Iza Strehar
Writing
Known For

A 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

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

11-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

All 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

Maja tries to alleviate her addiction to alcohol and depression by talking to the duck she keeps in her bathtub.
Gasping

In "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 the Land

Underpaid and undermined, a Slovenian village pastor pours her heart and raw personal trauma into ministering to her parishioners. But as the cracks in her private life deepen, the woman beneath the collar must choose between true faith and real healing.
Woman of God

In the mountains of central Afghanistan, a group of Afghani teenage girls are challenging cultural stereotypes, by learning to ski and bringing it to a professional level through extensive training in Europe.