Boris Petkovič

Directing

Boris Petkovič

Born 1971-04-22 · Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia (now Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Boris Petkovič, born on April 22, 1971, in Zenica, completed his studies at the Higher Traffic School in Portorož in 1996. In 2005, he graduated in film direction at the EICAR film school in Paris, where he also taught for the next three years. In 2008, he returned to Slovenia, where he currently lives and creates. He is known for Košarkar naj bo (2017), Desperado tonic (2004) and Utrip ljubezni (2015).

Acting credits

Behind the camera

LGBT_SLO_1984 poster
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It began in 1984 and it still goes on today. 35 years of the LGBT movement in Slovenia through the prism of activism and culture.

LGBT_SLO_1984

2022

LGBT_SLO_1984 poster
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It began in 1984 and it still goes on today. 35 years of the LGBT movement in Slovenia through the prism of activism and culture.

LGBT_SLO_1984

2022

LGBT_SLO_1984 poster
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It began in 1984 and it still goes on today. 35 years of the LGBT movement in Slovenia through the prism of activism and culture.

LGBT_SLO_1984

2022

Balkan Whispers poster
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What happens when contemporary improvised music forms ties with Balkan street musicians? Tomaž Grom, a Slovenian double bassist, composer, improviser and researcher of acoustic potential, took his van and began to look for collaborators on the streets of Maribor, Zagreb, Tuzla, Novi Sad, Priština, Tirana and Skopje. Balkan Whispers is constantly on the brink of misunderstanding, getting lost along paths that are not to be found in contemporary sat-navs. However, despite all obstacles, a group of Balkan street musicians eventually get together for a contemporary music gig.

Balkan Whispers

2018

Balkan Whispers poster
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What happens when contemporary improvised music forms ties with Balkan street musicians? Tomaž Grom, a Slovenian double bassist, composer, improviser and researcher of acoustic potential, took his van and began to look for collaborators on the streets of Maribor, Zagreb, Tuzla, Novi Sad, Priština, Tirana and Skopje. Balkan Whispers is constantly on the brink of misunderstanding, getting lost along paths that are not to be found in contemporary sat-navs. However, despite all obstacles, a group of Balkan street musicians eventually get together for a contemporary music gig.

Balkan Whispers

2018

The Beat of Love poster
5.8

Hearts beat for hip hop until Bruno meets a beautiful violinist Nina and Zoki ends up in a hospital after a fight. Which love will prevail, love for hip hop, love for a girl, or is it possible to have it all?

The Beat of Love

2015

The Beat of Love poster
5.8

Hearts beat for hip hop until Bruno meets a beautiful violinist Nina and Zoki ends up in a hospital after a fight. Which love will prevail, love for hip hop, love for a girl, or is it possible to have it all?

The Beat of Love

2015

In the Year of Hip Hop poster
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In the Year of Hip Hop takes a retrospective look at the Slovenian hip hop/rap music scene. Boris Petkovič explores in great detail the evolution of a music style which, from the very start, has intimately reflected the social situation of its artists. Hip hop has always absorbed the "vibes" of the place where it is taking root, and Slovenia is no exception. According to Petkovič, in today's Slovenia, rap is the one and only form of music that discusses the state of our society and of human relationships without any inhibitions. If rap is not your cup of tea, this film can make you change your mind.

In the Year of Hip Hop

2011

In the Year of Hip Hop poster
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In the Year of Hip Hop takes a retrospective look at the Slovenian hip hop/rap music scene. Boris Petkovič explores in great detail the evolution of a music style which, from the very start, has intimately reflected the social situation of its artists. Hip hop has always absorbed the "vibes" of the place where it is taking root, and Slovenia is no exception. According to Petkovič, in today's Slovenia, rap is the one and only form of music that discusses the state of our society and of human relationships without any inhibitions. If rap is not your cup of tea, this film can make you change your mind.

In the Year of Hip Hop

2011

Forward poster
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The main heroes, or rather anti-heroes, are an inseparable unity. Their symbiosis stems from their handicap. They find the meaning of their daily lives in chasing persons of the opposite sex, which brings them to the "edge" of the world. And that’s where it all comes to an end. Or even begins? A road movie in a wheel-chair.

Forward

1998

Forward poster
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The main heroes, or rather anti-heroes, are an inseparable unity. Their symbiosis stems from their handicap. They find the meaning of their daily lives in chasing persons of the opposite sex, which brings them to the "edge" of the world. And that’s where it all comes to an end. Or even begins? A road movie in a wheel-chair.

Forward

1998

Let Him Be a Basketball Player poster
6.5

Story of Ranta, always hungry, clumsy and infinitely tall teenage boy (so tall that he could tie a necktie for Giraffes). When the gym teacher at his school invites him to play for a basketball team, Ranta's world is turned upside down. So starts an exciting journey, full of unpredictable adventures with his funny friend/manager Smodlak by his side.

Let Him Be a Basketball Player

2017

Shout or you are out poster
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Outcries and echoes of Slovenian national consciousness expressed through sport, memory, and collective emotion. Through archival footage, personal anecdotes, and social reflections, this documentary explores how a nation is forged through the act of cheering—and what (and whom) it leaves on the sidelines in the process.

Shout or you are out

2026

Nara Petrovic = Human poster
7.0

A wild man in wilderness is nothing extraordinary, it is something easily imagined. But how to live in wilderness as an urban, civilised person? How to strike a balance between harmony with nature and participation in the society – without fear, cynicism, regret, frustration? How to retain your dignity in difference? How to live with less without any sacrifice? This is a story of a man who has taken fate into his own hands, radically reducing his dependence on dispensable essential material possessions of the modern society without cutting off his participation in it. This is a story of Nara, Nara Petrovič – Human.

Nara Petrovic = Human

2016

Nara Petrovic = Human poster
7.0

A wild man in wilderness is nothing extraordinary, it is something easily imagined. But how to live in wilderness as an urban, civilised person? How to strike a balance between harmony with nature and participation in the society – without fear, cynicism, regret, frustration? How to retain your dignity in difference? How to live with less without any sacrifice? This is a story of a man who has taken fate into his own hands, radically reducing his dependence on dispensable essential material possessions of the modern society without cutting off his participation in it. This is a story of Nara, Nara Petrovič – Human.

Nara Petrovic = Human

2016

Desperado Tonic poster
7.5

L.V. Strocki is a traveling film projectionist in the best years. He is a representative of the first generation who watched partisan films, lived to see the invasion of the television and ended up among vampires. In the coastal region town he is preparing a film projection on the town square and a television team is making a documentary about this event. During the film projection about the heroines and heroes of an occupied town, a Heroine in a seductive outfit comes to see Strocki in his projection booth.

Desperado Tonic

2004

Desperado Tonic poster
7.5

L.V. Strocki is a traveling film projectionist in the best years. He is a representative of the first generation who watched partisan films, lived to see the invasion of the television and ended up among vampires. In the coastal region town he is preparing a film projection on the town square and a television team is making a documentary about this event. During the film projection about the heroines and heroes of an occupied town, a Heroine in a seductive outfit comes to see Strocki in his projection booth.

Desperado Tonic

2004