Half-Sister | Polsestra

  • Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: Damjan Kozole
  • Slovenia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro 2019
  • 105 minutes
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Two estranged half-sisters from a small coastal town in Slovenia spend the better part of their young lives ignoring each other’s existence. But when circumstances force them to move into the same cramped apartment, Irena and Neza have no choice but to come to terms with the past that binds them, while trying to decide how to build a future for their fractured family.

“It’s not easy to mine a fresh vein in the well-dug world of dysfunctional family, but Slovenian Damjan Kozole does so with his highly entertaining Half-Sister” – Screen.

Filmography: Nightlife (2016), Slovenian Girl (2009).


  • Director Damjan Kozole
  • Production Danijel Hočevar, Labina Mitevska, Jelena Mitrović
  • Script Damjan Kozole, Urša Menart, Ognjen Sviličić
  • Cinematography Miladin Čolaković
  • Editing Jurij Moškon, Atanas Georgiev
  • Festivals Karlovy Vary
  • Actors Urša Menart, Liza Marijina, Jurij Drevenšek, Peter Musevski
  • Source Vertigo, Ljubljana