Janez Burger
Writing
Known For

A man stays alone with his children in a half demolished house in the middle of a desolate field. His wife has just been killed by a grenade in a military battle. He is expecting a new attack. Instead a wandering caravan called Circus Fantasticus stops by the house. They bring along the dying director of the circus. Is it possible for anything beautiful to happen in a landscape of war and death? Can life go on? Is it possible to realize that death does not exist?
Silent Sonata

Pero is a professional funeral speaker in a small Slovenian town. His unique gift is to make every funeral that extra bit special. Pero just can't help turning his eulogies into witty personal confessions that bring the grieving crowd to tears for all the wrong reasons.
Gravehopping

Caught amid a violent corruption affair, a young woman is forced to make an impossible choice between the man she obsessively loves and her newborn son.
Ivan

Black soldiers are captured by red soldiers and shot dead. Then, red soldiers capture black and shoot them. And so on to the bare end.
Reconciliation

A successful stage director plans to put on an outdoor production of a previously unknown play by a famous writer, but is haunted by his past in the form of the actors and crew with whom he has to work.
Ruins

Inspired by a real event, the film follows 27-year-old Lara (newcomer Diana Kolenc), a paramedic intern who helps bring 30-year-old Kristijan (Vito Weiss) into the hospital, after he was brutally beaten on a Facebook live stream that was seen by 20,000 people and no one called the police. Although Kristijan is in a coma, Lara starts to receive video clips from his Facebook profile, showing unidentified persons watching him get beaten. She reports this to detective Borut (Jure Henigman, from A Trip and Dual), who starts an investigation. All the observers, who appear in the video clips, will become Lara’s nightmare in her real life. She soon realizes that she is also an accomplice in this horrible event.
Observing

Dizzy is a perennial student living in a small double room in a hostel. He never seems to study, but spends his time sleeping, watching TV, and drinking. Marko, a studious freshman from the country, is assigned to the other bed in the room, and he is soon joined by his young, very pregnant, girlfriend Ana. Meanwhile, Dizzy's girlfriend Marina is trying to get Dizzy to make a commitment, but he would prefer to continue his idle ways.
Idle Running
The story of a married couple who are visited by an old friend.
Loneliness

How do you describe Marko Brecelj? The author of the documentary, Janez Burger, got away by saying: “Marko Brecelj is poetry. Poetry that is life. And poetry cannot be put in words other that verse.” Marko Brecelj is a point of convergence for the self-centred world of pop culture.
The Elderly Parasite or Who Is Marko Brecelj?

The newest tycoon Robert wants to gets his hands on the land where the driving school stands and build a modern shopping center in it's place instead. It is during this acquisition that lands him in an altercation with Instructor Jože, whose wife left him and Roberts daughter Lija. Lija is determined to go to driving school in spite of his father's prohibition. Besides the tense that portray the ruthlessness of our world, the story offers a range of warm and interesting human relationships seen as part of our everyday lives.
Driving School

A tale about a legendary warrior who saved his Empire.
Martin Krpan
Remake of the first 10 films made by the Lumière brothers, which were screened in Le Salon Indien du Grand Café, Paris, on 28 December 1895. This marked the official beginning of –cinema. Director’s idea was to go to the same places where the Lumière brothers made their first films. In the same hours of the day, with the same light, the same camera angle, and the same lenses. To film the vision of Europe as seen by the Lumière brothers, 120 years later.
The First 10 – Remake

Two typical Slovenian families live in Alpine idyll, until one of the neighbors buys a new car...
On the Sunny Side of the Alps
Janez Burger's FAMácké exercise is exceptional in that it is the only comedic or actually parodic work he has ever made. The screenwriter of this title, Jan Lipšanský, is said to have contributed to this by "reworking" the original material. Thus, instead of a dramatic probe into the inner workings of a disgraced filmmaker whose works are constantly rejected by those who are not even interested in originality, a parody was created.
Television Microscene

Documentary film about punk band Kuzle (1979-1981) from Slovenia, Yugoslavia.
KuZle

Dream Machine is a documentary film made in order to show the passion and dedication of Slovenian manufacturers of extreme motorcycle modifications, which reach the highest laurels in the world, but remain unknown in our country.
Dream Machine

The film was prompted by the fact that in the capital of Slovenia, one of the republics of the former socialist state of Yugoslavia, a magazine was published that saw nine bans or confiscations – more than any other newspaper in the communist Europe. A thorn in the side of the authorities for thirty years, this student magazine brought together young intellectuals who detected possible democratic shifts in the public sphere. Never strictly political, their rebellion invariably had to do with culture and its latest practices in the more liberal countries.