Jožica Avbelj

Jožica Avbelj

Movies for Jožica Avbelj...

Bitch, A Derogatory Term for a Woman
Title: Bitch, A Derogatory Term for a Woman
Character: Valentina
Released: October 19, 2021
Type: Movie
Eva is a young artist who smokes, drinks, occasionally takes drugs, parties and finds no creative inspiration. She also has a strange love affair with her mentor, her best friend is moving to Berlin, her pay check is three months late and above all so is her period. She realizes she needs to change her lifestyle and turns to a web browser for help. Bitch is a film about a period in life where you simply get stuck and do not know how to move on.
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Sleeping with Tito
Title: Sleeping with Tito
Character: Jelka
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Jelka and Egon are elderly people who spend the autumn of their lives together.
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Inferno
Title: Inferno
Character: Direktorica vrteca
Released: September 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Tragedy doesn’t come any more Dickensian in tone or Shakespearian in scope than this dark social drama of the disintegration of a little family of four. A series of small debts triggers the swift domino effect that unleashes chaos on a well-meaning working class dad who has the bad judgment to speak truth to power.
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Where to
Title: Where to
Released: September 13, 2013
Type: Movie
Two women of different generations encounter, each in its own way dealing with issues of life and death, and spend a day together.
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Piran-Pirano
Title: Piran-Pirano
Character: Laura
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Piran - Pirano tells a story about three individuals and how their destinies are unusually intertwined. An Italian Antonio, a Bosnian Veljko and a Slovenia girl Anica face the terror of war as children and each of them become war's victim in their own way. Half a century later their paths cross again and last days of war, fear, despair, love and inexplicable emotions live up again - this time because Antonio returns to Piran to see his place of birth once again before he dies.
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Summer Hit
Title: Summer Hit
Character: Singing teacher
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A story about the price of success. It reveals the cruelty of the music scene that a young and talented girl has to cope with in order to succeed.
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AgapE
Title: AgapE
Released: September 20, 2007
Type: Movie
In a remote convent where nuns live, they decide to introduce broadband internet.
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Beneath Her Window
Title: Beneath Her Window
Character: Joži
Released: December 4, 2003
Type: Movie
Duša 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 when she starts suspecting that someone has been following her and invading her privacy.
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Blind Spot
Title: Blind Spot
Released: August 4, 2002
Type: Movie
Lupa finds the drug addict Gladki who escaped from the hospital. She locks him in a rented room with the intention of helping him get rid of his addiction. But in between the walls of the isolated room the boundaries between the prisoner and the warden start to disappear. Horrible secrets are uncovered and Lupa begins to fight for her own freedom. A terrifying drama about young people who are left to themselves and to the dark forces of decay that cannot be stopped ; not even by love...
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Portrait of the Poet with His Double
Title: Portrait of the Poet with His Double
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
A look at the life and thoughts of France Presern, arguably the most prominent Slovenian poet, as well as historical background of his time. How our tragic hero became a symbol of Slovenian culture.
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When I Close My Eyes
Title: When I Close My Eyes
Character: Secretary at the post office
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A postal worker is suspected of committing a robbery at the rural office where she works alone.
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Love Is the Ruin of Us All
Title: Love Is the Ruin of Us All
Character: Polonca
Released: October 27, 1987
Type: Movie
At the end of the last century hunters who hunted wild roosters, while waiting for prey to show up, were killing time with storytelling. The first story is about Jernac that had a fight with Tomas because of Rezika. Another story tells about Tincek, limp foundling, who spent his youth with the Komar family, where he fell in love with their Lencka. The third is the story of a rich Miholac whose attention was grabbed by poor Polonca, a romance that was opposed by his father. The central theme of all stories is love that eventually everybody die of.
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Our Man
Title: Our Man
Released: June 11, 1985
Type: Movie
Milan, a successful company director, is replaced, and he decides to find out why.
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Bumpstone
Title: Bumpstone
Character: Sestra Kislih
Released: June 11, 1985
Type: Movie
Story of a small group of people who think there is going to be an attack by a group of rabid animals. They perceive this danger through a trance they invoke by hitting their heads against a stone. They decide to oppose their enemy, and a fierce clash takes place.
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Love
Title: Love
Character: Sestra Cecilija
Released: November 5, 1984
Type: Movie
In 1940, shortly before the outbreak of war, a young boy Marjan lives a carefree life with his gang in Ljubljana, experiencing all the problems of his age. With Lenka he's experiencing his first "pure" love, while discovering sexuality... The Italian occupation brings many changes, gang breaks up, some join the liberation movement, the others join collaborationist forces. Marjan remain "unlisted". Italians surrender, and hand over the city to Germans. Frivolous Milena, who has good connections with them, seduces Marjan whom she lost her innocence with. The war is over and the partisans win. The new authorities mistakenly imprison Marjan.
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The Years of Decision
Title: The Years of Decision
Character: Cveta
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
When Peter comes back from the war, he finds his father changed and alone. Their former maid, Leni, has also left and soon Peter's grandfather also dies. His father begins writing his memoirs of his Partisan years. Peter blames his father for his mother's death, but the final blow comes when he catches his father together with his (Peter's) former girlfriend. He moves in with his brother and accuses Leni of having had an affair with his father. Peter decides to kill his father but cannot carry out the plan. His father tells him in a fit of rage that he isn't his son at all. Feeling desperate and down, he goes to Leni's place for comfort, and finds her dead on the floor. The police arrest Peter for the murder of Leni. Will Peter have to serve a jail sentence on his road to maturity and will political connections have a bearing on the final verdict of the trial? Peter doesn't even know whom he can trust anymore.
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Displaced Person
Title: Displaced Person
Released: June 30, 1982
Type: Movie
Peter, whose father was a member of the Home Guard collaboration forces and a political emigrant, returns from Argentina to Slovenia, his father’s homeland. In Slovenia, Peter makes the acquaintance of an architect, but their friendship is fraught with ideological conflicts.
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Apprenticeship of the Inventor Polz
Title: Apprenticeship of the Inventor Polz
Character: Professor Erotika
Released: March 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Jani, called just Polz by his fellows, is a sincere elementary schoolboy. He likes his schoolmate Hojka, but especially drawn to inventiveness. He is suported by his mother, his schoolmate Hojka and Fitipaldi. The rest of them, on the other hand his father, a teacher of physics at the top of list, show no recognition of his efforts whatsoever. When seeminghly on the verge of his first success, his device explodes and thus concludes his life of home expirimentation. Polz remains a kind of rebel and fanatic in the eyes of adults, but his younger brother is already promising to follow in his footsteps.
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See You in the Next War
Title: See You in the Next War
Character: Sonja
Released: February 4, 1980
Type: Movie
The two enemies from war, Slovenian partisan Berk and German soldier Bitter, meet each other during holidays in Spain. Recalling the war through conversation, Berk remembers Anton, his fellow comrade he had spend the most time with.
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Transgression
Title: Transgression
Character: Milena
Released: January 17, 1980
Type: Movie
A TV journalist making a documentary in a factory finds out that the workers have been on strike and tries to analyze the strike in his film, but is thwarted by the TV company. His failure at his job is interwoven with his failed marriage.
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Looking Into the Night
Title: Looking Into the Night
Character: Milojkova supruga (segment "Erupcija")
Released: March 9, 1978
Type: Movie
The common motif of two stories is love and death. In the first story, a drama of love and adultery takes place with a tragic ending. In the second story, the environment of hospital asylum and the constant presence of death makes two diabetics carefully watching over an unknown man in coma.
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Fear
Title: Fear
Released: March 20, 1974
Type: Movie
The manager of a whorehouse is in love with a young woman who works as a maid, there. He believes that his feelings are reciprocated, but the woman chooses instead to marry a rich man who has also been courting her. Punctuating the story of this romance are a magician's show, and an earthquake.
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The Flight of Dead Bird
Title: The Flight of Dead Bird
Released: December 27, 1973
Type: Movie
Three brothers struggle to survive on the harsh, inexorable and melancholy plains of Slovenia's Prekmurje region. The oldest flees from home in search of a better living, the middle brother survives by refusing to comply with tradition and the youngest, who received his education as a vet in the city simply cannot get used to the slow pace of country life. Will their father live to see the day when respect for the traditional ways will heal the wounds of the impoverished land?