Irena Kovačević

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

Biba is a good-hearted hairdresser solving problems of everyone who sit in her therapeutic hair salon chair. Having been single for a while, she is suddenly faced with a challenge herself: her mum wants her to bring a date to her birthday party.

Adam creates Eve and puts her on his throne. A Child is about to be born.

The forgotten phenomenon of a youth choir that came to be known as the “Nightingale of Trbovlje” in the 1930s, suggests that one can make extraordinary art and conquer the world even in impossible circumstances and a godforsaken environment.

The focus is on the disintegration of an idyllic relationship between parents, Marko and Dunja. This is due to a lack of respect, caused by loss of employment and a financial breakdown. In time, the parents are no longer able to bear their burden, which is thus increasingly weighing their children down. In Slovenia, the story from The Basics of Killing occurs on a daily basis, but it could happen anywhere. To those familiar with the phenomenon, the film will be a painful experience, to others, may it be a warning.

A woman who killed her man has served her sentence. She sails through town; she sails through scenes of life. A girl sees her, forgives her, and saves her. The woman has done her thing. The world finally embraces her again.