Matej Peljhan was born in 1967 and spent his entire childhood in a small village Col above the Vipava Valley, Slovenia. At the age of 10, while playing with his friends, he experiences a severe accident with some explosive devices, scattered around during the World War II. He suffers numerous injuries, the most severes being the loss of his right arm and an eye. He finishes elementary school in his home town and some years later the secondary school »Jurij Vega« in Idrija, during all this period undergoing painful medical treatment and rehabilitation. He decides to study psychology at the University of Ljubljana and finishes his studies in 1992. Very soon he finds his first employment but decides to proceed with his studies in the field of clinical psychology, which helps him a lot in his daily work with the children with special needs. He lives in Ljubljana with his wife and their three children.
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With the support of the Eurimages Fund of the Council of Europe
