Dragomir Zupanc was still a student when he formed a strong bond with Slovenian cinema. “My first cinematheque was in Belgrade, on Kosovska Street. The second and fateful one was in Ljubljana, on Miklošičeva Street.” Later, as an established film critic based in Belgrade, he worked with Ekran Magazine, gradually specialising in Slovenian topics. His first trip to a festival in Portorož was in 1976. Since 2008, he has been a regular at the Slovenian national film festival as a reporter or filmmaker. Since 2014, he has organised the Days of Slovenian Cinema at the Yugoslav Cinematheque. We talk to Dragomir Zupanc, the 2023 Friend of Slovenian Cinema, and his guests after the screening of his short TV films Spyglass and The Ugly Ones.