40th LGBT Film Festival awards
At the opening ceremony of the festival, on Monday at Kinudvor, the Pink Dragon Award for the best Slovenian short film was already presented: it was awarded to Petra Hrovatin for her film Inbetween, a personal narrative about the beginnings of the awareness of a non-binary sexual identity. On Sunday, two more Pink Dragons were awarded at the Slovenian Cinematheque. The international jury, compose...
Warm Film: a conversation with Nebojša Jovanović
Lesvia: a discussion with the director Dzeli Hadzidimitriu
Avant-drag – Radical Performers re-imagine Athens: a conversation with guest Aurora Paola Morada
Take part in the Film Challenge and go to Berlinale 2025!
A night with LGBT Film Festival
We start at 7pm with extraordinary documentary Esther Newton Made Me Gay. We'll continue with another documentary, Queer Japan, a kaleidoscope of the Japanese LGBTIQ+ scene, and finish late into the night with a queer classic, Shortbus.____________Esther Newton Made Me Gay USA, 2022, 90’, slo. sub. Directed and written by: Jean CarlomustoCast: Esther Newton, Holly Hughes, Amber Holibaugh, Shak...
The 39th LGBT Film Festival Awards are officially here!
The 39th LGBT Film Festival closed tonight at the Slovenian Cinematheque, where the audience had the opportunity to see 24 feature films, 19 documentaries and 19 short films. The opening screening awarded the prize for the best Slovenian short film to A Worldly Woman of Indomitable Spirit by artist Huiqin Wang and visual artist and animator Andrej Kamnik. At the end of the festival, the Pink Drag...
The Pink Dragon for Best Slovenian Short Film
The Best Slovenian Short Film Award at the 39th LGBT Film Festival will go to the animated film A Worldly Woman of Indomitable Spirit! Congratulations to Huiqiun Wang & Andrej Kamnik and the whole team involved in the making of the film.
Short films also available online!
During the festival week, you can watch a selection of LGBT+ short films online: Code Switch, Micha Lyric Borneo, USA, 2022, 5’, eng. sub. Codeswitch follows a Black trans person as they navigate the barbershop, illuminating the complexity and dynamism of gender expression. Os Animais Mais Fofos e Engraçados do Mundo (The Cutest and Funniest Animals in the World), Renato Sircilli, Brazil, 20...
International Jury
Dave Kim is a film producer and distributor specializing in LGBTQ+ in South Korea. Based in Seoul, he has produced many films: The New Employee (2023), Made on the Rooftop (2021), Two Weddings & One Funeral (2012), etc., and distributed Stranger by the Lake (2013), Freeheld (2015) and 120 Beats Per Minute(2018), among others. He has also been the head programmer at the Seoul International PRID...
LGBT+ Film Festival: 39. edition
Closing of the 38th LGBT Film Festival
OFF programme: Holding the Man - presentation of the Slovenian translation of the book
Kamnik_ - discussion with the creators of the short film
Moist gravel - a conversation with actress Bebe Sesitashvili
Maybe Someday - a conversation with director Michelle Ehlen via Zoom
Young and Afraid - a conversation with director Sverre Kvamme
My Tender Matador - presentation of the Slovenian translation of the novel
Bent - presentation of the translation of Heinz Heger's testimony and discussion with historian Marco Reglia
OFF programme: NARCISSISM - The Auto-Erotic Images - conversation with Toni Karat and Del LaGrace Volcano
OPENING OF THE 38TH LGBT FILM FESTIVAL
Winners of Pink Dragon Awards
AWARDS OF THE 38TH LGBT FILM FESTIVAL The 38th LGBT Film Festival closed tonight at the Slovenian Cinematheque, where the audience had the opportunity to see 25 feature films, 27 documentaries and 27 short films. The opening screening awarded the prize for the best Slovenian short film, and the closing screening was followed by the awarding of the Pink Dragon award, as voted by the audience and t...
Join us for a short documentary film workshop!
Make a film! You are invited to a short documentary film workshop. The workshop will take place from mid-September to the end of November as part of the 38th LGBT Film Festival. The aim of the workshop is to shoot and edit 2 short documentaries of about 10 minutes. Successfully completed films will be included in the programme of this year's festival, which will take place between 10 and 18 Decem...
Workshop: "How personal are you willing to be in the storytelling"
Workshop: "How personal are you willing to be in the storytelling?" One of the best ways to be original is to tell personal stories derived from your own experience. It gives us an opportunity to learn from another person's experience and it can shape, strengthen or challenge our opinions and values. When a story catches our attention and engages us, we are more likely to absorb the message and...
Eastern Perspectives
Two Pink Dragons Awarded
The 37th LGBT Film Festival closed tonight at the Slovenian Cinematheque, where the audience had the opportunity to see 16 feature films, 26 documentaries and 26 short films. The Pink Dragon Awards were presented at the end of the event, as voted by the public and the jury. The international jury was composed of Andrea Coloma, director of Mix Copenhagen, one of the oldest LGBT film festivals; Jad ...
Film Workshop with Nicole Costa
The opening of the 37th LGBT Film Festival
Tickets
Tickets can be purchased at the box offices of Cankarjev dom, Kinodvor and Slovenian Cinematheque. In addition, it is also possible to purchase tickets online: CD: https://vstopnice.cd-cc.si/si/ celotna-ponudba.html Kinodvor: https://kinodvor.kupikarto.si/ Slovenian Cinematheque: https://www.mojekarte.si/si/ ponudnik/105/slovenska- kinoteka.html * if the screening is already sold out online, it...
A Manual for Breaking Up
Show Me Your Hand & C'mon
Happy Birthday Tara
Love Me Tender
Eden
With Four You Can Play Bridge
Libertà
Film workshop with director Jan Soldat
The 37th LGBT Film Festival invites you to a film workshop on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 December at Tiffany - Metelkova mesto, 11.00-16.00. The workshop will be led by German filmmaker Jan Soldat, this year's guest of the festival. His short films focus on liminal sexual practices, from fetishism, SM, role-playing, elderly sexuality, to gender re-enactment. But far from making his films for shock ...
Film workshop with director Nicole Costa
The 37th LGBT Film Festival invites you to a film workshop on Sunday, 12 December at the Slovenian Cinematheque in Ljubljana, (11.00-14.00). The workshop will be led by Nicole Costa, a Chilean actress, film director and producer from New York. Nicole Costa is this year's main guest of the festival, having directed the festival's opening film The Journey of Monalisa, her first feature film. In 2010...
Talk with directors
THE WINNER OF THE FESTIVAL AUDIENCE AWARD
The Festival of LGBT Film has concluded its 36th edition! Even though it was a though year for us all, our awsome audience came flocking in great numbers, making this year's festival one of the most sucessful in recent years. Thank you all! Without further ado: The audience has spoken and voted for the best film of the festival. This year's winner is: Welcome to Chechnya, USA, 2020, 107’Writer...
Talk with film directors
Zoom talk with film directors! Get ready and prepare your questions. When: Sunday, 20 December 2020 Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84691299166?pwd=K3M4Slhpb2JPQy9Wc1NMZ0tkbDZZdz09 We will be talking with: Laura Cazador, co-director of Defiant Souls Bruce LaBruce, director of Saint-Narcisse Ferran Navarro-Beltrán, director of The Silent Generation Daniel Manns, director of Between Summer a...
Ask Any Buddy
Condom On
Madrid-Stockholm
Cohabitation
Parie Daryae (Mermaid)
Polter
Suckmeoff, Princess!
Love is Love
Traverser la nuit (Now, Daphne)
Fanaty
Don’t Be a DICK!
Volta Seca
Ayaneh
Ang Susunod na Palabas
Hands and Wings, Južna Koreja, 2019, čb, 15’, ap
Subjekträume, Nemčija, 2020, 28’, ap
Moški mora biti močan (Un uomo deve essere forte/A Man Must be Strong)
Féeroce (Fairyocious), Francija, 2019, 13’, ap
Beer! Beer!
FAQ on connecting to Cinesquare
1. Clear your Web Browser's cache. This is not a question, but the answer to most of the problems you may encounter. Especially if you registered or accessed any pages on Cinesquare before the official start of the festival. This is the first action to take, if you encounter any problem. Instructions for Firefox: in English Insructions for Chrome: in English 2. How can I register on the festival p...
Free access to film Alive!
Free access to Alive! movie until Saturday! Synopsis: Five men meet for their first parachuting experience. As they discover the initial in-structions and safety rules their lives will soon depend on, they share another expe-rience, being HIV-positive and undergoing triple-therapy treatment. Full of intense and breathtaking moments, the film also gives them a chance to express profound feel...
This year we are (also) going online!
Dear guests, It has been a crazy and though year for us all. But no worries, the LGBT Film Festival has got you covered! If the epidemic settles down, the cinemas open and we can assure a safe enviroment for us all, we will proceed with film screenings in Ljubljana, Maribor, Ptuj, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenska Bistrica, Idrija and Koper. During the festival week, most of the films will also be made ...
The Two of Us director, Filippo Meneghetti
More on the film at: https://variety.com/2019/film/reviews/two-of-us-review-deux-1203327318/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/two-of-us-tiff-2019-1238870 https://www.bande-a-part.fr/cinema/critique/magazine-de-cinema-deux-filippo-meneghetti-critique/ https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2020/02/12/dans-son-premier-film-deux-filippo-meneghetti-met-en-scene-un-duo-d-amoureuses-contrarie_60...
“When I grow up, I'll be a girl”
More on the film at: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/little-girl-petite-fille-review-1280615 https://filmisafineaffair.com/index.php/reviews/little-girl-petite-fille-by-sebastien-lifshitz https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/23/little-girl-review-gender-documentary-france https://lwlies.com/reviews/little-girl/
Welcome to Chechnya
Peder, faggot, puff, fruit, … - Moffie
Co-director of Defiant Souls, Laura Cazador
More on the film at: https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/384575/ https://remezcla.com/features/film/review-insumisas-fernando-perez-laura-cazador/ http://reversofilms.es/insumisas/ http://misiones.minrex.gob.cu/es/articulo/se-estrena-en-madrid-filme-cubano-insumisas-de-los-directores-fernando-perez-y-laura
Between Summer and Fall director, Daniel Manns
