SREČNO, ORLO!
Buona fortuna, Orlo! / Good Luck, Orlo!
Sara Kern
SLO – HR – AT, 2016, col., 14’
v.o. slovena / Slovenian o.v.
RAJ
Paradiso / Paradise
Sonja Prosenc, Mitja Ličen
SLO – HR, 2019, col., 25’
v.o. slovena / Slovenian o.v.
BABIČINO SEKSUALNO ŽIVLJENJE
La vita sessuale della nonna / Granny’s Sexual Life
Urška Djukič, Émilie Pigeard
SLO – F, 2021, col., 13’
v.o. slovena / Slovenian o.v.
SESTRE
Sorelle / Sisters
Kukla
SLO, 2021, col., 24’
v.o. albanese – slovena – serba /
Albanian – Slovenian – Serbian o.v.
STEAKHOUSE
Špela Čadež
SLO – DE – F, 2021, col., 10’
v.o. slovena / Slovenian o.v.
HOBOTNICA BANANA MIŠMAŠ
Un miscuglio di polpo e banana / Octopus Banana Hotchpotch
Milanka Fabjančič
SLO, 2023, col., 8’
v.o. senza dialoghi / no dialogue o.v.
KAKO SEM SE NAUČILA OBEŠATI PERILO
Come ho imparato a stendere il bucato / How I Learned to Hang Laundry
Barbara Zemljič
SLO, 2023, col., 23’
v.o. slovena / Slovenian o.v.
MAČEK MED VRATI
Gattolandia / Catlands
Ana Čigon
SLO – HR, 2024, col., 10’
v.o. senza dialoghi / no dialogue o.v.
ONKRAJ OBRAZA
Oltre la faccia / Beyond the Face
Anja Resman
SLO – HR, 2024, col., 10’
v.o. senza dialoghi / no dialogue o.v.
TRI TIČICE
Tre uccelli / Three Birds
Zarja Menart
SLO – HR, 2024, col., 8’
v.o. senza dialoghi / no dialogue o.v.
- Sunday 18
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 18:15
Non ti scordar di me / Forget Me Not
Anja Medved
SLO – I, 2025, col., 104’
v.o. slovena – italiana / Slovenian – Italian o.v.
While sorting through old family photos, a forgotten past of the border territory between Slovenia and Italy, a space brutally divided by wars and political violence, gradually unfolds. The film is part of the project “Memory Ambulance and Archive Brigades”, included in the official program of GO!2025 Nova Gorica-Gorizia European Capital of Culture.
- Sunday 18
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 11:00
La ragazza del coro / Little Trouble Girls
Urška Djukić
SLO – I – HR – SRB, 2025, col., 90’
v.o. slovena / Slovenian o.v.
Sixteen-year-old Lucia, shy and sensitive, attends the choir of a Catholic school: here she meets Ana-Maria, strong and charismatic, and faces the first stirrings and questions of life. Presented at the Berlinale 2025 in the “Perspectives” section, it was nominated for the EFA (European Film Awards) and is the official Slovenian submission for the 2026 Academy Awards.
- Sunday 18
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 20:30
La ragazza del coro / Little Trouble Girls
Urška Djukić
SLO – I – HR – SRB, 2025, col., 90’
v.o. slovena / Slovenian o.v.
Sixteen-year-old Lucia, shy and sensitive, attends the choir of a Catholic school: here she meets Ana-Maria, strong and charismatic, and faces the first stirrings and questions of life. Presented at the Berlinale 2025 in the “Perspectives” section, it was nominated for the EFA (European Film Awards) and is the official Slovenian submission for the 2026 Academy Awards.
- Sunday 18
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 20:30
Ida, così stonata che pure i morti si son svegliati e insieme han fatto una cantata / Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song
Ester Ivakič
SLO – HR, 2025, col., 109’
v.o. slovena – bosniaca /
Slovenian – Bosnian o.v.
In a small village in the remote Prekmurje region, an imaginative but tone-deaf 10-year-old Ida becomes convinced she can prevent her Grandma’s death by joining the school choir. The film was screened at Cottbus and was in competition at the latest Torino Film Festival, where it received the Special Jury Prize.
- Saturday 17
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 20:00
Nel silenzio della vita / The Silence of Life
Nina Blažin
SLO, 2024, col. & b-n / b-w., 88’
v.o. slovena / Slovenian o.v.
Each of us will have to face mortality. It’s up to us what we’ll be like in those moments. What will you do with the time you have left? The Silence of Life was presented, among others, at the Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož and at the Torino Film Festival in 2024.
- Monday 19
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 16:00
Maja Doroteja Prelog
SLO – PL – ITA – SRB – AT, 2024, col., 87’
v.o. slovena / Slovenian o.v.
After surviving a terminal illness diagnosis, Blaž sets of to a grueling celebratory Giro d’Italia. With him is his partner, filmmaker Maja Doroteja Prelog, tasked with capturing the triumphant biking tour. With him is his partner, filmmaker Maja Doroteja Prelog, tasked with capturing the triumphant biking tour. An unfiltered testament to love and change Cent’anni had its world premiere at the Trieste FF in 2024.
- Sunday 18
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 14:00
Corpo / Body
Petra Seliškar
SLO – HR – MK, 2023, col., 91’
v.o. slovena / Slovenian o.v.
Telo is a documentary by Petra Seliškar recounting 20 years of her friend Urška’s life, who suffers from rare autoimmune diseases. The film blends intimate conversations, archives, and creative visuals to explore the body’s mysteries and the power of art and friendship. Selected at Last Stop Trieste 2022, it premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival 2023.
- Monday 19
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 14:00
Donna di Dio / Woman of God
Maja Prettner
SLO, 2023, col., 98’
v.o. slovena – slovacca / Slovenian – Slovak o.v.
Protestant pastor Jana faces her greatest challenge: stepping away from the Church, while long-buried family wounds and childhood trauma resurface Audience Award and Fipresci Prize at the Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož.
- Saturday 17
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 16:00
Sara Kern
SLO – AU, 2022, col., 80’
v.o. inglese – slovena / English – Slovenian o.v.
Dopo la morte improvvisa della madre, la decenne Moja si ritrova a essere l’adulta inattesa della sua famiglia in frantumi, cercando di riavvicinare l’inquieta sorella maggiore Vesna e il padre ormai distante. Moja Vesna è stato presentato in anteprima alla Berlinale nel 2022.
- Saturday 17
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 11:00
History of Love
Sonja Prosenc
SLO – I – NO, 2018, col., 105’
v.o. slovena – inglese / Slovenian – English o.v.
After the loss of her mother, and the discovery that she actually knew little about her, Iva sinks into a strange, almost dreamlike world far from reality.
History of Love, selected projects at WEMW in 2016, premiered at the Karlovy Vary IFF in 2018 where it received a Special Mention from the Jury.
- Sunday 18
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 16:00
Non sarò più una perdente / My Last Year as a Loser (traduzione italiana da sloveno)
Urša Menart
SLO, 2018, col., 88’
v.o. slovena / Slovenian o.v.
Špela, 29, an unemployed art historian sleeping on her parents’ sofa, tries to get her life back on track, but her new friends keep her trapped in adolescence. Ne bom več luzerka, Menart’s debut film, is a dramatic comedy about disillusionment, shame, and the generational gap between overqualified/underemployed millennials and their parents.
- Saturday 17
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 18:00
Installazione d’amore / Installation of Love
Maja Weiss
SLO, 2007, col., 102’
v.o. slovena / Slovenian o.v.
A woman hungry for love becomes the unwitting centerpiece of her ex-lover’s and daughter’s art project, launching everyone into a journey where life and creation blur.
In competition at TSFF in 2008.
- Saturday 17
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 14:00
Punto debole / Blind Spot
Hanna A. W. Slak
SLO, 2002, col., 87’
v.o. slovena / Slovenian o.v.
“No human being can live without interacting with society…” To save her brother from addiction, a woman isolates him from the world, unknowingly unleashing dark secrets capable of overwhelming them both. Slepa pega was selected at Locarno and Thessaloniki, it was later screened at TSFF in 2003.
- Monday 19
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 18:00
Ivana the Terrible
Ivana Mladenović
RO – SRB, 2019, col., 89’
Romanian – Serbian o.v.
Ivana invites friends, family and former lovers to play themselves and their emotions in a scripted version of the story of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Special Jury Prize in the Cineasti del presente section of the Locarno Film Festival, the film was also in competition at the Trieste FF in 2020.
- 2025
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 18:00
GRAD
The city
Maša Šarović
SRB, 2016, col., 12’
Serbian o.v.
Italian Premiere
NIKOG NEMA
Nobody Here
Jelena Gavrilović
SRB, 2017, col., 20’
Serbian o.v.
ROZE
Pink
Tamara Todorović
SRB, 2018, col., 17’
Serbian o.v.
Italian Premiere
U RAMENIMA
Shoulders
Tara Gajović
SRB, 2022, col., 20’ Serbian o.v.
- 2025
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 14:15
Homelands
Jelena Maksimović
SRB, 2020, col. & b-n / b-w, 63’
Serbo- Croatian – Greek – English o.v.
A girl born in the former Yugoslavia returns to a mountain village from which her grandmother fled during the Greek Civil War. But the place no longer corresponds to her family memories.
“Since I believe in a strong connection between my personal life and the films I participate in, I decided to let this film be as free as possible”.
- 2025
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 14:15
Celts
Milica Tomović
SRB, 2021, col., 106’ Serbian o.v.
Tired of replacing almonds with walnuts, butter with margarine, sex with masturbation, a group of friends in Yugoslavia looks for something real. Celts premiered at the Berlinale in the Panorama section and at Sarajevo FF, where it won the Best Director award. The film was in competition at the Trieste FF in 2022, where it won the CEI award.
- 2025
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 16:00
78 Days
Emilija Gašić
SRB, 2024, col., 82’
Serbian o.v.
Italian Premiere
When their father is drafted in the military during the 1999 NATO bombing in Serbia, three sisters start an Hi8 video journal awaiting his comeback.
Shot in Hi8, 78 Days premiered at IFF Rotterdam 2024 and was then presented in more than 30 international film festivals.
- 2025
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 20:30
When The Phone Rang
Iva Radivojević
SRB-USA, 2024, col., 73’
Serbian – English o.v.
Italian Premiere
Through an intimate reconstruction of an important phone call, When The Phone Rang investigates dislocation and the nature of remembering. In the protagonist’s eleven-year-old mind the phone call erases her entire country, history and identity. Special Mention in the Cineasti del Presente section of the latest Locarno FF.
- 2025
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 18:00
Landscapes of Resistance
Marta Popivoda
SRB – DE – F, 2021, col., 95’
v.o. serba
Sonja is a 97-year-old former antifascist fighter who was one of the first female partisans in Yugoslavia and a member of the resistance in Auschwitz. Il film (one of the selected projects at WEMW in 2018), premiered at the Rotterdam IFF in 2021 and was then selected at more than 30 international festivals, including Cinéma du Réel, Sarajevo and Thessaloniki.
- 2025
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 19:30
The Other Side of Everything
Mila Turajlić
SRB – F- QA, 2017, col.,104’
v.o. serba
Belgrade. As the filmmaker begins an intimate conversation with her mother, the political fault line running through their home reveals a house and a country haunted by history.
Best documentary at IDFA in Amsterdam, the film was also in competition at the Trieste FF in 2018.
- 2025
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 21:15
