The 23rd Festival of Slovenian Film closed last night with the awards ceremony to celebrate the highest creative achievements in Slovenian cinema. Directed by Matej Filipčič and hosted by Jure Longyka, the event took place in the Grand Hall of the Hotel Union

The first hours of the final festival day are intended for the youngest audience. A rainy Sunday morning is perfect for a family trip to cinema to see Children’s Animations. Bring your young ones! At 3:30 pm, the programme continues with a

“In fact, it was most interesting to realize that this walk of his embodies the very essence of freedom and protest. They can take everything away from us except breathing and walking. He told me that he had not set

We are really pleased to see such a great number of viewers accessing FSF’s Panorama Programme and Industry Events, all of which are entirely free to watch and follow from our online platform. As many as 400 viewing codes for

“I wanted to understand why people forget so easily and how our memory can be selective so that we can forget something that hurts. Could it be that in the end, we are just all the things we don't forget?” said

“All we can do is curb the anger and hatred around us,” says one of the convicts and main characters in the documentary Exemplary Behaviour, a Slovenian minority co-production by Audrius Mickevičius which uses a very personal account to see into minds of

Cinema is a hobby of mine where I feel most useful and which brings me the greatest joy said Ivan Bolle, an undiscovered pioneer of Slovenian cinema, in his letters to Marjan Foerster. Foerster replies: “All artistic collaborators of the Triglav film

“What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.” The quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel serves as the epigraph to Antigone

The festival catalogue and schedule in PDF format can already be accessed through our website. The catalogue will be available in hard copy at the festival’s Info Point as of the opening day.

At the press conference before kick-off, the context of this year’s edition of the festival and its new features in terms of both programme and organisation were presented by the Director of the Slovenian Film Centre, Nataša Bučar, the Director

Each autumn, the Festival of Slovenian Film showcases the latest Slovenian productions of various categories and genres. Although this year’s output is visibly a result of the production hiatus, particularly in terms of feature-length fiction films, the line-up nevertheless provides

At this year's edition of FSF, the films in the Official Competition will be judged by a jury consisting of directors Katja Colja and Siniša Gačić, film critic Matic Majcen, film theorist and lecturer Polona Petek, and actor Maja Sever. To learn more about the members of the

The Festival of Slovenian Film traditionally presents the Metod Badjura Award for lifetime achievement in cinema. The panel of judges consisting of Karpo Godina, Dušan Moravec, Aleš Pavlin, Olga Toni and Varja Močnik, decided to give the 2020 Badjura Award

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, this year’s edition of the festival will be delivered in a hybrid form. The films in the Official Competition selection will be screened in the Komuna Cinema, Ljubljana, while the Panorama Programme will be

Accreditation for the upcoming edition of the Festival of Slovenian Film is now open. Press and industry delegates are welcome to apply for accreditation by 1 October 2020 via our online forms. After this, applications will only be accepted from

Festival dates: 06–11 October 2020 Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic was declared in early March, it has become increasingly clear that it will be a while before festivals can be organised again in the way they have always been. As film