Hotel Alcohol
by Jan Cvitkovič
Hotel Alkohol, fiction, digital DCP, 1,85:1, 25, c, 105 min
SI, DE, HR
Upcoming
Bako decides to seek treatment for alcoholism in a psychiatric hospital. There he meets Medea, a drug addict, and Drago, a naive and good-natured chess-loving psychiatric patient. The domineering head physician at the hospital organizes a bizarre “Olympics”. Our protagonists form a team named Hotel Alcohol, and after their defeat they leave the hospital, setting off on a journey towards the sea. This journey ends in an unexpected place, in an unexpected way.
Jan Cvitkovič is the screenwriter and director of several feature films: Bread and Milk (2001), Gravehopping (2005), Arheo (2011), Šiška Deluxe (2015), The Basics of Killing (2017), and Hotel Alcohol (in distribution in 2026) as well as numerous short and documentary films. His films have been screened at more than 200 internationally recognized festivals and have won over 60 awards. In October 2025, he received the prestigious FICE Award in Italy for his film oeuvre.
Since childhood, my life has somehow intertwined with people with special needs, alcoholics, psychiatric patients, addicts. I want to demystify their world, break taboos and bring it closer to the viewer—also through the prism of humour. I feel that condemning “marginalized people” is a barren distancing from oneself, while moving closer to them can be an act of moving closer to the essence.
Stara Gara is a renowned Slovenian film production company with a strong portfolio of projects in development and production. Over the past two decades, it has built a solid production team and an extensive network of collaborators across Slovenia, Eastern Europe and wider Europe. As a delegated producer, it has been involved in nine feature films and numerous minority co-productions that premiered at major international festivals including Venice, Cannes, San Sebastián, Rotterdam and Sarajevo.…