Maja Weiss
Biography
Maja Weiss graduated from the Ljubljana Film Academy AGRFT. She is the first Slovenian female film director to direct a full-length fiction film for cinema, titled "Guardian of the Frontier." Her film received several awards, including the Manfred Salzgeber Award for the most innovative European film at the 2002 Berlinale (Panorama) and a nomination for European Discovery at the 2002 European Film Awards (EFA). Maja Weiss' extensive filmography includes over 40 films screened at more than 150 festivals worldwide. She is also recognized as one o
Maja Weiss graduated from the Ljubljana Film Academy AGRFT. She is the first Slovenian female film director to direct a full-length fiction film for cinema, titled "Guardian of the Frontier." Her film received several awards, including the Manfred Salzgeber Award for the most innovative European film at the 2002 Berlinale (Panorama) and a nomination for European Discovery at the 2002 European Film Awards (EFA). Maja Weiss' extensive filmography includes over 40 films screened at more than 150 festivals worldwide. She is also recognized as one of the most prominent Slovenian documentary filmmakers. Her documentaries have been honoured at various prestigious film festivals, including DOK Leipzig and IDFA (nomination), Durban, Zaragoza, Rotterdam, Krakow, and Telluride. In 2020, she was presented with a lifetime achievement award for her contributions to documentaries at the DocuDok Maribor Documentary Film Festival.
Gallery (12)
Filmography (57)
Direction (42)
Writing (32)
Cast (7)
Production (4)
Editing (4)
Cinematography (3)
Production design (1)
Sound design (1)
Directing department (4)
Camera department (4)
Other (2)
Sound department (1)
Awards
Viktorji 2012
Viktorji 2009
Viktorji 2009
Viktorji 2005
Viktorji 2003
Maja Weiss je pokazala močan in oseben režijski slog, katerega razpoznavnost in odlika je tudi ukvarjanje s sodobnimi relevantnimi temami, kot so nestrpnost, nacionalizem in strah do drugačnosti.
category: Alpine and foreign cultures
To create this exceptional work, the passion and courage loudly professed by so many film-makers in the adventure field was a mere conditio sine qua non, silently accepted as the undertaking began and uncommented when it was completed. In spite of crippling shooting conditions and an all but insane level of physical risk, the result is a document of professional appearance, written in a very personal hand. This film finally blasts a window into a wall of brutally imposed isolation no-one had dared to penetrate for more than a decade.
Dokumentarno delo nam posreduje iskreno zavzetost za usodo nubskega naroda, podvrženega strahotnemu genocidu. Avtorja sta dokumentarne fragmente uspela preliti v filmsko prepričljivo in humanitarno dejanje.
Viktorji 1999
Gre za resnično moderen dokumentarni film, road movie s smislom, ki je hkrati oseben in družbeno reflektiven. V tem težkem žanru je režiserki uspelo zaokrožiti strukturo, kljub barviti množici socialno in nacionalno mešanih likov, ki delujejo spontano in neposredno, saj avtorica ni režirala likov, marveč film.
Best Narrative Short Film - 15 minutes and Over
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