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 op IFFR
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Playing Men
Matjaž Ivanišin | 60' | Croatia | None
A positively peculiar play with the borders between documentary and fiction, ruminating on manliness and competitiveness. -
Karpotrotter
Matjaž Ivanišin | 49' | Slovenia | International premiere
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… -
Playing Men
Matjaž Ivanišin | 60' | Croatia | None
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