Writing
Family doctor Maja Križaj relocates with her family from Ljubljana to the rural village of Velika vas after her husband’s financial collapse. Though the setting seems idyllic, the countryside reveals unexpected challenges. The series blends everyday struggles with warmth, humor, and romantic entanglements.
Tom (4 years old), Suzanne (8) and Derek (10) spend the weekend with their grandparents. But nothing is as usual: Grandpa seems to be elsewhere; Tom wonders where Grandma has gone, she who always tells him incredible stories; Derek is hard at work renovating the old apple tree hut. So following in the footsteps of her ancestor, Suzanne improvises herself as a storyteller to illuminate the house with imaginary and wonderful stories and try to fill the absence of Grandmother. The movie is an adaptation of three tales written by Arnost Goldflam.
During a routine morning walk in the forest, a hedgehog finds a luscious red apple and decides to bring it home, however, this causes a dispute between him and his squirrel neighbor who also has her sights set on the delicous red fruit, creating a rift within their friendship.
Fragments of memories from our grandparents take us back to a time when the world smelled of rivers, forests, and freshly fertilized fields. People were resilient, cows and horses were loyal companions, and children were full of curious freedom and inventive solutions, always ready to get up to mischief while working.
Childhood memories of fishing with grandpa grow so vivid they visit the protagonist's present experience.
Brina: Oi, Bor. Grandpa told me that there’s fish in this lake that can bite half your leg off. Bor: Oh, the only fish I can see are small. Brina: But these ones guard the big fish. Those that can bite your leg off.
A hungry and solitary weasel roams the dry landscape, intent on hunting the last remaining birds in a tree. The birds try to keep the tree in balance while the weasel doggedly climbs its trunk. The tree sways, the stomach growls, the weasel persists until it’s too late. A classic anti-hero cartoon – not just for children.
