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- DirectorTomaz MoricStarsDemeter BitencBlaz BrancJanez DobravecBorn in 1978, in Jesenice, Slovenia. Film started to interest him in his secondary school years. He is a student at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. In his spare time he makes amateur short films. After a seminar organized by the Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities, he drafted the outline for his first feature film project (Deseta zapoved, 2003).
- DirectorAndrej MlakarStarsLudvik BagariLjerka BelakKristjan BorovsakA tragedy looms for a young Gypsy violinist whose half brother is in the throes of first love.
- DirectorJan BilodjericStarsKaja BilodjericSimon BregAndrej KrcekTadej and Lana, a young couple, are struggling through the world of drugs, dealers, addicts and prostitution. He is addicted to heroin and she is trying to help her boyfriend. When she realizes that all her efforts are in vain she becomes so desperate that she decides to take heroin herself in order to show Tadej how weak he is. Unfortunately the drug is stronger then her too and a year later she finds herself in the same situation. Now they are both in continuous search for daily fix. They owe vast sums of money to the drug dealers, she starts selling her body and their life becomes constant hell. They are sinking deeper and deeper in the cruel reality of lost opportunities and utopian wishes. There is only one end of their story; hitting the bottom of society and below. The script was based on various true stories of drug addicts. So the film was shot almost in documentary manners, because our goal was to build up an authentic reflection of a life and death of an average heroin addict.
- 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.
- DirectorKlemen DvornikStarsNika RozmanNina IvanisinMatej PucYoung lawyer Rebeka is given a case involving the murder of a production designer, and the main suspect is her childhood friend Jana. What first seems like a very straightforward case gradually reveals the dark sides, mysterious depths and stray ways of human nature.
- DirectorJanez BurgerStarsIvo BanJanez BurgerLuka CimpricThe newest tycoon Robert wants to gets his hands on the land where the driving school stands and build a modern shopping center in it's place instead. It is during this acquisition that lands him in an altercation with Instructor Joze, whose wife left him and Robert's daughter Lija. Lija is determined to go to driving school in spite of his father's prohibition. Besides the tense that portray the ruthlessness of our world, the story offers a range of warm and interesting human relationships seen as part of our everyday lives.
- DirectorSamir BajricStarsDajnomir GorjanecSasa Pavlin StosicSamir BajricDue to psychological issues with performing his secret mission the undercover detective visits a private psychiatrist and tells her about the reason for his visit. When she thinks the detective is just another ordinary patient with a need for a "cathartic" conversation and discussing his heady action detective experience, she realizes he's a much more complicated case, a case she might not be able to take in her stride.
- 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.
- DirectorMitja OkornStarsAdnan OmerovicToni CahunekKlemen BucanFour local boys borrow a lot of money from the local mafia. Incompedent as they are, they loose the money. They have to think of infinite ways to earn and return the amount. In seven days...
- DirectorDamjan KozoleStarsPia ZemljicJernej SugmanMarko MandicOne night, a high-profile attorney is found on the pavement along a main road through Ljubljana. He is barely conscious, lying in a pool of blood, and covered in dog bites. Doctors at the medical center fight to keep him alive while his wife, in shock, confronts her deepest fears. During the course of this night she will break every moral standard she has stood up for in her life.
- DirectorMarko NabersnikStarsVisar VishkaAsli BayramSenad BasicLutvija Belmondo Mirga narrates a story about four generations. Belmondo is the central character of the film, a gypsy king who decides to establish his own gypsy village and names it Shanghai. Belmondo makes a living smuggling, and his power and influence grows. He even gets the local police and politics on his side, which helps him become untouchable by law. But with Yugoslavia's downfall, arms smuggling replaces goods smuggling. Though lucrative, the business starts to threaten Belmondo's personal life and he finds himself at a crossroads. Will he protect his own family or sacrifice his personal happiness for business ambitions? Shanghai Gypsy is a story about longing for happiness; it is a story about love and family ties, in which tears are intertwined with laughs. The story is set in the time of Yugoslavia's downfall and shot int the authentic Romani language.