Foreign Language Film Submissions from Slovenia to the Academy Awards to Compete for an Oscar Nomination or Win in the Best International Feature Film Category
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This list is chronologically sorted in reverse by years of participation!
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1. Sanremo (2020)
90 min | Drama, Romance
A love story in which fragmented memories are brought back to mind by a song.
Director: Miroslav Mandic | Stars: Sandi Pavlin, Silva Cusin, Boris Cavazza, Barbara Vidovic
Votes: 238
94th ACADEMY AWARDS (2021) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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2. Stories from the Chestnut Woods (2019)
81 min | Drama
In a decaying forest on the Yugoslav-Italian border in the years after World War II, a stingy, old carpenter and a lonely, young chestnut seller share imaginative memories of the past as ... See full summary »
Director: Gregor Bozic | Stars: Massimo De Francovich, Ivana Roscic, Giusi Merli, Tomi Janezic
Votes: 467
93rd ACADEMY AWARDS (2020/21) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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3. History of Love (2018)
105 min | Drama
Hearing disabled 17 year old Iva, her older brother and younger sister, has lost her mother in an accident, and the whole family is in agony, not making it easier when she finds out that her mother kept secrets from them.
Director: Sonja Prosenc | Stars: Doroteja Nadrah, Kristoffer Joner, Zita Fusco, Matej Zemljic
Votes: 173
92nd ACADEMY AWARDS (2019) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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4. Ivan (I) (2017)
91 min | Drama
Caught amid a violent corruption affair, a young woman is forced to make an impossible choice between the man she obsessively loves and her newborn son.
Director: Janez Burger | Stars: Marusa Majer, Matjaz Tribuson, Natasa Barbara Gracner, Branko Sturbej
Votes: 310
91st ACADEMY AWARDS (2018) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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5. Rudar (2017)
98 min | Biography, Drama, History
2009, Slovenia, European Union. For 30 years, Alija, the miner, has been one of the many Bosnian immigrant workers. Due to the crisis, miners are losing jobs. Alija is sent to check an ... See full summary »
Director: Hanna Antonina Wojcik Slak | Stars: Leon Lucev, Marina Redzepovic, Zala Djuric, Tin Marn
Votes: 331
90th ACADEMY AWARDS (2017) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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6. Houston, We Have a Problem! (2016)
88 min | Documentary, History
Explores the myth of the secret multi-billion-dollar deal behind America's purchase of Yugoslavia's clandestine space program in the early 1960s.
Director: Ziga Virc | Stars: Slavoj Zizek, Josip Broz Tito, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
Votes: 3,651
89th ACADEMY AWARDS (2016) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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7. The Tree (2014)
90 min | Drama
The Tree is a chamber piece drama that vivisects family values, almost like in ancient tragedies determined by doom.
Director: Sonja Prosenc | Stars: Katarina Stegnar, Jernej Kogovsek, Lukas Matija Rosas Ursic, Suad Fazli
Votes: 132
88th ACADEMY AWARDS (2015) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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8. Seduce Me (2013)
83 min | Drama
A pair of emotionally scarred 19-year-olds seek refuge from a harsh adult world in each other's arms. He has a juvenile detention behind him, she has a rapacious sexual appetite. As an escape, the pair are having hungry sex everywhere.
Director: Marko Santic | Stars: Janko Mandic, Nina Rakovec, Natasa Barbara Gracner, Peter Musevski
Votes: 134
87th ACADEMY AWARDS (2014) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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9. Class Enemy (2013)
112 min | Drama
Relations between the students and the new teacher of German are extremely tense. When one female student commits suicide, her schoolmates blame the teacher for her death. An awareness that... See full summary »
Director: Rok Bicek | Stars: Igor Samobor, Natasa Barbara Gracner, Tjasa Zeleznik, Masa Derganc
Votes: 2,285
86th ACADEMY AWARDS (2013) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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10. A Trip (2011)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
Three friends embark on a road trip like in high school, but things have changed - Gregor is going to war mission, Ziva is going to study abroad, while Andrej is still the same. There are secrets left unsaid. Can their friendship survive?
Director: Nejc Gazvoda | Stars: Luka Cimpric, Jure Henigman, Nina Rakovec
Votes: 909
85th ACADEMY AWARDS (2012) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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11. Silent Sonata (2011)
77 min | Drama, War
Described as a Slovenian war drama.
Director: Janez Burger | Stars: Leon Lucev, René Bazinet, Pauliina Räsänen, Ravil Sultanov
Votes: 322
84th ACADEMY AWARDS (2011) ░░░░ Status: submitted, but disqualified
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12. 9:06 (2009)
Not Rated | 71 min | Drama, Thriller
A police inspector investigates an unusual suicide case. The investigation develops into an obsession, inspector starts living in the apartment of the deceased, digging through his life and gradually taking over his identity.
Director: Igor Sterk | Stars: Igor Samobor, Silva Cusin, Labina Mitevska, Pavle Ravnohrib
Votes: 333
83rd ACADEMY AWARDS (2010) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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13. Landscape No.2 (2008)
Unrated | 90 min | Crime, Thriller
The burglars Sergej and Polde steal the valuable painting "Landscape No.2". By coincidence Sergej also takes a mysterious document dating back to the end of the World War II. Instructor is ... See full summary »
Director: Vinko Moderndorfer | Stars: Marko Mandic, Slobodan Custic, Barbara Cerar, Maja Martina Merljak
Votes: 377
82nd ACADEMY AWARDS (2009) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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14. Petelinji zajtrk (2007)
124 min | Drama, Romance
After being fired, young car mechanic Djuro gets recommendation to look for another job in a remote village. His new boss is warm, old-fashioned, and naive--completely opposite from the ... See full summary »
Director: Marko Nabersnik | Stars: Vlado Novák, Primoz Bezjak, Pia Zemljic, Dario Varga
Votes: 1,822
81st ACADEMY AWARDS (2008) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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15. Short Circuits (2006)
105 min | Drama
At night a city bus driver finds an abandoned baby near a stop. A divorced man comes to pick up his excited son for the weekend. A pretty doctor befriends a quadriplegic. Out of this ... See full summary »
Director: Janez Lapajne | Stars: Tjasa Zeleznik, Grega Zorc, Jernej Sugman, Sebastian Cavazza
Votes: 208
80th ACADEMY AWARDS (2007) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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16. Gravehopping (2005)
103 min | Comedy, Drama
Pero is a professional funeral speaker in a small Slovenian town. His unique gift is to make every funeral that extra bit special. Pero just can't help turning his eulogies into witty ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Cvitkovic | Stars: Gregor Bakovic, Drago Milinovic, Sonja Savic, Mojca Fatur
Votes: 937
79th ACADEMY AWARDS (2006) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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17. Rusevine (2004)
99 min | Drama
A successful stage director plans to put on an outdoor production of a previously unknown play by a famous writer, but is haunted by his past in the form of the actors and crew with whom he has to work.
Director: Janez Burger | Stars: Darko Rundek, Natasa Matjasec, Matjaz Tribuson, Milan Stefe
Votes: 153
78th ACADEMY AWARDS (2005) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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18. Beneath Her Window (2003)
91 min | Drama, Romance
Dusha is a young dancer and dance instructor. Torn between a dominant mother, an absent father and a married lover, she is sinking into a typical crisis of the thirties, which gets worse ... See full summary »
Director: Metod Pevec | Stars: Polona Juh, Marijana Brecelj, Sasa Tabakovic, Robert Prebil
Votes: 341
77th ACADEMY AWARDS (2004) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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19. Spare Parts (2003)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
Embittered widower, Ludvik, spends his nights transporting illegal refugees in his van from Croatia, across Slovenia, and into Italy. The young and inexperienced Rudi acts as his helpmate. ... See full summary »
Director: Damjan Kozole | Stars: Peter Musevski, Aljosa Kovacic, Primoz Petkovsek, Valter Dragan
Votes: 655
76th ACADEMY AWARDS (2003) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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20. Zvenenje v glavi (2002)
90 min | Thriller
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... See full summary »
Director: Andrej Kosak | Stars: Jernej Sugman, Ksenija Misic, Uros Potocnik, Radko Polic
Votes: 154
75th ACADEMY AWARDS (2002) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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21. Bread and Milk (2001)
68 min | Comedy, Drama
Because of a doctor's strike, Ivan is released a day early from an alcoholic treatment program. He returns to his wife Sonja and his 16-year-old son Robi. His first afternoon at home is ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Cvitkovic | Stars: Peter Musevski, Sonja Savic, Tadej Troha, Perica Radonjic
Votes: 465
74th ACADEMY AWARDS (2001) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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22. Outsider (I) (1997)
100 min | Drama
Yugoslavia before Tito's death. A young guy born to a mixed marriage (Slovenian - Bosnian) trying to find himself and fit in society, falls in love with Slovenian woman.
Director: Andrej Kosak | Stars: Davor Janjic, Zijah Sokolovic, Nina Ivanic, Uros Potocnik
Votes: 1,232
70th ACADEMY AWARDS (1997) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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23. Felix (1996)
87 min | Drama
This is a film about ordinary civilians, who on June 26, 1991, the day when war broke out in former Yugoslavia, find themselves in Slovenia. The main character of the story is an 11-... See full summary »
Director: Bozo Sprajc | Stars: Dejan Acimovic, Ivo Ban, Peter Benedejcic, Janez Hocevar
Votes: 19
69th ACADEMY AWARDS (1996) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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24. Morana (1994)
104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of nine friends go to the mountains of Triglav in seek of Morana, goddess of death. And end up being killed one by one.
Director: Ales Verbic | Stars: Tanja Dimitrievska, Damjana Grasic, Urska Hlebec, Iztok Jereb
Votes: 125
67th ACADEMY AWARDS (1994) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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25. Ko zaprem oci (1993)
99 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller
A young girl finds scattered envelops in a field, then a postman's satchel, then a hanged man. Jump 20 years: the girl, now grown, lives with her aunt and has a job with the post office ... See full summary »
Director: Franci Slak | Stars: Petra Rehar, Petra Govc, Dusan Sandak, Ludvik Bagari
Votes: 88
66th ACADEMY AWARDS (1993) ░░░░ Status: submitted
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26. Operacija Cartier (1991)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
An immigrant worker from Bosnia falls in love with the actress Nastassia Kinski. To be able to approach her, he has to become famous himself. That's why he sets off on a journey to fame in a black comedy with a twist in its tale.
Director: Miran Zupanic | Stars: Borut Veselko, Faruk Begolli, Haris Burina, Judita Zidar
Votes: 73
64th ACADEMY AWARDS (1991) ░░░░ Status: submitted, but not accepted
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