Pulse Cultural Network for Transition is looking for partners to work together on the transition to a sustainable and socially just future through the power of imagination. They are interested in cooperating within Culture (Interdisciplinary) and MEDIA: Games Open calls. Organization: Pulse Cultural Network for Transition facilitates collaboration between cultural actors who want to work […]

Title: Hotel Alkohol Genre: fiction Director and scriptwriter: Jan Cvitković Story: Bako’s decision to confront his alcoholism by seeking treatment in a psychiatric hospital leads to unexpected connections with Medea, a headstrong drug addict, and Drago, a gentle chess enthusiast, as they form a bond amidst the chaos of their struggles. Through a series of […]

Vertigo’s slate of projects consists of two fiction films, feature documentary film and TV series. All projects are intended as international co-productions. Two out of four projects are written and will be directed by debut female directors. First one is Chestnuts by Katarina Morano, a young and perceptive director whose previous short film Ljubljana – […]

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 […]

Title: Variola – Dark Spring TV series Director: Matevž Luzar Co-producers: Vertigo (SI), This&That (SR), Kinorama (HR) Countries of co-production: Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia Story: An unexpected epidemic of a lethal virus breaks out in socialist Yugoslavia, leaving a few courageous medical workers fighting against the disease and the government. Limited TV series (8 x 50 […]

Title: Sema Genre: Drama Director: Lorenzo Puntoni Scriptwriters: Lorenzo Puntoni, Andrea Paolo Massara Co-producers: Lumen Films (IT) , Mediterraneo Cinematographica (IT), Vertigo Ljubljana (SI) Countries of co-production: Italy, Slovenia Story: The story of “Sema” takes place in 1947 Italy. While the story focuses on Italian colonisation of Ethiopia, it also touches the subject of Italian […]

Title: Paradiso Genre: fiction film Director: Giulio Mastromauro Scriptwriters: Giulio Mastromauro, Andrea Brusa in Herbert Simone Paragnani Co-producers: Disparte (IT), Indaco Film (IT), Vertigo (SI) Countries of co-production: Slovenija, Italija / Slovenia, Italy Story: It is the story of Uriela, laundress in a steel factory who is ready to do whatever it takes to povide […]

Title: Pusti vrata odprta Genre: komedija-drama Director: Judita Gamulin Scriptwriters: Judita Gamulin Co-producers: Eclectica (HR), Frau Film (DK), KJELLSON & WIK AB (SE), Vertigo Ljubljana (VER) Countries of co-production: Slovenia, Croatia, Sweden and Denmark Story: Leave The Door Open is comedy-drama tracing four different families that converge at an Ikea store in Zagreb over the […]

“The Long Way Down” is an elevated horror fiction film directed by Italian director Giacomo Talamini. It tells a story of four asthmatic teenagers who, escorted by a strict therapist, descend into the abandoned mine of Cave del Predil for a speleotherapy session, where a series of earthquakes block their way back out. The kids […]

Title: Spring Cleaning Genre: drama Director: Marija Apčevska Scriptwriter: Marija Apčevska Producer: Kino Oko (MK) Co-producers: Servia Film (RS), Arsmedia (SI) Countries of co-production: Slovenia, Serbia, North Macedonia In the midst of the hottest summer, a prodigal daughter comes back to her home town, for the first time in years. Varava is a prison inmate […]