Films and sections

Harvest

The Harvest section is a traditional festival competition section, in which  movies from around the world apply for main public award. The awarded movie gets buying-off and distribution around Slovenia.

• Sonny (d. Larisa Sadilova, Russia 2009)
• Call Shop (d. Mohammed Soudani, Algeria, Switzerland 2010)
• The Anchorage (d. C.W. Winter, Anders Edström, Sweden, USA 2009)
• The Land Inhabited (d. Anna Sanmartí, Spain 2009)

Good neighbours 

• The Flood (d. Goran Devic, Croatia 2010)
• To Win (d. Marco Bellocchio, Italy, France 2009)
• Totò (d. Peter Schreiner, Austria 2009)

Open Island

In this eclectic festival section of Open Island different views, recognizable poetics and esthetics and different creative methods meet. Each in their own way, these movies are telling their stories. Be it through precise presentation of main protagonists, through examining and showing the situations of modern societies - all the way from Kasmir, through Etiopia to genuine Indian community of northern-Mexican mountains, or yet another who are reliving their memories.

• Between two worlds (d. Vimukthi Jayasundara, Sri Lanka 2009)
• Cameroon Love Letter (for Solo Piano) (d. Khavn, Philippines, Cameroon 2010)
• Contact High (d. Michael Glawogger, Austria 2009)
• Sewer (d. Sherad Anthony Sanchez, Philippines 2008)
• Independence (d. Philippines, France, Germany, Netherlands 2008)
• Mongsil (d. Lee Ji-sang, South Korea 2009)
• Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on Alberta Tar Sands (d. Peter Mettler, Canada 2009)
• Refrains Happen Like Revolutions in a Song (d. John Torres, Philippines 2009)
• Scheherazade, Tell me a Story  (d. Yousry Nasrallah, Egypt 2009)

Masters

• Moloch Tropical (d. Raoul Peck,  Haiti, France 2009)
• Tell me who you are (d. Souleymane Cissé,  Mali, France 2009)
• When we are all asleep (d. Bahrām Bayzāi Iran 2009) 

Silvan's Bay 

Silvan’s Cine School was not a school, but a space. A space for experiencing and discussing film. Film and life. (Dedicated to Silvan Furlan.)

But the name was stronger: nomen est omen, people said and stayed outside “school” “doors”. Thus, a decision was reached to bring down the imagined door and “open” the space into Silvan’s Bay.   

Silvan’s Bay is a meeting, a space open in all directions and to all people where one can experience and discuss not only film, but poetry in all forms. Poetry (that is, all true art) and life. It is dedicated to Silvan Furlan, now more than ever, because it is (however incredible it may sound) the only public remembrance of Silvan.  

Programme
Lesson 5: Distances (Vlado Škafar)

• Open Book: literature in the streets and on the screens 
• Distances: a concert by Nina Romić
• Do You Still Remember Love?: Joni, unveiling of a painting 

Silvan’s Cinemateque (Koen van Daele)

• Sodankylä Forever (d. Peter von Bagh, Finland 2010)
• Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno (d. Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea, France 2009)

Island Animateque 

In respect for our youngest movie fans, in Island Animateque the animated film will be shown, in collaboration with the International animation film festival Animateque.

• Animations programme: Secret of Kells

Video on the beach

This year’s selection is based on an extensive documentary programme, with most of the entries coming from Slovenia. The focus lies on the exploration of contemporary social phenomena, mostly in connection with marginalised social groups and minorities and their exclusion from public discourse. Discrimination, integration, immigrants, assimilation, multiculturalism, and homosexuality feature among the burning issues serving as the backdrop for questioning Slovene “openness” and cosmopolitanism.

Island in Kinodvor

Kinodvor offers Izola Cinema in Ljubljana for everybody that cannot come to Izola and for those who want to see certain films, but will have missed them during the festival. Between 8 and 14 September, the city cinema will present some of the highlights of the festival. Authors will join us in Kinodvor as well.   

• Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on Alberta Tar Sands (d. Peter Mettler, Canada 2009)
• The Flood (d. Goran Devic, Croatia 2010)
• Tell me who you are (d. Souleymane Cissé,  Mali, France 2009)
• To Win (d. Marco Bellocchio, Italy, France 2009)
• Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno (d. Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea, France 2009)
• Sodankylä Forever (d. Peter von Bagh, Finland 2010)
• The Anchorage (d. C.W. Winter, Anders Edström, Sweden, USA 2009)
• Mongsil (d. Lee Ji-sang, South Korea 2009)
• the winning film of Kino Otok - Isola Cinema film