21. Cinema Island in the sign of durability and dialogue

The central part of 21. Implementation of the International Film Festival begins in Izola Cinema Island – Isola Cinema. It will be held in several movie theaters and outdoor venues, and the events before and after it is scattered across Slovenia, and it will be the most condensed in Ljubljana. The Izola part will last until 8 June. As a novelty, the organizers have now announced a clear commitment to sustainability.

According to the organizational team of the festival, the decision for sustainability is a response to ubiquitous hyper -production and hyperfestivalization, so they form a sustainable and responsible vision step by step. According to them, this means that Cinema Island « Designed to a man, in a slow rhythm, with an abundance of opportunities for a deeper understanding of the film art and the world in which it is produced, and the space for dialogue between filmmakers and the audience. »

In total, this time they have been included in the program of one hundred ninety -nine films from sixty countries, of which fifty -five are feature films and fourty -eight shorts; Most will be displayed in Izola. The screenings will accompany a diverse event, especially interesting because of festival guests or filmmakers.

Of these was in the program Pro island In Focus Croatian director Igor Bezinovicauthor of the award -winning feature documentary Fium on Morte!. Already in May, he performed a master course at the Ljubljana AGRFT, in which they showed his first short films, and spoke about his view of the creation and the author’s documentary. His film is characterized by tight contact with the surroundings in which it is produced.

Double connection to the capital of culture

21. Cinema Island will open the movie A common language Canadian director Matthew Rankina, in which Canadian and Iranian cultures and cinemas are intertwined. “This is a crazy, beak -like film: partly for the lonely Quebeshi movie gray, partly for surrealist Winnipica filmmaker and partly for Iranian poetic realism in the style of the Kanun Institute of Children’s Media. These three elements mirror and break through the prism of each other, « said the director.

The opening film The common language is the intertwining of Canadian and Iranian culture and cinemas. Photo: Elephant Films

““ “Vermiglio is the province of soul; ‘family lexicon’ that lives in me on the threshold of the unconscious; A statement of love for father, his family and the village in which they lived. A movie that pays tribute to collective memory through a personal story, ”said the final film Vermiglio About love among the inhabitant of the Cell Village in the Italian Alps and newcomers before the end of World War II said the director Maura Delpero. The film received a silver lion at the Venice Festival and represents a new program Cinema Island Istra Istra, It is to bring a movie to places around Istria who have no cinema.

The wider program should be highlighted by a set of twenty short films of young gauze young creators with a common title From zero point. Features, documentary and experimental three to six minutes long films were made during the current war between Israel and Hamas. Even though the situation was unsustainable at the time of occurring, they offer not only insight into the reality there, but also in the unwavering spirit of the population, now completely destroyed by enclaves.

In cooperation with the program Cinema Basaglia The European capital Nova Gorica – Gorica will be another important historical document, the Italian documentary We rinse the fools from 1975 on psychiatric institutions reformer, psychiatrist Franc Basaglii. “It turned out that Basaglia knew how to keep the confusion at the exercises, although not too tight to use the great energy of the revolutionary enthusiasm. After a decade of persistent efforts, the goal was achieved: the hospital was vacated, the network of mental health centers, which also provide care at home, firmly placed. The Italian government has expanded the Trieste experience to the whole country by law: all mental fellows were eliminated. Even the political right, which initially opposed the experience in the beginning, today boasts foreign psychiatrists attending Trieste to study successful experiment, « he said in Annexes Jernej Perk told the Trieste psychiatrist Paul Fondawho experienced the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric hospitals firsthand. Cinema Island He is involved with another program Go! 2025retrospective Oriente East.

Part of the retrospective that is in collaboration with Liffom and Cinema islands Prepared by the Slovenian Cinematheque and will be aired in the fall, is the film of American director and screenwriter Kelly Reichardt Night paths.

At the press conference before the start of the festival, she is the main selector of the program Varja Močnik In addition to the introductory film and the short gauze, mentioned Listen to voices about the tragic consequences of colonial power in French Guyana and a film Pooa, cheese About investigating the abduction of boys in the restless border area between Nepal and India.

Video on the beach, for which they are this year according to the selector Teja Miholič He will receive a record number of applications, will produce films of both established and unknown authors. Particular attention will be paid to study films, but there will be many from domestic production, as well as from Croatia and Austria.