Ivan Ribič

Kekec's Tricks

A story of the witty boy Kekec, his friends and their adventures in the mountains of Slovenia during the summer.

The Invisible Battallon

A group of children from a small Slovenian town form a battalion to fight against the Nazi enemy.

Don't Cry, Peter

Two partisan coalminers need to take three orphan children away from dangerous area to the liberated land.

Good Luck, Kekec

Two boys, Kekec and Rozle, come to serve a farmer, with a blind daughter Mojca, as shepherds. As the night falls, the two boys start talking about a woman who lives in the mountains and is supposed to steal children. Her name is Pehta. In the morning, Kekec, Rozle and Mojca go to an Alpine cottage and Kekec promises Mojca that he will find her a remedy for her eyes. As the girl is picking flowers, Pehta arrives and takes Mojca into her cottage. She wants to keep Mojca because of her singing.

Kala

The only true friend he had was an wolf. Or was it a dog?

Valley of Peace

When the planes bombed a Slovene town, a Slovene boy and a German girl set on a journey towards the valley, in which there is no war. On their way a black American pilot, who jumped of a shoot-down plane, joins them. Although American planes have killed the boy's parents, he accepts the pilot with enthusiasm. The children communicate with him in German and the valley of peace seems like the last paradise place of refuge. The Slovene boy, the German girl, and the American pilot represent a symbolic triangle of peace in this adventure happening in the middle of the War of Liberation.