The film won the National Film Board of Canada 's Best Documentary Award at the 1996 Vancouver International Film Festival . The jury issued a statement : " Predictions of Fire is intellectual dynamite . It explodes the icons and myths of communism and capitalism . Out of the shattered history of Slovenia , this film constructs a new way of looking at art , politics , and religion . " In the early 1980s , an industrial rock band named Laibach emerged from SR Slovenia , a Yugoslav constituent republic . Incorporating what many took to be fascist imagery in their performances , they shocked this small Balkan republic and , after signing a recording contract with London 's Mute Records label , went on to shock the rest of the world as well . Laibach was soon joined by a painting group , IRWIN , and theater group , Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre , at the helm of one of the most ambitious and cutting-edge arts collectives in the world . Modeled after a socialist state bureaucracy , and calling themselves Neue Slowenische Kunst ( New Slovenian Arts , or NSK ) , these three groups became the titular heads of a micro-state within the independent republic of Slovenia . NSK recently began issuing its own passports and opened embassies and consulates in Moscow , Berlin , Ghent , Florence , and in the US
Vancouver International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
Predictions of Fire