Through the year - OTOK https://www.isolacinema.org Institute for Cultural and Social Development Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:24:17 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.isolacinema.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/cropped-KO_-Filsko-rajanje-19-logotipi-OTOK-32x32.jpg Through the year - OTOK https://www.isolacinema.org 32 32 On the Island: Kino Otok’s Summer Travels Through Music and Selfies https://www.isolacinema.org/en/on-the-island-kino-otoks-summer-travels-through-music-and-selfies/ Fri, 12 Jul 2019 09:20:35 +0000 http://www.isolacinema.org/?p=23921 Two films that left a powerful impact on this year’s audience of the international film festival Kino Otok – Isola Cinema are continuing their journey between Slovenia and Italy. Between 12 and 21 July we visit the unique festival Stazione di Topolo in Italian Veneto...

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]]> Two films that left a powerful impact on this year’s audience of the international film festival Kino Otok – Isola Cinema are continuing their journey between Slovenia and Italy. Between 12 and 21 July we visit the unique festival Stazione di Topolo in Italian Veneto region with the films Remains – Confessions to the Ghosts and Selfie, and on the 30 July the Selfie will be screened at the Open-Air Cinema Silvan Furlan in Nova Gorica.

The small village Topolo bordering on Italy and Slovenia has been hosting an exciting festival for over two decades, a festival that intertwines the visual, textual and sound art. This year’s 26th edition is taking place between 12 and 21 July and as it is tradition, screens a selection from this year’s 15th edition of Kino Otok – Isola Cinema. On Wednesday, 17th July, Selfie by the Italian director Agostino Ferrente (France/Italy, 2019) wil be screened. The film received the world premiere at the Berlin film festival. The director gave two sixteen year olds from an infamous neighbourhood ruled by the mafia Camorra, a mobile phone for filming, creating a shockingly truthful look into their everyday life and their friendship. Between Wednesday, 17 July and Sunday, 21 July, a musical and visual experience will be happening. Remains – Confessions to the Ghosts (Slovenia, 2018) is a film composed of the dark balladic rock of Niko Novak and unused footage from the film Mama by the director Vlado Škafar that Niko Novak and Matevž Jerman edited into untouchable, highly amorphous feelings between sight and sound, landscape and distances.

You can see the entire programme of Stazione di Topolo here. Free entry.

On Tuesday, 30 July, we will stop by with the film Selfie under the stars of Open-Air Cinema Silvan Furlan in Nova Gorica that offers socializing alongside film projections at the city square. Free entry.

See you on the Island!

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]]> An Island of Cinematic Views and Warm Hugs – Towards the 15th Edition! https://www.isolacinema.org/en/an-island-of-cinematic-views-and-warm-hugs-towards-the-15th-edition/ Fri, 21 Dec 2018 14:33:27 +0000 http://www.isolacinema.org/?p=21718 It was precisely six months ago, when the charming Mediterranean town of Izola waved goodbye to the 14th International Film Festival Kino Otok  – Isola Cinema. For twenty June days we intertwined the Izola programme with festival happenings in Ljubljana, Koper, Idrija, Tolmin and Sežana....

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]]> It was precisely six months ago, when the charming Mediterranean town of Izola waved goodbye to the 14th International Film Festival Kino Otok  – Isola Cinema. For twenty June days we intertwined the Izola programme with festival happenings in Ljubljana, Koper, Idrija, Tolmin and Sežana. United in a unique community, we once again successfully realized the idea of a critical and inspiring cinema island. The audience, filmmakers and festival workers jointly enjoyed the thrill, annoyance or awe when watching the films, as well as learn, network, dance, gaze at the stars, or stay up for the sunrise at the seaside. What is your favourite memory of the 14th Kino Otok? Are you already tempted to create new ones?

A new calendar year is just behind the next wave. As we are heading towards it, we share our excitement for the jubilee 15th Kino Otok edition in 2019 with some feedbacks and numbers that  marked the last edition. Celebrate with us!

”This is not a festival, it is a warm hug./…/ Izola and this festival are truly love at first sight for me.” Marco Picaredda, director of CittàGiardino

”The Kino Otok programme always strikes me for being so eclectic and relaxed at the same time, a very rare spirit you create there indeed. ” Marius Hrdy, Festival of Austrian Film Diagonale

”I love this festival, because there is no competition programme and is not commercially oriented. We need such festivals.”  Michael Pattison, film critic

”Kino Otok film festival will show from 6 to 10 June why ethno-nationalism, racism and Nazism are built into capitalism.”. Marcel Štefančič, jr., film publicist

Please take a look at the photo gallery of the 14th edition here, or immerse in the atmosphere of festival days in video daily excerpts here. This year’s festival catalogue is available online as well.

177 was the length of the longest film

1 minute long was the shortest film

4 venues under the stars of night sky

1 film about the starts of night sky in films

53 carpets on forest grounds for comfortable evenings of short films

4 nights with ethno, electronic and summer rhythms on the Lighthouse

3 virtual reality experiences

1 football match team vs. guests

57 photos during Instagram #takeover days of guests Martha Colburn, Michael Pattison, Andraž Jerič, Marko Grba Singh and Mike Ott

111 guests

120 members of the team with volunteers

12 emerging film editors and sound designers from Croatia, Italy, and Slovenia

9200 visitors

See you at Otok!

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