THE LOST SON; OBSERVING; BIMBERLI; FREEDOM OR BARBARISM

Title: The Lost Son

Genre: fiction film with elements of thriller

Director: Darko Štante

Scriptwroter: Darko Štante

Producer: Staragara

Countries of co-production: Slovenia, Croatia, The Netherlands

Story: A detective runs into his violent brother, whom he hasn’t seen in twelve years. While trying to help him, his actions trigger repercussions that will shake their lives to the core.

Title: Observing

Genre: fiction film

Director: Janez Burger

Scripwriters: Srdjan Koljević, Janez Burger

Producer: Staragara

Countries of co-production: Slovenia, Croatia, North Macedonia, Italy

Story: Inspired by true events. The film follows Lara, a paramedic intern who helps bring a young man into a hospital after he was brutally beaten and live-streamed on Facebook. The clip was seen by 20,000 people and no one called the police. Although he is in a coma, Lara starts to receive video clips from his FB profile, showing unidentified persons watching him get beaten. She reports this to a detective, who starts an investigation. All the observers who appear in the video clips will become a nightmare in her real life. She soon realises that she is also an accomplice in this horrible event.

Title: Not a Word

Genre: fiction film

Director: Hanna Slak

Scriptwriter: Hanna Slak

Producer: Staragara

Countries of co-production: Slovenia, Germany

Story: Star orchestra conductor Nina works on Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. Rehearsals are interrupted: her son Lars has had an accident. Putting the concert on the line, Nina decides to spend five days alone with Lars. They go to their summer residence on a remote island. In winter, the island is abandoned. They are stranded with one another and their inability to communicate. Silent observation and misunderstandings make way for suspicion. Was Lars involved in a deadly incident at school? A storm hits the island. Tension culminates in a fierce confrontation. Safe from the storm, Nina and Lars see the trust between them shattered. Nina risks her professional reputation and prolongs their stay. They set out to repair a broken boat. United by the effort, they start to listen to each other. By listening to Lars, Nina finds an intimate bond between her and Mahler´s music.

Title: Bimberli

Genre: short animated film

Director and animator: Rok Predin

Scriptwriter: Andrej Predin

Producer: Staragara

Countries of co-production: Slovenia, Italy

Story: In the old part of town, at the end of Larch Street, is an old townhouse. A girl who lives there shares her room with her magic friend, Bunko the Bimberlee. The sweet furry creature came to live with her when she was just a baby, and they have been inseparable since. But Bunko has grown quite a bit thought the years, and his bulky body has become too big to fit in the flat. Also, he is awfully clumsy..

Stara Gara

(Leader) Ljubljana

Funded projects

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Operation Nova

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges (OLL LE)

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!

SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage

SPECTRUM 14|15