Lost Years

by Áron Horváth Botka

Izgubljena leta, fiction, c
In progress

SI, RS, HU

Borš, a clerk in a grocery store set in a small Serbian town during the late 90’s, meets a young woman Tana and together they embark on a quest to find her lost backpack. On their journey through the Serbian countryside, an unexpected friendship blossoms and they both change their life directions.

screenwriter
Áron Horváth Botka
director
Áron Horváth Botka
producers
Jerca Jerič, Andraž Jerič
co-producers
Miloš Ivanović, Andrijana Sofranić Šućur
associate producer
Sara Laszlo
director of photography
Domen Martinčič
production designer
Jelena Terzić Stanković
costume designers
Ina Ferlan

production
Temporama
co-production
RTV Slovenija, Set Sail Films, Campfilm
in collaboration with
Film Studio Viba Film
co-funding
Slovenian Film Centre, Creative Europe - MEDIA, Re-Act, Film Center Serbia

Temporama
Andraž Jerič
andraz@temporama.si

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 festivals across the world. His upcoming film Lost Years will be his feature-length directorial debut.

Temporama was established in 2013 to provide support for the new generation of up-and-coming Slovenian film-makers. Since then, they’ve produced a number of short and experimental films, music videos, and webseries. In 2018 their first feature film Consequences, written and directed by Darko Štante, premiered at Toronto IFF, followed by a considerable festival and distribution success. The most recent focus of the company has been on producing feature films, like debuts Kaj + Ester Forever (2023) by Tosja Flaker Berce and This is a Robbery! (2024) by Gregor Andolšek, with several other titles in production or development, but they also remain active in short form, documentary film, television content, and experimental cinema.