Tijana Zinajić
Directing
Biography
Tijana Zinajić (born December 15, 1973) is a Slovenian theater and film director and actress. Zinajić studied theater directing at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film, and Television in Ljubljana. She directed in various Slovenian theaters and also created a lot in non-institutional theaters. She also acted in films, serials, and theater plays. In 2021 she directed her solo feature-length film debut Bitch, A Derogatory Term for a Woman. She is the mother of four children. She has three sons with her ex-partner, actor Matija Vastl, and her youngest daughter with director Gregor Andolšek.
Known For
Aleksandra is a student from Krško, a small town in Slovenia. She has a plan to conquer the world. Working as a prostitute, her life is heading to where she wants it, but an accidental death has her wrestling with new feelings of fear, loneliness, confusion and responsibility
Slovenian Girl
Show depicts dealing with the problems of women in a humorous way, especially working modern mothers, because it seems that motherhood is a role that everyone, partners, friends, relatives and colleagues and bosses, politicians, media and literature, more or less directly define in.
Moms
The destiny unites two homeless men in the S.O.S. canteen. A failed actor and lost poet begin telling each other the key events from their lives. After an extraordinary twist we become aware that the two men are popular and will participate in a film experiment on the Moon.
Reality
Eva is a young artist who smokes, drinks, occasionally takes drugs, parties and finds no creative inspiration. She also has a strange love affair with her mentor, her best friend is moving to Berlin, her pay check is three months late and above all so is her period. She realizes she needs to change her lifestyle and turns to a web browser for help. Bitch is a film about a period in life where you simply get stuck and do not know how to move on.
Bitch, A Derogatory Term for a Woman
Duša is a young dancer and dance instructor. Torn between a dominant mother, an absent father and a married lover, she is sinking into a typical crisis of the thirties, which gets worse when she starts suspecting that someone has been following her and invading her privacy.
Beneath Her Window
The pursuit of happiness, 22 years later. It was 1991 when three teenagers wrote on the bathroom wall of the K4 nightclub: THE POET, AZRA, JURCEK FOR EVER! Ljubljana 2013, three 35-year-olds, three stories from the toilet. Azra, a successful artist, is all alone and cries. Jurcek, a father to be, doesn't want to be gay. Poet doesn't know whether to roam or not to roam. This film is a cursory look into their lives.
Toilet Stories
Rajko is a professional magician who breaks his arm during a performance, but because of a bureaucratic error, his insurance company refuses to pay his claim. Outraged by the injustice, the insurance agent Marcel arranges a meeting with the head of Tangenta. But, in a fit of anger, Marcel unexpectedly kidnaps the CEO and soon, they are on the run together.