
Directing
Žiga Virc
Place of birth
Novo Mesto, Slovenia
Known for
Directing
Credits
19 titles
Žiga Virc is a Slovenian director and screenwriter. Born in 1987 in Novo mesto, he graduated from the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film, and Television (AGRFT, University of Ljubljana) in Film and Television Directing. After the success of the internet trilogy Tine Strela, he directed the short film Trieste is ours!, while still attending university. The short film upset the Italian political leadership, with the foreign minister at the head. The short received a Student Academy Award 2010 nomination, the AGRFT and the Prešeren Student Award 2010, 4 Goldilocks awards (AGRFT awards), and the national Vesna award for actor in a lead role at the Slovenian Film Festival in 2010. In 2012 he direc…
Known for
7.7The cold war, the space race, and NASA’s moon landing are landmark events that defined an era. But they are also fodder for conspiracy theories. In Houston, We Have a Problem! filmmaker Žiga Virc adds new material to the discussion on both fronts. This intriguing docu-fiction explores the myth of the secret multi-billion-dollar deal behind America’s purchase of Yugoslavia’s clandestine space program in the early 1960s.
Houston, We Have a Problem!
2016
NRA result of an extensive search campaign, in which the inhabitants of Slovenia were invited to send home videos and thereby allow insight into their experience of independence in 1991.
The Summer of '91
2022
NRHome is where fear is. A young, successful woman is the first and only resident of a new development next to a park, where overnight tents with refugees appear. If nobody means no harm, why, then, do their paths cross and the situation gets tragically out of control?
A New Home
2016
In 2009, a group of military enthusiasts led by the commander France (Gojmir Lešnjak - Gojc) decides to occupy Trieste. The group that stages battles performs it at a completely fictional location. However, this hobby is not to the liking of France's wife Marija (Silva Čušin) and his daughter Mateja (Anja Drnovšek). The daughter as a representative of the young generation has no understanding of her father's enthusiasm for partisans, battles and Tito. France is also confronted by the Slovenian police led by the commander Brane (Dario Varga) as Brane forbids France to stage any more battles ... Will the young generation accept our history and will Trieste be ours?
Trieste Is Ours!
2009
NRDuring WWI were among Austo-Hungarian army also corpus of Bosnian soldiers. To keep their rituals, Bosniak Muslims build during their free time a small wooden mosque in village Log pod Mangartom. The documentary reflects in second part to migration from Bosnia in Herzegovina after WWII.
Crescent Over the Edelweiss
2013
NRMarko is 40 years old and still lives with his mother. His life is settled between work and home. His colleague Ajda tries to approach him, but without success. Marko always returns to his mother, without whom he cannot manage. And when it already seems like he will never separate from his mom, she takes matters into her own hands. Will Marko finally grow up?
A Real Man
2010
Film credits
Behind the camera
7.7The cold war, the space race, and NASA’s moon landing are landmark events that defined an era. But they are also fodder for conspiracy theories. In Houston, We Have a Problem! filmmaker Žiga Virc adds new material to the discussion on both fronts. This intriguing docu-fiction explores the myth of the secret multi-billion-dollar deal behind America’s purchase of Yugoslavia’s clandestine space program in the early 1960s.
Houston, We Have a Problem!
2016
7.7The cold war, the space race, and NASA’s moon landing are landmark events that defined an era. But they are also fodder for conspiracy theories. In Houston, We Have a Problem! filmmaker Žiga Virc adds new material to the discussion on both fronts. This intriguing docu-fiction explores the myth of the secret multi-billion-dollar deal behind America’s purchase of Yugoslavia’s clandestine space program in the early 1960s.
Houston, We Have a Problem!
2016
NRA result of an extensive search campaign, in which the inhabitants of Slovenia were invited to send home videos and thereby allow insight into their experience of independence in 1991.
The Summer of '91
2022
NRA result of an extensive search campaign, in which the inhabitants of Slovenia were invited to send home videos and thereby allow insight into their experience of independence in 1991.
The Summer of '91
2022
NRHome is where fear is. A young, successful woman is the first and only resident of a new development next to a park, where overnight tents with refugees appear. If nobody means no harm, why, then, do their paths cross and the situation gets tragically out of control?
A New Home
2016
NRHome is where fear is. A young, successful woman is the first and only resident of a new development next to a park, where overnight tents with refugees appear. If nobody means no harm, why, then, do their paths cross and the situation gets tragically out of control?
A New Home
2016
In 2009, a group of military enthusiasts led by the commander France (Gojmir Lešnjak - Gojc) decides to occupy Trieste. The group that stages battles performs it at a completely fictional location. However, this hobby is not to the liking of France's wife Marija (Silva Čušin) and his daughter Mateja (Anja Drnovšek). The daughter as a representative of the young generation has no understanding of her father's enthusiasm for partisans, battles and Tito. France is also confronted by the Slovenian police led by the commander Brane (Dario Varga) as Brane forbids France to stage any more battles ... Will the young generation accept our history and will Trieste be ours?
Trieste Is Ours!
2009
In 2009, a group of military enthusiasts led by the commander France (Gojmir Lešnjak - Gojc) decides to occupy Trieste. The group that stages battles performs it at a completely fictional location. However, this hobby is not to the liking of France's wife Marija (Silva Čušin) and his daughter Mateja (Anja Drnovšek). The daughter as a representative of the young generation has no understanding of her father's enthusiasm for partisans, battles and Tito. France is also confronted by the Slovenian police led by the commander Brane (Dario Varga) as Brane forbids France to stage any more battles ... Will the young generation accept our history and will Trieste be ours?
Trieste Is Ours!
2009
NRDuring WWI were among Austo-Hungarian army also corpus of Bosnian soldiers. To keep their rituals, Bosniak Muslims build during their free time a small wooden mosque in village Log pod Mangartom. The documentary reflects in second part to migration from Bosnia in Herzegovina after WWII.
Crescent Over the Edelweiss
2013
NRAll Vida wants is a baby. Instead, she is trying not to lose her mind as she juggles the men in her family - her sexist grandfather, her infertile husband, and her dad, a man-child.
Shooting Blanks
2023
NRAll Vida wants is a baby. Instead, she is trying not to lose her mind as she juggles the men in her family - her sexist grandfather, her infertile husband, and her dad, a man-child.
Shooting Blanks
2023
NRMarija, Boko, Irena and other neighbours have a picnic in front of their apartment building. Suddenly a jet-fighter flies overhead. Later Peter, who flew this plane and is the son of Irena and Boko, formerly an officer in the Yugoslav Peoples Army, also arrives. Four years later the war for Slovenia breaks out and Yugoslavia is falling apart. Marjan and Bokos families, which used to be on friendly terms, are now inimical. Marjan wants to shoot the soldiers of the Yugoslav Army with an air gun, and Boko does not know what to do. Things get worse, Peter calls from the airport and an air-raid alarm forces them to seek refuge in a bomb shelter. But Marjan does not want Irena and Boko there, as they are supposed to be enemies of Serbia. Someone burns the Yugoslav flag and everyone has to run outside, while jet fighters are already flying over the apartment buildings.
Sky Above the Town
2008
NRMarija, Boko, Irena and other neighbours have a picnic in front of their apartment building. Suddenly a jet-fighter flies overhead. Later Peter, who flew this plane and is the son of Irena and Boko, formerly an officer in the Yugoslav Peoples Army, also arrives. Four years later the war for Slovenia breaks out and Yugoslavia is falling apart. Marjan and Bokos families, which used to be on friendly terms, are now inimical. Marjan wants to shoot the soldiers of the Yugoslav Army with an air gun, and Boko does not know what to do. Things get worse, Peter calls from the airport and an air-raid alarm forces them to seek refuge in a bomb shelter. But Marjan does not want Irena and Boko there, as they are supposed to be enemies of Serbia. Someone burns the Yugoslav flag and everyone has to run outside, while jet fighters are already flying over the apartment buildings.
Sky Above the Town
2008
8.7In "Stealing the land", parents fight not only for a better future for their children, but also for their own egos. When a schoolyard game sparks a political debate in the kitchen, an evening of absurd conflicts, low blows and unexpected confrontations begins. The film unrestrainedly provokes, entertains and exposes the grotesqueness of a society where the lines between play, education and the real world become dangerously blurred and the rules increasingly confusing - for children and adults alike.
Stealing Land
2025
8.7In "Stealing the land", parents fight not only for a better future for their children, but also for their own egos. When a schoolyard game sparks a political debate in the kitchen, an evening of absurd conflicts, low blows and unexpected confrontations begins. The film unrestrainedly provokes, entertains and exposes the grotesqueness of a society where the lines between play, education and the real world become dangerously blurred and the rules increasingly confusing - for children and adults alike.
Stealing Land
2025
NRIt is 1976 in Yugoslavia. Brotherhood and unity is also evident on the local radio station, where everyone is rejoicing. Namely, they received the award for the most homogeneous collective. The most homogeneous collective, however, soon begins to disintegrate, as it turns out that the award is in fact intended for the best individual.
Our Democracy
2010
NRIt is 1976 in Yugoslavia. Brotherhood and unity is also evident on the local radio station, where everyone is rejoicing. Namely, they received the award for the most homogeneous collective. The most homogeneous collective, however, soon begins to disintegrate, as it turns out that the award is in fact intended for the best individual.
Our Democracy
2010
NR11-year-old Roma girl Milena fights against bloodstained sheets and wedding cakes. Her sister views marriage as liberation, and Milena aims to prove to her that destiny - kismet - is a myth.
Kismet
2025
