As I still haven't gotten around to opening the thread on new german films I wish to make now for some months already (partly due to the bad availability of most german films on Video/DVD), and I saw a film from my "other" home country Slovenia last night, I decided to also make one for this small country. 
Not that there is much hope that any of you people gets to see slovenian films outside of Film festivals, this is more a personal enterprise to (re)discover the films of a neglected national cinema. And yes, this is far easier than coping with the thousands of german films, that were made post 1990. Since its independance slovenia has steadily increased its film production, though it's understandable that from a small country with only 2 million inhabitants, there isn't much to expect in terms of quantity. My numbers could be wrong, but as far as i know, about 5 to 8 films (documentary, TV and cinema features) are produced per year, alongside numerous shorts. I will try to cover every slovenian film i can get my fingers on, so there will also be some classics from Yugoslavia, that were made with or by Slovenians.
i have only seen about 15 slovenian films, so my knowledge is still limited, but hopefully it will expand in the future. 
Last year were the celebrations for 100 years of slovenian film, and while the FIAF (The International Federation of Film Archives) held their last congress in the Slovenia's capital Ljubljana, the fact remains that not only is the archive still under-financed, but the Slovenian Cinematheque hasn't been open in over a year now. Formerly this was the only cinema in Slovenia were one could see non-mainstream films, and the quality of its programme could have in fact been placed alongside the best "repertoire" cinemas around the world. Since then some things have improved - amongst others an arthouse-distribution chain along with some new cinemas has been established - but Slovenians nevertheless need their cinematheque. Hopefully it will be reopened soon.
There is one high-quality filmmagazine in slovenia (in fact it's the only one), from which I get most of my informations regarding slovenian films, and because of the rise of DVDs, a number of slovenian is now appearing on DVD. 
So I will try to share my experiences with slovenian films in this thread in the future. Feel free to add comments or reviews. 
The thread will be divided into sections and directors in the future, when the need for it will become obvious.
For now i have 4 slovenian films waiting to be seen on my shelves, and 1 finished watching. Comments in the next post