Uroš Potočnik

A political drama with elements of a thriller discusses politics, electoral fraud, and the decay of moral values, taking place in the fictional town of Rovte under the idyllic Alps. Franta, a corrupt mayor, is about to lose the election. After a TV debate, where he fails utterly, Franta calls his mistress Jozica in desperation. She advises him to seek the aid of Fleischmann, a criminal who is the only one capable of solving the problem on such short notice. After all, there are only four days left until the elections.

A hungry poet falls in love, gets shot but doesn't die, wakes up in the black Volga.

Zeko and Gogi, two stereotypical criminals, have to get rid of a corpse on November 1. What seems like a routine task turns out to be much more difficult, especially when a veterinarian, a butcher, and a prostitute get involved in the story. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but the matter is very serious. After all, this is a story about cancer.

Tragedy doesn’t come any more Dickensian in tone or Shakespearian in scope than this dark social drama of the disintegration of a little family of four. A series of small debts triggers the swift domino effect that unleashes chaos on a well-meaning working class dad who has the bad judgment to speak truth to power.

A teenager, son of an army officer moves with his family to Ljubljana in the fall of 1979. In the new surroundings, he'll fall in love, make friends and discover the world of punk rock. The latter will put him into the troubles with his strict father.

Kiti and Jozek, a young couple from the Prekmurje region become redundant at their place of work. Full of hope, they go to Ljubljana to seek new employment.

In Yugoslavia's Livada prison in 1970, inmates led by Keber convince reluctant authorities to let them watch the televised Olympic final basketball game between the home country and the U.S., but taunting guards interrupt the viewing and prod the prisoners to the point of a riot. After a period of a kind of blissful anarchy where the inmates taste freedom, Keber enlists the house "intellectual" Mrak to devise a system of prisoner self-government aimed at forcing reforms on the state.

A young soldier enters a conflict with his superiors and because he does not get the exit for the May Day holidays, he decides to escape. The escape of the weapon is a serious offense, and because there are no routes back to the barracks, the fate of the violence that leads to a bloody bribe begins to unfold. The story goes back to the time of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe.

The story is set in the 112 information center, the main protagonists are two sisters, Aleša and Mia. The elderly Aleša performs a very stressful and at the same time poorly paid job in the 112 information center. Her already tense everyday life becomes even more complicated when, after many years of studying abroad, her younger sister Mia returns, without money, a job or friends, and, of course, takes refuge on the couch with her older sister. While Aleša struggles with burnout, Mia tries to find her place in this world. While saving the hardships and lives of others, will the sisters also be able to save their own?