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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Matjaž Ivanišin

Matjaž IVANIŠIN (1981, Slovenia) was educated in film at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana. Since his graduation in 2007, he has worked as a freelance filmmaker. His student film Quick View (2005) won several awards. He received the France Brenk Award for his debut feature-length documentary Karpotrotter (2013). Ivanišin’s second feature-length documentary, Playing Men (2017), won the Cine + Distribution Support Award at Belfort Film Festival. It was also selected for IFFR 2023.

Filmography

(selection) Che Sara (2002, short doc), Quick View (2005, short), Moje male ljubice/My Little Sweethearts (2006, short, TV), Šentilj-Spielfeld, mejni prehod, ki ga ni vec/Šentilj-Spielfeld, a Border Crossing that Once Was (2009, short doc), Karpopotnik/Karpotrotter (2013, mid-length doc), Houses (2014, doc, co-dir), Vsaka dobra zgodba je ljubezenska zgodba/Every Good Story Is a Love Story (2017, doc, co-dir), Playing Men (2017, doc), Oroslan (2019)

Matjaž Ivanišin at IFFR

  • Playing Men

    A positively peculiar play with the borders between documentary and fiction, ruminating on manliness and competitiveness.

  • Karpotrotter

    Around 1970, young filmmaker Karpo Godina took his camera on a trip around Vojvodina and made an unusual ‘road movie’, Imam jednu kucu (I Have a House

  • Playing Men

    After watching Playing Men, men and women will want nothing more than to wrestle or play cards. This ode to games reveals the sense in