The Ljubljana International Film Festival Liffe once again ensured that November will fly by. The program of the Liffe festival 2015, which will take place between November 11 and 22, is filled with excellent and diverse films. "I like to imagine that we have raised the audience enough to trust us, and we don't have to look only for films that won some awards," said Simon Popek recently, who has been in charge of the content of the biggest film festival in our country for the ninth year. . Check out the film program he has prepared for us for the 26th Liffe.
The documentary film festival has come of age and will once again offer an overview of the best of current documentary production. In cooperation with Amnesty International, at the end of the festival, the award for the best film on the topic of human rights will be awarded, for which Censored Voices, Sonita, The Fog of Srebrenica, Children of the Transition and Lampedusa in Winter will compete, and the closing film of the festival will be a documentary with the interesting title Chuck Norris against communism.
The 4th short film festival is behind you, and you are preparing the fifth. What was the response and quality of the material received? Luka: Behind us, yes...That sounds good! Over 70 film and video products arrive at the festival every year, including from abroad
The 2017 Francophone Film Festival is approaching, which will begin on March 20, when we celebrate International Francophonie Day all over the world. It will run until March 26, 2017.
The Slovenian youth film Nika, directed by Slobodan Maksimović, will have its world premiere at the International Children's and Youth Film Festival in Zlin, which will take place from May 27 to June 3, 2016, and the action film, which deals with the theme of karting, is coming to Slovenia in October 2016.
BOFF 2016, the 10th Bov film festival about outdoor sports and nature, will this time be a four-day event. It will take place between December 27 and 30, 2016. 38 films will be screened in three competitive and two non-competitive categories. Even the youngest will come into their own.
Slovenian film director Mitja Okorn reaps success after success with "Runaways". Now, the renowned American film magazine Variety has included him in the list of 10 European filmmakers to watch out for this year. At the same time, he reveals that his next project will be the film Life in a Year, which will star model and actress Cara Delevingne and singer and actor Jaden Smith, son of Will Smith.
In the movie business, 60 hours is practically nothing. In the MUVIT/6X60 short filmmaking marathon, however, that's all you have to write, shoot, edit and deliver a 6- to 8-minute film. At the third edition of the MUVIT/6X60 (2016) marathon, especially young people shone, who managed to create real little masterpieces in 60 hours. The best four films can be seen below.
The 72nd Venice Film Festival, which is organized every year by La Biennale di Venezia, will take place this year from September 2 to 12 at the Lido in Venice. The purpose of the festival is to raise awareness and promote various aspects of international film in all its forms - as art, as entertainment and as industry - in the spirit of freedom and dialogue. As a contribution to a better understanding of the history of film, the festival also organizes retrospectives and tributes to major artists. This year, the festival will be opened by the film Everest, signed by the Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur.
In 2015, the Slovenian music group Laibach plowed the field when they became the first foreign group to perform in the otherwise hermetically sealed North Korea. On May 1, 2017, with a concert at the Jeonju Film Festival in South Korea, they will become the first rock band to perform in both Koreas.
From November 13 to 24, 2019, Liffe will turn Ljubljana into the film capital for twelve days for the thirtieth time. It will show more than a hundred films, which will be accompanied by discussions with festival guests and filmmakers, as well as round tables and workshops.
All fans of top audiovisual art are invited to watch the best European masterpieces of this year in Piran between November 27 and 30. The European and Mediterranean Film Festival (FEMF) 2019 will serve up selected names from the world of film, and this year even more so, as it celebrates its 10th anniversary.