Blue Velvet Revisited Among the Best Making-of Documentaries in The ...
Published: 4. 10. 2026Blue Velvet Revisited and No Frank in Lumberton share 11th place in The Guardian’s ranking. Compiled by film critic Ryan Gilbey, the list presents a critical selection of twenty documentaries that take viewers behind the scenes of ...
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Horses Selected for cocoWIP in Cottbus
Published: 23. 9. 2026Jernej Kastelec’s debut feature Horses has been selected for cocoWIP, a programme for films in progress. Produced by Bela Film, the project will be presented at the connecting cottbus co-production market from 4 to 6 November 2026, during the ...
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The Film Washed and Buried Has a New Title: Whispered Mercy
Published: 26. 8. 2026The feature film directed by Martin Turk, previously known by its working title Washed and Buried, is now titled Whispered Mercy. The film uncovers long-buried family secrets and thematically explores forgiveness, while its mysterious atmosphere ...
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Snatched from the Source Available on Demand on Apple TV
Published: 13. 7. 2026Maja Weiss’s documentary Snatched from the Source – Slovenian Lebensborn Children is available to watch on demand on Apple TV. You can now watch at home the stories of four people who were placed in the Nazi Lebensborn programme as ...
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Filming Begins on Horses, the Debut Feature by Director Jernej ...
Published: 8. 7. 2026The first scenes of the feature film Horses were shot yesterday at Dob Prison. It is the feature debut of writer and director Jernej Kastelec. Filming will continue until mid-August. Speaking about his first feature, Kastelec said: “I have ...
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Cesta bratstva in enotnosti na festivalu Doxumentale v Berlinu
Published: 3. 6. 2026The documentary The Road of Brotherhood and Unity, directed by Maja Weiss, was screened at Berlin’s Doxumentale Festival on 2 June 2026. The screening at Sputnik Kino was followed by a conversation with the director, moderated by Saša Šavel ...
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We Are Still Screaming Selected for Full Circle Lab
Published: 19. 5. 2026The feature film project We Are Still Screaming, written and directed by August Adrian Braatz, was presented at the Cannes Film Festival on 17 May. The project is produced by Bela Film, with Ida Weiss as producer, and has received support from the ...
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Horses Wins the EKKOMED Award in Cyprus
Published: 25. 4. 2026The film project Horses, directed by Jernej Kastelec, has received the EKKOMED Award from the Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center, worth €2,000, at the Dot.on.the.Map Industry Days co-production forum in Limassol, Cyprus. The project was ...
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Maja Weiss Receives the France Štiglic Lifetime Achievement Award
Published: 28. 2. 2026Director and screenwriter Maja Weiss, co-founder of Bela Film, has received the France Štiglic Lifetime Achievement Award for Film and Television Directing. The Slovenian Directors’ Guild presented her with the award on 26 February 2026 at the ...
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Maja Weiss Shoots Short Film The Hanging Bridge in the Goriška ...
Published: 28. 8. 2025In late August 2025, director Maja Weiss shot the short fiction film The Hanging Bridge in Goriška Brda, Gorizia, Nova Gorica and Solkan. Produced by Bela Film, it tells the story of a Slovenian-Italian family divided by the border drawn in 1947. ...
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Blue Velvet Revisited Fills New York’s IFC Center
Published: 18. 3. 2025On 17 February 2026, Peter Braatz’s documentary Blue Velvet Revisited filled the auditorium at New York’s IFC Center. Filmmaker Ethan Coen was among the audience. A conversation with Braatz followed the screening. The screening was part of ...
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Maja Weiss Celebrated with a Major Retrospective at the Slovenian ...
Published: 10. 3. 2025The Slovenian Cinematheque will present the first comprehensive retrospective of director Maja Weiss’s work from 13 March to 6 May 2025. Maja Weiss 60! will take audiences through her fiction films and documentaries, which often give attention to ...
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