jpg?m=1680588685)
We don't want white bread
Jasna Hribernik
2009
Slovenia
![[P]Through interviews and archival images, the film talks about life in Trieste during the years of the Allied Military Administration (1945-1954). The faces and stories of the children who played baseball in the suburban markets at the time and the girls who found jobs with their moderate knowledge of English. In the background, American flags fly and Studebaker cars drive through the city. These are the voices from the time of black and white Trieste, which was suddenly flooded by the colors of America and swing after the war.[/P]](/img/2023040408133359/mid/x_i_nostri_giorni_americani_-_our_american_days_chiara_barbo.jpg?m=1680588813)
Our American Days
Chiara Barbo, Andrea Magnani
2014
Italy