Slovenian films at Sarajevo Film Festival
Lapajne is the winner of the 9th Festival of Slovenian Films in Portorož. The Sarajevo screening will be an international premiere for the film.
The competition short films programme will feature two Slovenian short films and world premieres: Na sončni strani Alp (On the sunny side of Alps) by director Janez Burger and Luknja (The Hole), by director Marko Šantiæ, the winner of the last year Sarajevo Film Festival short film programme with Sretan put, Nedim (Good Luck, Nedim).
Among the 10 films in competition two world premieres will be presented, in which Slovenia is a coproducing country: I’m from Titov Veles by Macedonian director Teona Mitevska and It’s hardto be nice by a Bosnian director Srdjan Vuletiæ, who in 2001 shot the short film Hop, Skip & Jump, a Slovenian production and the winner of the Panorama short film programme in Berlin.
The competition documentary programme will show two Slovenian films: Babice revolucije (Grandmothers of Revolution) by director Petra Seliškar, premiered at the Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival in December 2006 and Umirajoča tišina (Dying Silence) by director Èrt Brajnik.
Outside of the competition another Slovenian film will be presented on a special screening: Petelinji zajtrk (Rooster’s Breakfast), first feature film by director Marko Naberšnik, produced by Arsmedia and backed by the Slovenian Film Fund