Secret Past

Janko Potlacek is an old, but vivid retiree who tries to enhance his modest pension by making various combos. He gets help from Franc, the younger and fresh pensioner who is reluctant but handy.

Josie's creative motivation is challenged as she struggles to balance her artistic aspirations with taking care of her aging grandfather, Nathan, in the early stages of his Alzheimers. New doors open when an art dealer named Ian shows interest in more than just her work. Josie is forced to come to terms with decisions that could not only change her life, but those close to her. Poetic imagery and tone weaves this inspirational narrative of rediscovery in ones personal goals with the journey to capturing what truly inspires and helps each connect to the world around them.

The new director of the mental hospital in Gorizia visits the wards disguised as a workman. After observing a series of disturbing events, he decides to take advantage of his position and change the way the hospital is organized. He abolishes containment therapy, straitjackets, electric shock treatment and ice-cold showers. Gradually, all doors open. So much so that, one summer's evening, the director invites all the patients into the hospital grounds and suggests they knock down the wall that separates the city from the mental hospital. Everything has to take place in one night to avoid bureaucratic obstacles and institutional reactions. In this particular and poetic way, five hundred patients work together to break down the wall that hides their condition from the world.

A law graduate, who is a robber by night and taxi driver by day, is caught up in a vortex when he decides to quit his past and lead an upright life.

Beggining in La Higuera, 1967 where the body of Ernesto Che Guevara is laid out and later secretly buried, Di buen dia a papa returns to this location over ten year intervals to focus on three generations of women affected by the event.