Directing

Miha Čelar

Known for

Directing

Credits

22 titles

Known for

Sons of Bora poster
8.0

As the bora wind blows from the east, so from Slovenia to Italy came both the Karst shepherd dog and the wolf that has returned to populate the Alps. The much debated question of the relationship between humans and large predators is addressed here from an unprecedented point of view: that of the shepherd dog. The camera follows the training of a dog according to the ancient method that will prepare it to care for an entire flock by itself. After training, he will be welcomed by a family whose previous shepherd dog was killed in the pasture by a bear. At the same time, it tells of the journey of the most famous Slovenian wolf, Slavc, who, covering more than a thousand kilometres, reached the Alps, stopping in the Lessinia mountains. A balanced, unforced documentation that calmly recounts the theme of coexistence with the "children of the bora", be they dogs or wolves.

Sons of Bora

2021

iIsland poster
NR

iIsland is a feature documentary about the last 13 inhabitants of the island of Biševo and their struggles to save the island community from extinction. Lada, who is a yoga instructor, and Lucio, who works as a cook on a ship, have established a city council for the island to obtain legal status. They hope this will protect it from the aggressive tourist industry, which wants to turn the old school building into a tourist centre with multimedia, touch-screen presentations.

iIsland

2018

Codelli poster
NR

Codelli is a feature-length docudrama about a little-known film project by Slovenian inventor Baron Anton Codelli. Together with filmmaker and adventurer Hans Schomburgk he filmed in Togo in 1914 the first live-action film in Africa, which possibly inspired James Rice Burroughs for his novel on Tarzan. In the company of three Codelli’s descendants and actor Primož Bezjak, we traced the fate of Codelli’s film, brought the remains from Togo and Berlin to Ljubljana and used the Green Screen technology to bring to life 15 live-action scenes based on 600 Codelli’s museum photographs.

Codelli

2017

Bobri - Train poster
NR

The short animated film based on Janez Jalen's fantasy novel Bobri, which takes its material from prehistory, from the period when the Mostiščar or Koliščarji culture flourished in the Ljubljana Marshes by the large lake.

Bobri - Train

2016

Amir poster
7.0

This film portrays aspects of an Afghan refugee's life - his living conditions in Peshawar and his longing to return to Herat. It is also about Amir's life as a professional musician and his relationships with other musicians in Peshawar.

Amir

2002

Two Brothers, Two Sisters poster
NR

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Žagar family in Notranjska region developed an international timber industry. The timber concern was inherited by young brothers Line and Franci. Line, impressed by the then Soviet idea of ​​a just society, became a communist, while Franci tried to preserve the family fortune. World War II divided the world and also put the Žagar brothers on opposite sides. Eighty years later, Franci's daughters - sisters Monika and Barbara Žagar - explore in the film what happened to their uncle and father. The animated documentary about the Žagar family is a story about the tension between one's own identity and ideology.

Two Brothers, Two Sisters

2024

Behind the camera

Sons of Bora poster
8.0

As the bora wind blows from the east, so from Slovenia to Italy came both the Karst shepherd dog and the wolf that has returned to populate the Alps. The much debated question of the relationship between humans and large predators is addressed here from an unprecedented point of view: that of the shepherd dog. The camera follows the training of a dog according to the ancient method that will prepare it to care for an entire flock by itself. After training, he will be welcomed by a family whose previous shepherd dog was killed in the pasture by a bear. At the same time, it tells of the journey of the most famous Slovenian wolf, Slavc, who, covering more than a thousand kilometres, reached the Alps, stopping in the Lessinia mountains. A balanced, unforced documentation that calmly recounts the theme of coexistence with the "children of the bora", be they dogs or wolves.

Sons of Bora

2021

Sons of Bora poster
8.0

As the bora wind blows from the east, so from Slovenia to Italy came both the Karst shepherd dog and the wolf that has returned to populate the Alps. The much debated question of the relationship between humans and large predators is addressed here from an unprecedented point of view: that of the shepherd dog. The camera follows the training of a dog according to the ancient method that will prepare it to care for an entire flock by itself. After training, he will be welcomed by a family whose previous shepherd dog was killed in the pasture by a bear. At the same time, it tells of the journey of the most famous Slovenian wolf, Slavc, who, covering more than a thousand kilometres, reached the Alps, stopping in the Lessinia mountains. A balanced, unforced documentation that calmly recounts the theme of coexistence with the "children of the bora", be they dogs or wolves.

Sons of Bora

2021

iIsland poster
NR

iIsland is a feature documentary about the last 13 inhabitants of the island of Biševo and their struggles to save the island community from extinction. Lada, who is a yoga instructor, and Lucio, who works as a cook on a ship, have established a city council for the island to obtain legal status. They hope this will protect it from the aggressive tourist industry, which wants to turn the old school building into a tourist centre with multimedia, touch-screen presentations.

iIsland

2018

iIsland poster
NR

iIsland is a feature documentary about the last 13 inhabitants of the island of Biševo and their struggles to save the island community from extinction. Lada, who is a yoga instructor, and Lucio, who works as a cook on a ship, have established a city council for the island to obtain legal status. They hope this will protect it from the aggressive tourist industry, which wants to turn the old school building into a tourist centre with multimedia, touch-screen presentations.

iIsland

2018

Codelli poster
NR

Codelli is a feature-length docudrama about a little-known film project by Slovenian inventor Baron Anton Codelli. Together with filmmaker and adventurer Hans Schomburgk he filmed in Togo in 1914 the first live-action film in Africa, which possibly inspired James Rice Burroughs for his novel on Tarzan. In the company of three Codelli’s descendants and actor Primož Bezjak, we traced the fate of Codelli’s film, brought the remains from Togo and Berlin to Ljubljana and used the Green Screen technology to bring to life 15 live-action scenes based on 600 Codelli’s museum photographs.

Codelli

2017

Codelli poster
NR

Codelli is a feature-length docudrama about a little-known film project by Slovenian inventor Baron Anton Codelli. Together with filmmaker and adventurer Hans Schomburgk he filmed in Togo in 1914 the first live-action film in Africa, which possibly inspired James Rice Burroughs for his novel on Tarzan. In the company of three Codelli’s descendants and actor Primož Bezjak, we traced the fate of Codelli’s film, brought the remains from Togo and Berlin to Ljubljana and used the Green Screen technology to bring to life 15 live-action scenes based on 600 Codelli’s museum photographs.

Codelli

2017

Bobri - Train poster
NR

The short animated film based on Janez Jalen's fantasy novel Bobri, which takes its material from prehistory, from the period when the Mostiščar or Koliščarji culture flourished in the Ljubljana Marshes by the large lake.

Bobri - Train

2016

Amir poster
7.0

This film portrays aspects of an Afghan refugee's life - his living conditions in Peshawar and his longing to return to Herat. It is also about Amir's life as a professional musician and his relationships with other musicians in Peshawar.

Amir

2002

Amir poster
7.0

This film portrays aspects of an Afghan refugee's life - his living conditions in Peshawar and his longing to return to Herat. It is also about Amir's life as a professional musician and his relationships with other musicians in Peshawar.

Amir

2002

Two Brothers, Two Sisters poster
NR

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Žagar family in Notranjska region developed an international timber industry. The timber concern was inherited by young brothers Line and Franci. Line, impressed by the then Soviet idea of ​​a just society, became a communist, while Franci tried to preserve the family fortune. World War II divided the world and also put the Žagar brothers on opposite sides. Eighty years later, Franci's daughters - sisters Monika and Barbara Žagar - explore in the film what happened to their uncle and father. The animated documentary about the Žagar family is a story about the tension between one's own identity and ideology.

Two Brothers, Two Sisters

2024

Two Brothers, Two Sisters poster
NR

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Žagar family in Notranjska region developed an international timber industry. The timber concern was inherited by young brothers Line and Franci. Line, impressed by the then Soviet idea of ​​a just society, became a communist, while Franci tried to preserve the family fortune. World War II divided the world and also put the Žagar brothers on opposite sides. Eighty years later, Franci's daughters - sisters Monika and Barbara Žagar - explore in the film what happened to their uncle and father. The animated documentary about the Žagar family is a story about the tension between one's own identity and ideology.

Two Brothers, Two Sisters

2024

Tatjana in Motherland poster
NR

Tatjana in Motherland is a partly animated documentary essay about Slovenia and its men. It is a “documentary-tale” of how Slovenian society has been disintegrating in an invisible way. The story will unveil a Slovenian Oedipus archetype of the possessive martyr mother type and her relationship with her son, in which she through emotional manipulation, by constantly creating feelings of guilt, burdens her son to such a degree, that he remains dependent on her for the rest of his life. In order to put this relationship to its best use, all Slovenian governing structures have elevated mother figure on the level of a saint and have assigned to it the cultish role. The result of the Slovenian maternal cult is a typical Slovene male, who is pathologically obsessed with his mother.

Tatjana in Motherland

2014

Tatjana in Motherland poster
NR

Tatjana in Motherland is a partly animated documentary essay about Slovenia and its men. It is a “documentary-tale” of how Slovenian society has been disintegrating in an invisible way. The story will unveil a Slovenian Oedipus archetype of the possessive martyr mother type and her relationship with her son, in which she through emotional manipulation, by constantly creating feelings of guilt, burdens her son to such a degree, that he remains dependent on her for the rest of his life. In order to put this relationship to its best use, all Slovenian governing structures have elevated mother figure on the level of a saint and have assigned to it the cultish role. The result of the Slovenian maternal cult is a typical Slovene male, who is pathologically obsessed with his mother.

Tatjana in Motherland

2014

Kameleoni - The Beatles of Former Yugoslavia poster
7.0

A musical-documentary film about five high school students from Koper who drove Yugoslavia crazy in the late 1960s. Despite a handful of their own original compositions, they filled halls and football stadiums with more than 10,000 visitors. The Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Center and the Tivoli Hall were opened in Ljubljana. They laid the foundations of the Yugoslav music industry. The Kameleoni pulled back the Yugoslav Iron Curtain and helped the entire generation break free from the shackles of ideological and cultural post-war monumentalism.

Kameleoni - The Beatles of Former Yugoslavia

2019

Kameleoni - The Beatles of Former Yugoslavia poster
7.0

A musical-documentary film about five high school students from Koper who drove Yugoslavia crazy in the late 1960s. Despite a handful of their own original compositions, they filled halls and football stadiums with more than 10,000 visitors. The Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Center and the Tivoli Hall were opened in Ljubljana. They laid the foundations of the Yugoslav music industry. The Kameleoni pulled back the Yugoslav Iron Curtain and helped the entire generation break free from the shackles of ideological and cultural post-war monumentalism.

Kameleoni - The Beatles of Former Yugoslavia

2019

Goodnight, Irene poster
NR

An extraordinary love story of Irena and Avguštin Maučec from Turnišče, a village in the region of Prekmurje, Slovenia. In the 1990s, soon after their wedding Irena and Avguštin had a bad car accident that left Irena with a serious brain injury. Failing to wake up, she was given up on by the doctors to die a slow death. Avguštin would not agree: he took her home and has since been giving her selfless care. After years of battling the healthcare system, he decided at the age of 40 to study law. He is now about to take his bar exams, and find a job to be able to take proper care of Irena.

Goodnight, Irene

2017

Cannabis Sets You Free poster
NR

A documentary essay about activists from Slovenia, former Yugoslavia and other EU and world wide countries who have dedicated their lives to cannabis use. While some have fallen foul of the law, all of them have somehow gone down the road of the cannabis revolution.

Cannabis Sets You Free

2022

Cannabis Sets You Free poster
NR

A documentary essay about activists from Slovenia, former Yugoslavia and other EU and world wide countries who have dedicated their lives to cannabis use. While some have fallen foul of the law, all of them have somehow gone down the road of the cannabis revolution.

Cannabis Sets You Free

2022

No artwork available
NR

Short movie.

Cipher: Hidden Camera

2001

No artwork available
NR

Short movie.

Cipher: Hidden Camera

2001

Reinventing the Wheel Cross-Media Documentary Project poster
NR

Combining animation, a feature-length documentary and interactive comic art, the Reinventing the Wheel cross-media documentary project tells the story of the biggest historical phenomenon in Slovenia – the oldest wooden wheel in the world, which was discovered in the Ljubljana marshes in 2003. The Animation Bobri voz uses legendary characters from Janez Jalen's novel Bobri to take us to the Stone Age. Then, a feature documentary film Reinventing the Wheel gives us an insight into the phenomenon of the wheel. With the comic strip Bobri voz and its smart phone app, we come full circle, back into the animation.

Reinventing the Wheel Cross-Media Documentary Project

2016

Reinventing the Wheel Cross-Media Documentary Project poster
NR

Combining animation, a feature-length documentary and interactive comic art, the Reinventing the Wheel cross-media documentary project tells the story of the biggest historical phenomenon in Slovenia – the oldest wooden wheel in the world, which was discovered in the Ljubljana marshes in 2003. The Animation Bobri voz uses legendary characters from Janez Jalen's novel Bobri to take us to the Stone Age. Then, a feature documentary film Reinventing the Wheel gives us an insight into the phenomenon of the wheel. With the comic strip Bobri voz and its smart phone app, we come full circle, back into the animation.

Reinventing the Wheel Cross-Media Documentary Project

2016