Hotel Alcohol

by Jan Cvitkovič

Hotel Alkohol, fiction, digital DCP, 1,85:1, 25, c, 105 min
In progress

SI, DE, HR

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.

screenwriter
Jan Cvitkovič
director
Jan Cvitkovič
producer
Slađana Vide
co-producers
Torsten Neumann, Lana Matić, Boris T. Matić
associate producer
Igor Prinčič
director of photography
Jure Černec
music composers
Edin Džambić, Niko Novak
film editors
Miloš Kalusek, Jan Cvitkovič
production designer
Vasja Kokelj
costume designers
Polonca Valentinčič, Elizabeta Njari
key make-up artist
Tinka Prpar
sound designer
Gordon Krei

featuring
Gregor Baković, Medea Novak, Drago Milinović, Mojca Fatur, Ivo Barišič, Irena Kovačević, Timon Šturbej, Ludvik Bagari, Primož Pirnat, Nataša Burger, Ivo Ban

production
Staragara
co-production
Independent Partners Filmverlag, Propeler Film, Solsticij
in collaboration with
Film Studio Viba Film
co-funding
Slovenian Film Centre, Nordmedia, RTV Slovenija, Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Creative Europe - MEDIA
distribution
Fivia

Stara Gara
Slađana Vide
sladana@solsticij.si

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. In recent years, Stara Gara has established partnerships with Tramal Films, SPOK Films and Staragara IT.