Staragara slate 22

Title: Deček

Genre: animation

Director: Špela Čatež

Scriptwriter: Grega Zorc, Špela Čatež

Co-producers: Staragara in Finta Film (Slovenia), MIYU Production (France), Adriatic Animation (Croatia)

Story: A 10-year-old boy skips brass band practice. He is pleasantly surprised to arrive from school to an empty home, which he is left to revel in alone for the whole afternoon and evening. He enjoys the fact that no one dictates the course of his day. When the doorbell rings, he gets scared. He goes to the door with a knife in his hand, only to discover a policeman has come to give him some tragic news. The instant realization that his parents have passed away drives the boy into the night.

Naslov: Tina

Genre: fiction

Director and scriptwriter: Francesca Staasch

Co-producers: Staragara (Slovenija), Rosamont (Italija)

Story: A 12 years old tomboy stuck in an island long after the holiday season ended, discovers a world of outcasts and weirdos which will become her family of choice. When things don’t make sense anymore, is it better to hide in the nest or to spread your wings and attempt to fly?

Title: The Last Slap

Genre: fiction

Director: Matteo Oleotto

Scriptwriters: Salvato Redemola, Pier Paolo, Piclar Elli, Matteo Oleotto

Co-producers: Staragara (Slovenija), Staragara (Italija)

Story: Two brothers have big dreams: to transform their small shack by the mountain lake into a modern house. To achieve this, during the Christmas holidays, they decide to kidnap a cat. This four-legged captive will forever change their lives and the lives of all the rural inhabitants.

Title: Krispan

Genre: fiction feature

Director and scriptwriter: Matjaž Ivanišin

Co-producers: Focus Fox, I/O post

Story: In the feature film Krispan, inspired by the search for the miraculous in the mundane, a broader social picture is drawn through the intimate space of the protagonist’s seemingly simple teenage love story. During winter, as Tomi helps his uncle sell Christmas trees in Hungary, he observes a foreign environment and the people, while back in his hometown, a series of events unfold, intertwining the lives of Barbara, Luka, and himself.

Title: Laibach Alamut

Genre: dokumentarni film

Director: Sašo Podgoršek

Scriptwriter: Blaž Kutin

Co-producers: VFS Film

Story: Laibach, the influential Slovenian music and multimedia group, plans to debut a new symphonic work titled ‘Alamut’ in collaboration with Iranian composers and the Tehran Symphony Orchestra, drawing inspiration from a novel by Slovenian author Vladimir Bartol.

Title: Nihče ni nikoli gledal slončkov kot ti

Genre: Short documentary

Director and scriptwriter: Sandra Jovanovska

Co-producers: TBD

Story: An intimate insight into early motherhood reveals the roots of life perceived from the viewpoint of two individuals that were once one. Unwanted toys on the playground form a synergetic bond with nature. Fertile soil gives birth to seeds, plants and small colorful objects. A baby travels into distant worlds in the mother’s womb, while a garden compost sings a lullaby. The pregnant woman is not shy and shows her belly growing. But she shyly reveals the Polaroid photo of her baby sprayed with breast milk. Nature grows a small microcosms of organisms in the photo to ease her self-absorption. The Earth is budding up with all the mommies in the world and they are building a farm together.

Stara Gara

(Leader) Ljubljana

Funded projects

PASS – Pass the Street (Art), Shake the Hand

Slow Performing Arts Festivals for Improved Wellbeing, Mental Health and Social Inclusion (Festival SPA)

Staragara – Slate 2024 (The Colour of the Doubt, Black Swan, Removal, We would have told each other everything, Kozmonavti)

PAGE: Project for Advancing coGnitivE accessibility in publishing

NEB COOLTOURS: Transforming Tourism Through Cultural Innovation and Environmental Stewardship in Alpe-Adria

Bridges

Transition to 8: European societies in flux

ENACT – Easy-to-understand News for Collaborative Transformation

THRIVE – Talent Harvest: Rural Intangible Heritage and Value Empowerment

Land of Lace

CAFÈ: Redefining Historic Cafés as European Cultural Heritage

ArtElevate – Fostering Inclusive Cultural Expression in Europe

CARE – Culture for Mental Health

Glassmaking Between Tradition and Innovation (GTMI)

WONDERCUT – Collaboratively Exploring the Public Value of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Next Level Cultural Experiences

Heroes Unleashed: Implementing a Sensory Reading Program in European Public Libraries

DATAS – The Data and the Sovereign

TALKING HEADS – Conversation with the art of the past

Libraries of Emotions for Good – LOE for Good

GreenHeritage – Nurturing a sustainable future in the gardens of time

G-BOOK 3 – Audience engagement activities for the social and emotional education of EU teens through gender-positive literature and digital technology

DIGITAL on STAGE – Unleashing the Performing Arts Experience through Digital Innovation

OASis – Open Art Spaces in Synergy

Transport: Sustainable puppet co-creations for European young audiences

Danube Dance Alliance for Development of Contemporary Dance Scene in the Danube Region

Mind the GAP

Beletrina Digital

WOMEN interACT – participatory theatre against the double exclusion of women

TECH(ing) TALES WITH A TWIST for the children of the present

DoSEL – Drama of Smaller European Languages

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

CULTURAL BEES: Promotion of entrepreneurship skills in the Cultural and Creative Industry among youth

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

reCITYing – Reactivating Unused Urban Spaces Through Architecture and Arts 2024–2028

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)

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 – a pan-European Film Initiative for Young Audiences in Healthcare Structures

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