EVENTS 2022
LJUBLJANA
Critique Workshop: Newsreels from Nika Autor and Prime Time in the Camps from Chris Marker
The participants will reflect upon what they will have seen. We will discuss the specifics of the documentary film, touching the issue of migration, as well as different approaches to the matter. The discussions will be mentored and supervised by the film critic Petra Meterc, who will also be assisting the participants in editing shorts texts. The workshops will offer a space of relection to those who might wish to immerse themselves in the films through writing. The resulting writings will be the end product of the workshosps, subsequently published on the festival web page.
This year’s workshops will focus on Nika Autor’s Newsreels and Chris Marker’s Prime time in the camps. We will look into the history of newsreels and discuss the position of Nika Autor’s films, addressing the issue of migration on the Balkan route. We will compare her approaches to those of Prime time, filmed in Slovenia in the 1990s. Chris Marker filmed a video workshop in the former army barracy at Roška in Ljubljana, featuring refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina who wished to show their own experience on the run. The films will induce us to reflect upon the diversty of presentations on the screen as well as in the media, leading us to discuss the political aspect of the film images.
The workshop will take place in the afternoons, during the festival, June 20th – 24th
There is no participation fee; please send your applications to filmskedelavnice.FMF@gmail.com by June 15th.
Q & A with Alice Pataxó, an activist for the rights of indigenous communities in Brazil.
Saturday, June 4th at 18.00 in Slovenian Cinematheque after the screening of the film The Territory.
Q & A will be moderated by Maja Prijatelj Videmšek.
In collaboration with Focus, Association for Sustainable Development. The event is part of the project Our Food. Our Future and is organised with the financial support of the European Union and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its contents are the sole responsibility of the organizers of the event and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.
Festival announcement and discussion with the director of the film The Wire Tiha K. Gudac, the representative of UNHCR Regional Office for Central Europe Romana Zidar and the representative of the festival Marina Uzelac.
Wednesday, June 15th at 17.00 in AGRFT Hall (Aškerčeva 5) after the screening of the film The Wire.
The discussion will be moderated by Petra Meterc.
The event is part of the Kinofilm cycle organized by AGRFT. Mandatory registration by 13 June, by 12.00 at kino@agrft.uni-lj.si.
In collaboration with AGRFT and UNHCR Regional Office for Central Europe.
Q & A with Cristian Natoli, director of the film The Jungle.
Monday, June 20th at 18.30 in Kinodvor after the screening of the film The Jungle.
Q & A will be moderated by Petra Meterc.
Q & A with the cofounder of Rojava Film Commune Diyar Hesso.
Tuesday, June 21st at 17.00 in Slovenian Cinematheque after the screening of the films Hêza (Strenght) and Blackberry Season.
Q & A will be moderated by Petra Meterc, live via Zoom.
Q & A with one of the directors of the film Jakob Krese and producer Annika Mayer.
Tuesday, June 21st at 21.00 in SlovenianCinematheque after the screening of the film What remains on the way.
Q & A will be moderated by Petra Meterc.
Q & A with Nika Autor, the author of Newsreel 4517 – Across the Water into Freedom, Newsreel 2021 – Here I Have Picture, Newsreel 670 – Red Forests.
Wednesday, June 22nd at 17.00 in AGRFT Hall (Aškerčeva 5) after the screening of the Newsreels.
Q & A will be moderated by Andrej Šprah.
The event is part of the Kinofilm cycle organized by AGRFT. Mandatory registration by 20 June, by 12.00 at kino@agrft.uni-lj.si.
In collaboration with AGRFT.
Disscusion about reception of refugees in 90s and today.
Wednesday, June 22nd at 19.15 in Slovenian Cinematheque after the screening of the film Prime Time in the Camps.
The discussion will be moderated by Romana Zidar, the representative of UNHCR Regional Office for Central Europe.
The event is part of the program It Happened Very Close to Us, which takes place on the 30th anniversary of the arrival of refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Slovenia and is prepared together with partners by Zavod Divja misel / Vodnikova domačija Šiška.
In collaboration with Slovenian Cinematheque and UNHCR Regional Office for Central Europe.
Q & A with the director of the film (In)visible Anže Grčar and director of photography Andraž Žigart.
Thursday, June 23rd at 17.00 in Pritličje after the screening of the films Stones in the way and (In)visible.
Q & A will be moderated by Marina Uzelac.
Q & A with the director of the film Ole Jacobs and Arne Büttner.
Thursday, June 23rd at 18.30 in Slovenian Cinematheque after the screening of the Nasim.
Q & A will be moderated by Petra Meterc.
Q & A with the protagonist of the film Robert Soko, who will afterwards rock us to the rhythms of the film.
Thursday, June 23rd at 21.30 in Kinodvor (Kinodvorišče, open-air cinema) after the screening of the film Here we move here we groove.
Q & A will be moderated by Petra Meterc.
In collaboration with the Festival Druga godba and Kinodvor.
The refugee experience through VR glasses
In Clouds over Sidra, an 8-minute short documentary, you will have the opportunity to see the world through the eyes of 12-year-old Sidra, who lives in the largest refugee camp, Zaʼatari, in northern Jordan, along with around 80,000 refugees from Syria.
The Displaced will take you briefly through the lives of 11-year-old Oleg from Ukraine, 12-year-old Hana from Syria and 9-year-old Chuol from South Sudan. These children have been displaced from war-ravaged places and have experienced the trauma of having to save their own lives or the loss of loved ones. These are just three children’s fates among the fates of 30 million others, according to a UN report earlier this year.
ČRNOMELJ
Discusssion with the director of the film Tiha K. Gudac and Franci Zlatar, executive director of Slovene Philanthropy.
Thursday, June 16th at 18.00 in Cinema Črnomelj after the screening of the film The Wire.
MARIBOR
Q & A with the director of the film Tempest Anton Martin Emeršič and protagonist of the film Ahmed Maamo.
Tuesday, June 21st at 20.00 in GT22 after the screening of the films Free Town, Hydrangeas in winter and Tempest.
Q & A will be moderated by Tjaša Arko.