Lost Years
by Áron Horváth Botka
Izgubljena leta, fiction, c, 90 min
SI, RS, HU
Upcoming
Borš, a grocery store clerk from a small Serbian town in the late 90’s, meets Tana, a young woman from Hungary, and joins her on a quest to find her lost backpack. On their journey through the Serbian countryside, an unexpected friendship blossoms which changes the directions of both of their lives.
Aron Horvath was born in 1991 in Slovenia to a bilingual family and grew up as part of the Hungarian minority. He graduated in film directing in 2016 at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, followed by a master’s degree in film studies in 2021.
Since 2015 he has directed a number of short films, including his latest film “Bits” which premiered in 2020 at the 23rd Festival of Slovenian Film where it won the Best Short Film award and later screened at numerous festiva…
“Lost Years” is a story that has been on my mind for the past ten years. I began writing it as a creative exercise within the road-movie genre, but it soon became clear that something far more personal was taking shape. The script is based on fragments of childhood memories: carefree summers spent at my grandmother’s house in Vojvodina, and the sense of safety my family gave me even then, during the uncertain period that marked the Balkans in the 1990s. At first, these memories felt ordinary—pe…
Temporama has been working with the new generation of up-and-coming Slovenian film-makers since 2013. They’ve produced a number of short and experimental films, music videos, and webseries before transitioning to feature films with “Consequences” (Toronto IFF 2018). Their recent credits include the documentary film “Alpe-Adria Underground!” (DokuFest Prizren 2024) and “Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song” (Torino FF 2025), with several other titles currently in pr…