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.
- The prince of Broadway (r. Sean Baker, USA 2008)
- Parque via (r. Enrique Rivero, Mexico 2008)
- La Rabia (r. Albertina Carri, Argentina 2008)
- Daytime drinking (r. Noh Young-Seok, South Korea 2008)
- Acne (r. Federico Veiroj, Uruguay, Argentine, Mexico, Spain, USA 2008)
Friends
The Programme section Friends enables to the friends of Cinema Island (meaning: faithful foreign collaborators) to bring their friends and films which they always wanted to take to Isola - with no limitations. In this respect, the British film critic Neil Young, our partner in "cooperative" and director of the Innsbruck film festival Helmut Groschup and Germany-based critic of the Film Commitment magazine Olaf Möller, bring us the works of young and perspective authors with fresh views, coming from different parts of the world.
- Three (r. Goran Dević, Croatia 2008)
- Aguas Verdes (Mariano de Rosa, Argentina 2009)
- New Kaisertal City (r. Melanie Hollaus, Austria 2008)
- Happy country (r. Goran Dević, Croatia 2008)
- Isa Hesse Rabinovitch (r. Anka Schmid, Switzerland 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.- 35 shots of rhum (r. Claire Denis, France 2008)
- Cochochi (r. Israel Cardenas, Laura Amelia Guzman, Mexico, England, Canada 2007)
- Gasoline(r. Julio Hernandez Cordon, Guatemala, USA, Spain 2008)
- Hafez(r. Abolfazl Jalili, Iran 2007)
- Mid-August lunch (r. Gianni di Gregorio, Italy 2008)
- Tahaan, a boy with a grenade (r. Santosh Sivan, India 2008)
- Teza (r. Haile Gerima, Ethiopia 2008)
Silvan cinema school
Silvan cinema school is not a school, it is a space. A space for experiencing and narrating movies. Movies and life. It is dedicated to Silvan Furlan, the godfather of the festival and founder of the Slovenia Cinemateque. This years programme, titled Something has ended, under the guidance of director and writer Vlado Škafar, gives respect to the great Slovenian cineasts Matjaž Klopčič and Franci Slak, and retrospectively rememberes forgotten Slovenian film author, Drago Parovel.
You will make some writings, pictures, music, movies, memories and compliments. All having in common silence with no words, silence of drawings, silence of music notes and moving pictures, not conceptual silence, but that dense or rear natural silence in which you can hear something had cracked.
- The time of crisis (r. Franci Slak, Slovenia 1981)
- On the run (r. Matjaž Klopčič, Slovenia 1967 )
- Drago Parovel - Retrospective that doesn't exist (r. Drago Parovel, Slovenia 1976)
Doc focus
A special programme section Docu-focus concentrates on documentary approach and offers a set of documentaries questioning current social topics.
- At my doorstep (r. Nishtha Jain, India 2009)
- The old thieves - the legend of Artegio (r. Everaldo Gonzales, Mexico 2008)
- Access road (r. Natalie Mansoux, Portugal 2008)
- Crazy Life (r. Christian Poveda, Španija/Mehika/Francija 2008)
- He Fengming: A Chinese Memoir (r. Wang Bing, Kitajska/China 2008)
Island Animateque
In respect for our youngest movie fans, in Island Animateque the animations from children's programme Red Elephant will ne shown, in collaboration with the International animation film festival Animateque.
- Animations programme: Red Elephant
