“My name is Janez Janša” will be screened four times in four days at the Zagreb film festival! But let’s start from the beginning. Our documentary is one of the 16 selected for the documentary program at the 10th Zagreb film festival (ZFF). The film’s international premiere will take place just a fortnight after its first screening at the Slovenian Film Festival – that “bloody” Sunday at 10.30 a.m., remember?! And that’s not all. Ours is the only documentary in the program that will be screened four times (two screenings on October 18th and one on October 19th and 21st). Screenings will take place at the Grič Cinema, Dokukino DIC and Museum of Contemporary Art. Prime time, this time!

As quite some of the documentaries at this year’s ZFF represent artistic endeavors, Janez Janša will be in good company: Marina Abramović and Ai Weiwei among others.

Not a bad way to start…
All documentaries will compete for the Golden Pram Award and the author of the best film will receive the amount of 1,000 €. So keep your fingers crossed! For Weiwei, of course

I wonder how the movie will be perceived abroad. I’ll keep you posted on this.

Will the critics differ much from the Slovenian ones?

My Name Is Janez Janša is certainly one of the best Slovenian documentaries in recent years. It brings a seemingly abstract, philosophical issue into the field of social reflection and concretises it to its foundations. As such it will further trigger a multitude of interpretations, because it constantly moves on slippery ground, keeping the viewer in suspense. In addition, it realizes the medium of documentary filmmaking excellently: although it could be conditionally labelled a “talking heads” film, these heads are incorporated in an original and extremely dynamic form of presentation. The film would undoubtedly deserve the best documentary award at this year’s Festival of Slovenian Film…

— Ženja Leiler, Pogledi, 10.10.2012

Click, Janez

P.S. If you are in Zagreb come around. Janez, Janez and I will be there only on the 18th