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Stara gara, Zavod za kulturne dejavnosti, Ljubljana
Tržaška 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 421 0024, 386 (0) 41 378 527
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Staragara was established as an independent non-profit cultural organisation in 2003 by film directors Janez Burger and Jan Cvitkovič. Their unorthodox films have won numerous international awards. Apart from the film productions, Staragara also produces contemporary dance performances by the choreographer Magdalena Reiter and occasionally organises special dance events and programmes. Staragara is also set to produce a special film project for Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012.


Film production

As a film production house, Staragara produced Cvitkovič's black comedy Gravehopping [Odgrobadogroba], which saw its world première in September 2005 at the 53rd International Film Festival in San Sebastian and received the prestigious Altadis New Directors Award for the best first and second film of a director. The film has won many other prizes (for example, in Warsaw, Cottbus, Palić, Torino, Portorož, Khanty Mansysk, and Setubal in Portugal) and more than 20,000 viewers saw the film during regular cinematographic distribution in Slovenia. The film was co-produced by Propeler Film from Zagreb and TV Slovenia and financially supported by the Slovenian Film Centre and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia. The Association of Slovene Film Workers selected Gravehopping as the 2005 Slovene candidate for the Foreign Language Film Oscar award (announced by the Association of Slovene Film Workers). Cvitkovič is best known for winning the Lion of the Future Award at the 2001 Venice Film Festival for his debut feature film Bread and Milk [Kruh in mleko].

Staragara produced the short-feature On the Sunny Side of Alps [Na sončni strani Alp] and in 2010 also an award-winning feature-film without dialogues Silent Sonata [Circus fantasticus], directed by Janez Burger and supported by Media Plus (recipient of the best film and the best director awards at the 13th edition of the Festival of Slovenian Film in 2010).

Other film projects currently in development are Driving School and Block of Flats. In 2011 film Archeo, written and directed by Jan Cvitkovič, was premièred at the Festival of Slovenian Film and won awards for the best feature-film, best photography, and best directing.

Dance and stage productions

Staragara also produces dance and stage performances. In 2003 it produced an evening of four Polish dance performances called The Invasion of the Poles at Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana. In the following year dancer and choreographer Magdalena Reiter of Staragara – together with Exodos Institute – worked on an international co-production of the dance performance Moment - A Study of Suspended Time. Later she choreographed the dance performances Solo (2005), Heksamiton(2007), 36,5°C (2008), Modus Vivendi (2010), etc.

European Capital of Culture 2012

For the event Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012 Staragara will launch the central film project of the event entitled Omnibus, with which – together with the project's art director Jan Cvitkovič – the film directors and authors from the region (Antonio Nuić, Georgy Pulfi, Michael Glawogger, Micheangelo Framartino) will produce and present a film made for the occasion.

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