Porto (PT) – Focus Slovenia at Beast Film Festival
Opening of the Festival with three Slovenian shorts, Granny's Sexual Life by Urška Djukić & Émilie Pigeard, Steakhouse by Špela Čadež and Sisters by Kukla. Special attention to veteran director Karpo Godina with 8 of his shorts from the 60s and 70s. In the Focus films from Station DIVA and Film Schools from Ljubljana and Nova Gorica. Director Boris Petković presented his documentary film LGBT_SLO_1984 (2022).
Leipzig (DE) – Slovenia in Focus, Dok Leipzig
In collaboration with SKICA Berlin (the Slovenian Cultural Centre in Berlin) the festival presented 3 documentary programmes from the period 1991-2023.
The directors in Focus: Maja Weiss with Boy, Bloodbrother of Death (1992) and Boy, Bloodbrother of Death 2 (2012), Zemira Alajbegović & Neven Korda with Slices of Time (2001), Urška Djukić & Émilie Pigeard with Granny's Sexual Life, Matjaž Ivanišin with Karpotrotter (2013) and Playing Men (2017).
Maja Weiss and Matjaž Ivanišin introduced the films and had Q&A with the public.
Kino Arsenal Berlin (DE) - Not a retrospective
The opening film was the digitally restored Valley of Peace (1956) by France Štiglic, followed by Spare Parts by Damjan Kozole, Berlnale Competition entry in 2003, The Tree (2014) by Sonja Prosenc, Riders (2022) by Dominik Mencej, Orchestra (2021) by Matevž Luzar, The Miner (2017) by Hanna Slak, Consequences (2017) by Darko Štante and with the German premiere of Role Model (2023) by Nejc Gazvoda.
The event has been attended by directors Damjan Kozole, Sonja Prosenc, Dominik Mencej and Nejc Gazvoda. In collaboration with SKICA Berlin.