Aljaž Jovanovič
The Space Among Us is coming of age drama, set in a rural, picturesque town Kostanjevica na Krki.
Špela graduated in Art History and has never had a steady job. Unlike her two best friends, who have moved out of Slovenia years ago with no plans to return, she is determined to stay in Ljubljana. When even her longtime boyfriend gets a job abroad she moves back in with her parents and her grandma. But Špela wants to grow up and cut the cord instead of delaying her already well overdue adulthood any longer.
Tristan wakes up to an unusual morning where nothing is as it should be. First, his washing powder disappears, then the washing machine, and there is also his peculiar neighbor Klara, who adds to his confusion. Tristan gradually loses his head and all of his belongings.
In the middle of uninhabited nature a stranded man Krištof (62) rescues Andrej (23) from the car, who tried to commit suicide. He takes him to the farm, where Andrej slowly comes to himself. Without words, a genuine link between them is attached, which, together with the idyllic environment, again pulls Andrej back into life.
The two competing wine-grower families, Dolinar and Rozman hate each other. Ivan Dolinar is convinced that Stane Rozman has betrayed him and caused a death of his wife Maria. Until the real dark truth comes out, their children who fall in love with each other will have to overcome the family hatred.
Married to a wealthy meat dealer, Mojca (45) is worshiper of fine art and mother of two grown-up kids. Desperate for love and passion, she becomes an object of video installation which her ex-lover and now renown conceptual artist Milos is completing with a help of her daughter Nika. Mojca’s hunt for love becomes a wild journey for everyone involved in this film, including the crew shooting the film Installation of Love…
Leo is an Italian who lives in Slovenia. Vučko is a Bosnian who arrived to Slovenia as a child refugee. Leo continues to stay in Slovenia because of his ex-wife Tanja and his son Luka, hoping that they can become a family again. When the bank refuses to grant a loan Leo and Vučko would need to renovate their restaurant, they have no choice but to accept an offer from Gianni, a swindler. They are tasked with stealing Gianni’s truck so that he can collect the insurance money. However, instead of stealing Gianni’s truck, Leo and Vučko mistakenly steal a truck full of refugees. Vučko the refugee and Leo the migrant themselves thus inadvertently become responsible for destinies of people similarly unfortunate as they had once been. In order to solve their financial problems, they decide to sell the refugees. At first it seems that they are not indifferent towards these people, but with each passing day there is less and less humanity left in Leo and Vučko.
