Ljubljana (2002)

Director and Screenwriter:  Igor Šterk

Actors: Gregor Zorc, Tjaša Železnik, Manca Dorrer, Primož Pirnat, Jaka Ivanc.

Director of cinematography: Ven Jemeršić.

Music: Iztok Turk, Damjan Bizilj.

Co-Producer:  TV Slovenija-Ljubljana

2002, 35 mm, color, 71 minutes

Like his contemporaries, Mare, a young man finishing college, isn’t sure what to do with his life.  At best, he is ambivalent about his medical studies, and he seems incapable of commitment to any serious relationship.  There really is nothing stable about this fellow in his mid-20s, whose childishness is underscored by his interest in the rave scene and his occasional flirtations with ecstasy.  In this period of extended youth he is in search of moments of happiness.  His fellow students and the friends around him are more or less forced into maturing (they get jobs or have children…), and the gulf between him and them grows, turning them into awkward acquaintances, and his chance encounters with them become unpleasant.  The most genuine thing in his life appears to be his love interests, which are divided between two very different women--a beautiful and grounded fellow student and a free-spirited raver girl.