On Friday, 28 August, a special selection of home movies from the Slovenian Cinematheque’s collection will be presented as part of the Kino Katarina programme in Pula. Through footage of summer holidays on the Adriatic coast in the 1970s and 1980s, the films offer glimpses of everyday life in socialist Yugoslavia. The programme presents a … Continued
Xenophobia, fascism, and anti-immigrant rhetoric are surging once more. The amplification of a ‘them versus us’ binary serves as a weapon of the political elite, stoking division, while each election cycle resurrects the same exhausted refrains, increasingly dangerous, increasingly disruptive. Yet beyond the political spectacle lie real people: people with a desire for freedom, dreams … Continued
In response to this year’s festival theme, Lessons of Darkness, we contemplate the ways of watching and responding to images of disaster. Because of our constant exposure to violence, destruction, and suffering, there exists a risk that such devastating images will become ingrained in our daily lives and leave us indifferent. The selected archival films … Continued
Lessons of Darkness, Werner Herzog’s scorched elegy for a burning world, becomes a mirror held up to the present. Filmed above the oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait, Herzog’s apocalyptic vision feels less like history than prophecy: a landscape of extraction, ruin, and eerie, almost inhuman beauty that rhymes too easily with today’s geopolitical fires. … Continued
All of Gala Hernández López’s films in this year’s Instant Cult programme feature some form of dreams. In The Mechanics of Fluids, the voice-over describes dreams of a rapid rise of the sea levels around a small island, preventing the protagonist from reaching the safety boat. The film for here am i sitting in a … Continued
When considering the key aspects of this year’s international competition programme and its evolution, geography is a natural starting point. The FeKK BAL programme, which superseded FeKK YU in 2021, has evolved into FeKK International but remaines true to its roots with Moldova and Cyprus joining the company of the Balkan Peninsula countries. This move … Continued
Just like last year, the FeKK SLO programme features many films created by Slovenian students attending international film academies such as the London Film School, the National Film School in Dublin, the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, and the FAMU in Prague. However, this year’s programme is also well-represented by students from Slovenian academies … Continued
In July and August, we will be clearing the cobwebs from the ceiling of the Silvan Furlan Hall and giving the projection booth a thorough clean. After a successful first half of another long cinematheque season, it is time for our traditional move to venues beneath the stars. If you have never visited the Museum … Continued
The Autumn Film School, an international symposium on film criticism and theory, will this year take place under the title Against Oblivion: Queer Film and Memory. The focus is on marginalized LGBTQ+ cultures and images that have, over time, been pushed out of official histories and collective memory—or erased altogether. In doing so, the Autumn … Continued
All screenings and events at Cinematheque’s Open Air Cinema, which are held from 7 to 23 August on the Metelkova Museum platform (Metelkova 2a), are free of charge and you can check the programme to see which films are screened in English or with English subtitles (all the films are screened in the original language). In case of rain, the screening will … Continued