FeKK 2022
15–20/8
Secret Life


Schedule

  • 4:30pm / Slovenska kinoteka

    Second Wave: Zeitgeist Z

    Future Nostalgia
    August Adrian Braatz, Slovenia, 2021, 7’

    Generation Z
    Mia Zigmund, Slovenia, 2022, 2’

    What Is Your Favorite Color
    Petra Korent, Slovenia, 2022, 7’

    Sometimes I Wish I Were An Angel Sometimes
    Ester Ivakič, Slovenia, 2022, 6’

    Journey to the End of Night
    Hana Marn, Slovenia, 2021, 2'

    i cat see me
    Asiana Jurca Avci, Slovenia, 2022, 10’

    The Last Summer on Earth
    Gašper Antauer, Slovenia, 2022, 3’

    I Am Looking for Friends
    Iza Štrumbelj Oblak, Slovenia, 2021, 10’

    All the Way Up
    Robi Predanič, Alen Predanič, Slovenia, 2021, 8’

    Lava Lamp
    Aljoša Toplak, Slovenia, 2022, 10’

    For Your Pleasure
    Maja Hodošček, Slovenia, 2021, 28’

    Teacher in Exile
    Neo Nor, Slovenia, 2022, 2’

    7:00pm / Slovenska kinoteka

    SFA: Secret Life, archived 1

    Underworld Beauties
    Zvonimir Sintič, Yugoslavia (Slovenia), 1952, 12’, 35mm

    My First Cut
    Zdravko Barišić, Slovenia, 1999, 2’, 35mm

    Clean is Healthy
    Jože Pogačnik, Yugoslavia, (Slovenia), 1967, 10’, 35mm

    Let Me Tell You About Forests
    Jane Kavčič, Yugoslavia (Slovenia), 1956, 21’, 35mm

    You Wanted Flowers
    Zdravko Barišić, Yugoslavia (Slovenia), 1989, 3’, 35mm

    Weekend
    Jože Bevc, Yugoslavia (Slovenia), 1963, 11’, 35mm

    8:30pm / Kinodvor

    Opening ceremony + Classics: Private Life of Everything

    The Birth of a Flower
    F. Percy Smith, Great Britain, 1910, 7’

    La Soufrière
    Werner Herzog, Germany, 1977, 31’

    The Private Life of a Cat
    Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren, USA, 1944, 22’

    Everything
    David OReilly, Ireland/USA, 2017, 11’

    9:00pm / Letni kino Slovenske kinoteke

    Surprise screening

    10:30pm / Kinodvor

    FeKKONCERT: Masaž

  • 4:30pm / Kinodvor

    EFA Shorts 1

    Push This Button If You Begin To Panic
    Gabriel Böhmer, Great Britain, 2020, 13’

    My Uncle Tudor
    Olga Lucovnicova, Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, Moldova, 2020, 20’

    VO
    Nicolas Gourault, France, 2020, 19’

    In Flow Of Words
    Eliane Esther Bots, Netherlands, 2021, 22’

    Beyond Is The Day
    Damian Kocur, Poland, 2020, 25’

    6:30pm / Slovenska kinoteka

    SFA: Secret Life, archived 2

    Kras - Wonderland
    Matjaž Klopčič, Yugoslavia (Slovenia), 1974, 13’, 35mm

    Happy New Year
    Rajko Ranfl, Yugoslavia (Slovenia), 1982, 11’, 35mm

    Poisons
    Mako Sajko, Yugoslavia (Slovenia), 1964, 14’, 35mm

    A Bear and a Butterfly
    Jane Kavčič, Yugoslavia (Slovenia), 1958, 11’, 35mm

    The Revolution
    Boštjan Hladnik, Yugoslavia (Slovenia), 1975, 12’, 35mm

    7:00pm / Projektna soba SCCA

    Nature is healing

    Opening of the exhibiton.

    8:30pm / Letni kino Slovenske kinoteke

    FeKK BAL 1

    Brutalia, Days of Labour
    Manolis Mavris, Greece, 2021, 25’

    5th Cinematic Nail Factory
    Dalibor Martinis, Croatia, 2022, 5’

    Under the Lake
    Thanasis Trouboukis, Greece, 2022, 17’

    Dance in This Chaos
    Murat Zherka, North Macedonia, 2021, 16’

    MIR
    Gorana Jovanović, Serbia, 2021, 11’

    10:15pm / Letni kino Slovenske kinoteke

    FeKK SLO 1

    The Gypsy and the Death
    David Lužar, Slovenia, 2022, 21’

    4sqm
    Jaka Komac, Slovenia, 2022, 3’

    Granny’s Sexual Life
    Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard, Slovenia, France, 2021, 14’

    Cradle
    Filip Jembrih, Slovenia, 2022, 14’

    Albert Why?
    Fabris Šulin, Slovenia, 2022, 13’

    The Song of the Whales
    Žoel Kastelic, Slovenia, 2021, 3’

    Newsreel 670 – Red Forests
    Nika Autor, Slovenia, 2022, 16’

  • 11:00am / ŠKUC Atrium

    ProFeKK

    Short film script
    Christian Gamst Miller-Harris
    (lecture)

    1:00pm / ŠKUC Atrium

    ProFeKK

    Festival Short Waves
    Aleksandra Ławska
    (case study)

    4:30pm / Kinodvor

    East Of Eden: Between Life And Death

    Sine Die
    Camila Moreiras, Spain, 2021, 15’

    Survive
    Lara Milena Brose, Kilian Armando Friedrich, Germany, 2021, 30’

    Sad Machines
    Paola Michaels, Argentina, Colombia, 2021, 9’

    Will My Parents Come to See Me
    Mo Harawe, Austria, Germany, Somalia, 2022, 28’

    Goodbye Jerome!
    Adam Sillard, Gabrielle Selnet, Chloé Farr, France, 2021, 8’

    6:00pm / Slovenska kinoteka

    Instant cult: Sunčica Ana Veldić

    Hux Flux, the Son of Fig
    Sunčica Ana Veldić, Croatia, 2014, 19’

    Demon From The Bottle
    Sunčica Ana Veldić, Croatia, 2017, 16’

    Catstream
    Sunčica Ana Veldić, Croatia, 2014, 19’

    White Trash
    Sunčica Ana Veldić, Croatia, 2017, 12’

    The Tenants
    Sunčica Ana Veldić, Croatia, 2018, 5’

    Drama is Overrated
    Sunčica Ana Veldić, Croatia, 2017, 20’

    8:30pm / Letni kino Slovenske kinoteke

    FeKK BAL 2

    Four Pills at Night
    Leart Rama, Kosovo, 2021, 25’

    Lines
    Ivan Stojković, Serbia, 2021, 6’

    Adjusting
    Dejan Petrović, Serbia, 2021, 19’

    Shadows
    Dea Jagić, Croatia, 2021, 7’

    Places We’ll Breathe
    Davor Sanvincenti, Croatia, 2022, 22’

    10:15pm / Letni kino Slovenske kinoteke

    FeKK SLO 2

    . . . Yellow Dawn
    Davorin Marc, Slovenia, 2022, 3’

    Spuffies: Jubees
    Jaka Ivanc, Slovenia, 2021, 11’

    Around the Corner
    Martin Turk, Slovenija, 2022, 13’

    Bonkas⁹
    Yuliya Molina, Croatia, 2022, 16’

    Kurent
    Miha Reja, Slovenija, 2022, 7’

    Vampires from Oklahoma
    Ester Ivakič, Slovenia, 2022, 17’

    When I was ten years old I was so in love with Madonna that I cried in my bed wishing she was my mother
    Vita Eva Weisseisen, Slovenia, 2022, 3’

    Steakhouse
    Špela Čadež, Slovenia, 2021, 10’

  • 11:00am / ŠKUC Atrium

    ProFeKK

    Narrating films with nonhuman protagonists
    Sunčica Ana Veldić
    (lecture)

    1:00pm / ŠKUC Gallery (Inner courtyard)

    PROFeKK

    Meet & Greet

    4:30pm / Slovenska kinoteka

    FeKK OFF: I’ve Seen The Future Baby, It’s Sexy

    We’re All Queer Here Darling
    Naomi Moonlion, Netherlands, 2020, 3’

    Sybil’s Noon Shower of Stones
    Gery Georgieva, Bulgaria, 2020, 10’

    Commission
    Ieva Balode, Latvia, 2020, 6’

    All Whores are Jacobites
    Georgia Horgan, Scotland, 2017, 22'

    Void
    Marina Marković, Serbia, 2016, 4’

    After the Magician
    Lea Petříková, Czech Republic, 2020, 19’

    Mother for Dinner
    Nataša Prosenc Stearns, Slovenia, ZDA, 2012, 12’

    Carne
    Camila Kater, Brazil, 2019, 12’

    6:30pm / Kinodvor

    Želimir Žilnik: Political Lessons From West Germany

    Uprising in Jazak
    Želimir Žilnik, Yugoslavia, 1973, 18’

    Request
    Želimir Žilnik, Federal Republic of Germany, 1974, 10’

    Under the Protection of the State
    Želimir Žilnik, Federal Republic of Germany, 1975, 11’

    Inventory
    Želimir Žilnik, Federal Republic of Germany, 1975, 9’

    Public Execution
    Želimir Žilnik, Federal Republic of Germany, 1975, 9’

    House Orders
    Želimir Žilnik, Federal Republic of Germany, 1975, 12’

    Farewell
    Želimir Žilnik, Federal Republic of Germany, 1975, 9’

    8:30pm / Letni kino Slovenske kinoteke

    FeKKstival: Short Waves (Time Meltdown)

    (third study for) Swedge of Heaven
    Richard Horbes-Hamilton, Great Britain, 2020, 15’

    Armageddon 2
    Corey Hughes, Cuba, 2017, 6’

    The Bite
    Pedro Neves Marques, Portugal, 2019, 26’

    Milano di carta
    Gianmarco Donaggio, Italy, 2020, 7’

    Sun Dog
    Dorian Jespers, Belgium, Russia, 2019, 20’

    10:15pm / Letni kino Slovenske kinoteke

    FeKK BAL 3

    Last Days of the Year
    Marko Bičanić, Croatia, 2021, 18’

    Salute to the Sun
    Darko Masnec, Croatia, 2022, 9’

    While we were here
    Sunčica Fradelić, Croatia, 2022, 15’

    When the Morning Dawns
    Karmen Obrdalj, Bosnia and Hercegovina, 2021, 23’

    There is no father anymore?
    Kirineos Papadimatos, Greece, 2022, 15’

    00:00pm / Menza pri koritu (Metelkova)

    FeKK OFF: Internet Archeology 5.0

    go cringe give us everything

  • 11:00am / ŠKUC Atrium

    PROFeKK

    Robida Collective
    Vida Rucli
    (presentation)

    1:00pm / ŠKUC Atrium

    PROFeKK

    Who are the invisible protagonists and how to make them visible
    (panel)

    4:30pm / Slovenska kinoteka

    Second Wave: A Slovenian Horror Story

    Tempest
    Anton Martin Emeršič, Slovenia, 2021, 12’

    Fahrenheit 42
    Ana Cerar, Slovenia, 2022, 7’

    Broken Lock - 100 TV Channels
    Martin Fir, Slovenia, 2022, 4’

    The Moon of the Kurent: The Ritual
    Tomaž Gorkič, Slovenia, 2022, 7’

    The Evil, The Dead, The Just
    Sanel Ametovski, Slovenia, 2021, 11’

    Lana & Toni
    Peter Rajčič, Slovenia, 2022, 23’

    Captured
    Rok Bohinc, Slovenia, 2021, 9’

    Forty Five
    Urša Prah, Ranaji Deb, Slovenia, Češka, 5’

    LA BURCCACCIA (subtitle: A buffoon farce, based on motives from G. Boccaccio’s “Decameron”.)
    Lara Vouk, Slovenia, 2022, 23’

    6:30pm / Kinodvor

    EFA Shorts 2

    The Natural Death Of A Mouse
    Katharina Huber, Germany, 2020, 21’

    Mission: Hebron
    Rona Segal, Israel, 2020, 23’

    Marlon Brando
    Vincent Tilanus, Netherlands, 2020, 19’

    Dustin
    Naïla Guiguet, France, 2020, 20’

    Easter Eggs
    Nicolas Keppens, Belgium/France/Netherlands, 2020, 15’

    8:30pm / Letni kino Slovenske kinoteke

    FeKK BAL 4

    Son of a Prophetess
    Stanka Gjurić, Croatia, 2022, 7’

    The Same Dream
    Vlad Petri, Romania, 2021, 30’

    Displaced
    Samir Karahoda, Kosovo, 2021, 14’

    Microbiome
    Stavros Petropoulos, Greece, 2021, 26’

    10:15pm / Letni kino Slovenske kinoteke

    FeKK SLO 3

    BLC1
    Dominik Mencej, Slovenia, 2022, 14’

    Musical
    Žiga Krajnc, Slovenia, 2021, 8’

    Not Go Gentle
    Sasha Ihnatovich, Slovenia, 2022, 5’

    Framing Sutherland
    Matjaž Jamnik, Gaja Naja Rojec, Slovenia, 2021, 20’

    My Father’s Damn Camera!
    Miloš Tomić, Slovenia, 2021, 7’

    That’s How the Summer Ended
    Matjaž Ivanišin, Slovenia, 2022, 12’

    Pentola
    Leo Černic, Italy, 2022, 7’

    x1 - ESCHATON
    Juš Premrov, Slovenia, 2022, 7’

  • 3:00pm / Kinodvor

    Cinemini: Secret Life (for children aged 4+)

    The Strange Behavior of a Wheel
    Rossi & C., Italy, 1908, 3’

    The Little Girl and Her Cat
    Cinématographe Lumière, France, 1900, 1’

    Sea monsters
    Perrine Pype, Belgium, 2017, 7’

    Birdcalls
    Malcolm Sutherland, Canada, 2006, 5’

    Things
    Femke Shaap, Netherlands, 2005, 2’

    The Little Cousteau
    Jakub Kouřil, Czech Republic, 2014, 8’

    Sally
    Luna Maurer, Roel Wouters, Netherlands , 2005, 2’

    4:30pm / Slovenska kinoteka

    FeKK BAL 5

    Barley
    Andrija Mugoša, Montenegro, 2021, 18’

    A Pigeon’s Song
    Eneos Çarka, Belgium/Albania, 2021, 16’

    Summer Planning
    Alexandru Mironescu, Romania, 2021, 26’

    Liberated
    Miroslav Savić, Serbia, 2021, 7’

    Null Cone
    Vladislav Knežević, Croatia, 2022, 9

    6:30pm / Slovenska kinoteka

    FeKKstival: Short Waves (Behind Closed Doors)

    Wyraj
    Agnieszka Nowosielska, Poland, 2020, 21’

    Sharing
    Natalia Sara Skorupa, Poland, 2021, 14’

    Eyeshroom
    Małgorzata Wowczak, Poland, 2022, 9’

    Mon chéri Soviétique
    Karol Radziszewski, Poland, 2021, 28’

    The Edge of the Town
    Daria Kasperek, Poland, 2019, 14’

    8:30pm / Letni kino Slovenske kinoteke

    Award Ceremony + screening of our winners

    11:00pm / Ch0 (Metelkova)

    Fun FeKKtory

International Jury


Aleksandra Ławska

Aleksandra Ławska studied Danish Philology and Cultural Studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Since 2018 she is strongly engaged in working on projects at the Foundation of Cultural Education Ad Arte in Poznan, Poland. She has worked on multiple interdisciplinary projects including educational activities such as workshops with students, teaching film programming and production of cultural events. Since 2019 she’s a Head of Programming at the Short Waves Festival. She cooperates with Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) in Montreal as a preselection committee member.

Sunčica Ana Veldić

Sunčica Ana Veldić is a veterinary surgeon and a filmmaker from Zagreb where she studied Documentary film at the Academy of Dramatic Art. She is also a member of the Zagreb Cinema Club, where she made several award-winning documentary and experimental shorts (Croatian Virgin, The Tenant, Hux Flux) before enrolling the Academy. She received an award for best editing at the 25th Croatian Film Days for her short film Festival Tourism (2016). Her short documentaries White Trash and Drama Is Overrated were screened at many national and some renowned international film festivals such as Tampere Film Festival. In 2020, the short documentaries Catstream, produced by Dinaridi, and Person, produced by Anahonda, were distributed and won special mentions on Tabor Film Festival and Corona Short Film Festival.

Želimir Žilnik

Želimir Žilnik (b.1942, Yugoslavia) is an artist-filmmaker from Novi Sad, Serbia. In his highly prolific career, Žilnik has made over 50 feature and short films, which have been exhibited internationally at film festivals including Berlin, Toronto, Rotterdam, Moscow and Oberhausen. From the late 60s, his socially engaged films in former Yugoslavia earned him accolades, but also censorship in the 70s and the 90s for his unflinching criticism of the government apparatus. His power to observe and unleash compelling narratives out of the lives of ordinary people is the common thread throughout his work.

 

Film Critics’ Jury


Ajša Podgornik

Ajša Podgornik is a student of English and Russian. She worked at the 5th Kinotrip International Youth Film Festival and improved her knowledge on film and film criticism at the Do zadnje besede workshop. Occasionally she writes for the Ekran film magazine and is as often seen at the cinema as at her faculty lectures.

Anže Okorn

Anže Okorn is a Doctor of Philosophy and a bookseller. He is also a regular writer for the Ekran and Kino! film magazines, a member of Radio Študent Editorial Office of Culture and Humanities and a proud author of the philosophical concept of periods of 'monkeys' (Slavic for @), which he will be dabbling with for as long as he lives @@@.

Vitja Dominkuš Dreu

Vitja Dominkuš Dreu has a MA in Sociology of Culture and Pedagogy and is currently working on his doctorate dissertation titled 'The Development of Yugoslav Socialist Self-management and the Contradictions of Social Development' at the Ljubljana Faculty of Arts. During his studies, he worked as a reporter at Radio Študent and now plans and runs the educational programme at the Slovenian Cinematheque and writes for the Ekran film magazine.

 

Films











 

Winners

  • Award

    Microbiome
    Stavros Petropoulos (Greece)

  • Award

    While we were here
    Sunčica Fradelić (Croatia)

    Special mention

    Four Pills at Night
    Leart Rama (Kosovo)

  • Award

    Framing Sutherland
    Matjaž Jamnik, Gaja Naja Rojec (Slovenia)

    Special mentions

    Granny's Sexual Life
    Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard (Slovenia, France)

    Musical
    Žiga Krajnc (Slovenia)

  • FeKK BAL Award

    Last Days of the Year
    Marko Bičanić (Croatia)

    FeKK SLO Award

    Framing Sutherland
    Matjaž Jamnik, Gaja Naja Rojec (Slovenia)

  • Award

    Cradle
    Filip Jembrih (Slovenija)

ProFeKK

  • Christian Gamst Miller-Harris

    lecture

    Wednesday / Aug 17 / 11:00am–12:30pm
    Inner courtyard of the Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21

    What qualities make an idea for a short film good? How to write a script that delivers the promised premise yet also expresses the author's concept? Which approaches to the theme, characters, structure and writing are useful when developing and producing a short? How can an individual convey something grand and relevant when preyed upon by numerous dangers? Who else to better answer all these questions but the hard-bitten screenwriter Christian Gamst Miller-Harris. As he guides us through the narrative forests with a good measure of anecdotes and memories, revealing those moments when things in the script clicked as well as those he'd rather forget. Our first guest will be, as he puts it himself, honest, direct and probably a bit self-deprecatory. He'll show us some videos and you'll ask some questions. Come by!

  • Aleksandra Ławska

    case study

    Wednesday / Aug 17 / 1:00pm–2:30pm
    Inner courtyard of the Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21

    The Short Waves Festival is one of the most noticeable Polish festivals to present only short films. It is held in Poznan, one of the oldest Polish cities and is both inclusive and accessible. This year it has realised its fourteenth edition. Short Waves serves unconventional selections, such as comedies, horror films and a geographically-focused programme and displays a high degree of environmental care. What goes on at the festival will be revealed by no other than the Short Waves Head of Programming Aleksandra Ławska, who promises to answer any questions you might have. Don't miss out!

  • Sunčica Ana Veldić

    lecture

    Thursday / Aug 18 / 11:00am–12:30pm
    Inner courtyard of the Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21

    The identification with onscreen characters is the main tool of the film narrative that captures the audience. But how do we identify with non-human characters, such as animals, nature, objects or even concepts? In order to gain the favour of the audience, filmmakers in such cases most often use anthropomorphism. It is because people deem humanoid traits familiar and as thus most deserving of empathy. The film director and vet Sunčica Ana Veldić will talk about alternatives that can spark an interest in non-human protagonists without giving them human characteristics. Are such bypasses even possible or are they all founded on a certain measure of anthropomorphism?

  • socialising

    Thursday, Aug 18 / 1:00pm–2:30pm
    Inner courtyard of the Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21

    Dear creators, there'd be no shorts at FeKK without you. So, it's time to meet your cinematic pals and colleagues. In the enchanted Škuc Gallery Garden you may set a date for that coffee that’s bound not to happen or gain a fabulous friend for the rest of your life. Whatever the outcome: be there!

  • Vida Rucli, Aljaž Škrlep

    presentation

    Friday, Aug 19 / 11:00am–12:30pm
    Inner courtyard of the Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21

    Robida Collective, its eponymous magazine, online radio and spatial practices live and work in the Topolove village in the Veneto region. The Collective has grown alongside the cult film festival Postaja Topolove Station, with which it shares the location. Their living space project, Vas kot hiša, which tries to tackle the problems of abandoned villages, has won them the New European Bauhaus Prize 2022. We will explore the invisible daily life of this quiet, magical yet immensely socially engaged village with the architect and co-founder of Robida - Vida Rucli, and philosopher Aljaž Škrlep.

  • round table

    Friday, Aug 19 / 1:00pm–2:30pm
    Inner courtyard of the Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21

    Film festival programmes frequently aim to address the overlooked topics, to include minorities and generally to brighten the places lacking in light. What remains hidden and invisible at film festivals? Who makes films on minorities? What is an inclusive film festival and what does it do? Whose views are we seeing and whose do we wish to see? How to get organised and connected in rural areas? What can a festival do to attract a local audience apart from film professionals? Who are the invisible protagonists and how to hand them the mic?

    Participants:

    Aleksandra Ławska
    Head of Programming at Short Waves Festival

    Sunčica Ana Veldić
    veterinarian and director

    Vida Rucli
    architect and co-founder of Robida Collective

    Maja Ogrizović
    culturologist, initiator and project manager at the inclusive FIlm for Everyone festival

    Aljaž Škrlep
    philosopher