Movies: Demeter Bitenc

Urbanity is finally erased by mythical rituals, which is determined by the very title of the video film: menhir, an upright stone block from the Neolithic, which was used for sacral rites. Man and woman are Adam and Eve, created in front of us by ele...

The rich history of famous Slovenian ski jump and its present-day use....

Some years before WWI, art historian and priest Ciril from Ljubljana and his friend Fritz set out on a journey through Italy. Ciril hopes that his doctorate on Italian art would provide him inner peace, thus starting a new life. Emotionally disturbed...

Composer and pianist Blaz Gaber lives only for his music and does not want to know anything about the outside world, where the war is raging. Upon his arrival from his poorly attended concert, he finds himself in prison for having stars drawn in his ...

Summer of 1972, a small group of fanatical Croatian nationalists, trained and equipped by extreme emigrant organizations, infiltrated the territory of former Yugoslavia with intent to organize an uprising against Tito's regime. This series, very loos...

For the End of Time is a film about the mind… a film about the body and our inability to merge these two entities which are shaping a form of civilization known under the term “human”. A human is not a being unto itself. A human is a construct… a civ...

A young doctor saves head secretary from a group of hired murderers and frees her from suspicion....

This video features no words, only music and images. Ema Kugler describes the moving images as: “They are like a dark, surrealist dance of everyman with his own death. I have seen all these images. They came from the darkness of my subconsciousness, ...

A TV journalist making a documentary in a factory finds out that the workers have been on strike and tries to analyze the strike in his film, but is thwarted by the TV company. His failure at his job is interwoven with his failed marriage....

A platonic romance between art student and nude model goes through many complications in which they both try to make one another jealous before revealing their true feelings....

Two "milice" officers Janez and Franci are back after 20 years. This time they have to deal with Czech mafia and their leader Franta....

A partisan battalion falls into enemy trap more than once, which makes them suspect it's about treason. Their commissar and commander move the unit in a remote settlement in order to discover the enemy agent. This draws a lot of suspicion and distrus...

In the revolutionary year of 1968, Stane is an active rebel student. Mojca is a freshman, has a boyfriend named Vid, whom she met at the carnival party. There she also met her later husband Stane. Vid leaves for military service, while Stane successf...

Psychological action drama about a group of partisans, ambushed by the enemy....

Dramatic story of the Sarajevo photographer Matthew Samek during World War II. Samek experiences historical events in his characteristic way. He does not like the king, but neither the German occupiers, for whom he coincidentally has to work for. His...

Two men, a radio consultant and social worker, take refuge in the kingdom of the marmot - an alpine hut, which becomes their small business....

On the way from Mexico City to Caracas, a plane crash-lands on an uninhabited island. The criminal Mario Bertelli terrorizes the other survivors. He prevents them from sending emergency signals....

Peter is fed up with his father’s unfulfilled promises to visit his friend Zoran, who moved far away with his parents some months ago. He forces his father to sear he will fulfill his promise. Peter immediately tells his friend the good news, and bec...

The life of the author of the first-ever book written in the Slovene language, Primož Trubar, in the years 1562 to 1565, during his return to Ljubljana....

Set in the Tolminsko province of Slovenia in 1713, shortly after the Peasants' Uprising. The Grogovc family are forced to live in exile in a wasteland area of the country, where they suffer from the plague which gradually kills off the colony....