The 18th Kino Otok International Film Festival returns to Izola and elsewhere, from 1 to 5 June 2022
STA, 31 May 2022 – The coastal town of Izola is ready for the 18th rerun of the Isola Cinema International Film Festival, which will take place from 1 to 5 June. Fans of art film are looking forward to 41 carefully selected feature films and 71 short films, most of which will be screened at three open and two indoor venues in Izola.
Planned screenings and events are also planned in Ljubljana, Cerknica, Idrija, Sežana and Tolmin, and some even before the official start of the festival. Festival director Tanja Hladnik told reporters that the scope of the program is again comparable to pre-pandemic years.
According to the selector Varja Močnik, the selected films show how much intimate life is intertwined with political events, with the latter pushing some people to the margins of society.
The official opening film of the festival is Disappearing / Verschwinden / The Disappearance of Andrina Mračnikar, an Austrian filmmaker with Slovene roots, who discussed the state of the Slovene language in the Austrian bilingual province of Carinthia. The film received an audience award at the Diagonale festival in Graz.
Major outdoor films include Alex Camilleri’s Luzzo, which shows the impact of EU regulations on traditional fishing in Malta, Sonja Tarokoć’s The Staffroom in Croatia, which explored the dynamics of the education system, and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Love Encounters.
Pasolini’s classic will not be the only trip along the memorial path in Izola, as the festival will also join a retrospective organized by the Ljubljana Cinematheque, dedicated to Hungarian director Marta Meszaros.
The festival, which will also host many film guests, will present a selection of short films by ascending independent filmmakers in the relaxed atmosphere of the Video on the Beach section, a program of films and activities for children, young people and families. , and a program for film professionals.
In addition, this year Kino Isola committed itself to implementing measures to prevent and reduce the amount of waste generated and thus became the first film event in Slovenia to receive the title Zero Waste event awarded by the association Ecologists without Borders.
Explore the schedule in English herethe festival, however, gathered some trailers on YouTube