Undoubtedly one of the most distinctive and original directors in Slovenian cinema, Jan Cvitković, is an old friend of SIFF. Among the many international festival awards that his films Bread and Milk and Gravehopping gatnered, is No Man’s Land in the Balkan competition at the SIFF. This year Jan Cvitković comes to the festival as a mem¬ber of the International Jury as well as with his new movie Archeo. Archeo (produced by Jozko Rutar, who also arrives for the 16th edition o...

Following the latest Retrospective of Slovenian Film in March in Belgrade, Serbia, ever since the 70s, films coming from Slovenia were representatives of the Yugoslav black wave film or one way or another, film avant-garde. Slovenian cinematography was and still is today somehow, closely related to a Serbian cinematography, but without burden of present Serbian film-a post civil themes. Slovenian film today may be overburden with social questions of a coming liberal capitalism be...

Attention all filmmakers and wine worshippers! Submissions for the Little Workshop of Horrors are now open to all kinds of film crews that wish to shoot their film during this year's Grossmann festival, taking place from 26th to the 31st of July in Ljutomer, Slovenia. As usual, it has to be done in two days and one night! All of you who are daring, resourceful and playful enough can apply right here, where you can also find all further details and information. Submission deadline is the 5th of J...

Attention all lovers of wild and cult cinema, divine wine and bloody beautiful music! The 6th Grossmann Film and Wine festival is approaching, so make time for vacation, sharpen your film tastes, and prepare your dancing shoes, zombie masks and taste buds! Slovenia’s biggest film-wine event will strike like thunder from a stormy sky on the last week of July, precisely from 26th to 31st of July, of course in the town of Ljutomer, the birthplace of Slovenian cinema. Once again you will be subj...

20 years of Ljubljana Film Festival-LIFFE http://en.liffe.si/another film festival of the world starts tonight, 11th of November 2009. The Ljubljana International Film Festival presents Slovenian particular audiences of about 50,000 the standouts of Slovenian cinema, for two weeks. The Festival presents the best in international cinema and is your chance to catch films that may have been unnoticed and evaluate those who has already been written by the critics. The twentieth anniversary also symb...