International documentary film festival
April 14 - 21, 2024
Kaptol Boutique Cinema, Zagreb

International documentary film festival
April 14 - 21, 2024
Kaptol Boutique Cinema, Zagreb

Line Rider

Simon Intihar

Line Rider

By his own admission, Boštjan Čadež hates the limelight. Living a quiet life in Slovenia in the early 2000’s, Bostjan filled his days with his creative passions of art, music and robotics. Little could he know, all that was about to change. In September 2006, Boštjan innocently uploaded his simple, self-made video game concept - Line Rider - to the internet. One month later, ‘Line Rider’ had become a world-wide viral sensation. For Boštjan “going viral” became a nightmare of shady business people and too many fan emails; driving him to self-medicate with booze and bad behaviour. But now, over a decade later and with the rights to his creation finally restored, can an unwilling cultural icon find peace with his creation, and perhaps even with himself? 

Slovenia 2023, '24

DIRECTOR: Simon Intihar

SCENARIO: Simon Intihar

CAMERA: Simon Intihar, Matevz Semprimoznik

MONTAGE: Simon Intihar

MUSIC: Mark Guiliana, Blaz Gracar, Bostjan Cadez

PRODUCERS: David Sipos, Pete Ireland, Simon Intihar, Jani Pirnat

PRODUCTION: Studio Siposh, Opening Act Films, Muzej in galerike mesta Ljublana

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

Krakow FF (2023)
Festival of Slovenian Film (2023)
Flickerfest (2024)

Simon Intihar

Simon Intihar

Simon Intihar is a writer, director and producer from Slovenia. Simon Graduated in Film and TV directing at UL AGRFT in Ljubljana and has directed several short films such as his graduation short Kopanje (Diving-In) (2014) and Nisi Pozabil  (You Didn’t Forget) (2016), his acclaimed documentary Line Rider (2023), and his upcoming Slovenian Film Centre funded short Container (2024). His work has been screened at over 50 film festivals around the world, including the Oscar-accredited Krakow, Flickerfest and DocEdgeNZ Film Festivals - plus Cucalorus FF, Motovun FF, ZOOM-Zblizenia FF, CinEast Film Festival, SEE Film Festival LA, Tirana FF, Jagran FF etc., winning several international awards. He attended the Talents Sarajevo program as a director in 2017 and the Berlinale Talents programme in 2019. Simon regularly works on various film, video and TV projects, and is also an active musician (drummer). 

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