Janez Burger is a Slovene director, screenwriter and producer.
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Born on 21 March 1965 in Kranj, Slovenia. He grew up in Železniki, now lives and works in Ljubljana . In 1986 started his studies on Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana, but in 1990 quit this studies and moved to study at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) . In 1996 he graduated from film and TV direction at FAMU [1] and moved back to Ljubljana. In Slovenia he established his theatre group Burgerteater and worked for a while in the field of theatre. In 1997 he shot his first feature film Idle running.[2][3] The world premiere took place at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [4] in 1999 in the international competition programme. Idle running had been presented on more than 60 festivals worldwide. In 2002 Burger shot his second movie Ruins. The movie had its' world premiere on the International Film Festival Rotterdam [5] in 2005. Together with Jan Cvitkovič he established the production company Stara Gara [6] in 2003 and was a producer of Cvitkovič's award-winning film [7] Gravehopping. In 2009 he shot his third feature film Silent Sonata. This time it was a movie without dialogues. The film had its' world premiere on the International Film Festival Rotterdam [8] in 2011.