30. Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe)

Ljubljana International Film Festival – Liffe
Slovenia’s biggest international film festival comparable to some of Europe’s main film showcases features outstanding achievements in global cinematography and major festival prize-winners (Cannes, Rotterdam, Berlin, Amsterdam, Vienna, etc.).
Liffe annually attracts between 40,000 and 50,000 cinema-goers and film enthusiasts wishing to keep abreast of the global cinematic trends. The festival caters to all ages, from the youngest audiences to seniors, thus linking all generations. Festival Director Simon Popek makes a well-chosen selection among the 700 films he sees throughout the season. Screenings of over a hundred films are accompanied by talks with festival guests and filmmakers, as well as round tables and workshops.

Festival sections: Perspectives, the official competitive section of young filmmakers competing for the Kingfisher Award sponsored by Telekom Slovenije, d.d. / Avant-premieres, a selection of the world’s finest films purchased for Slovenian distribution / Kings and Queens, films by notable and award-winning virtuosos of contemporary cinema / World Film Panorama, front-runners in five-continent festivals / Extravaganza, so-called late-night cinema of daring artists addressing idiosyncratic or sensual topics / Kinobalon, a selection of films for audiences aged between 7 and 14; 10^th anniversary; in association with the Kinodvor Cinema / Europe in Short, competitive programme of short film / Focus / Tribute / Retrospective;

30th Liffe Statistics
Liffe screened 96 full-length and 25 short films from 54 countries: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Greece, Guatemala, Croatia, India, Iceland, Italy, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Kazakhstan, China, Colombia, Kosovo, Cuba, Latvia, Luxemburg, Hungary, Mexico, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Soviet Union, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Uruguay, Great Britain, USA.
282 screenings took place, of which 20 in Maribor, 5 in Celje and 5 in Novo mesto.
53 screenings were sold out, over 48,000 tickets were issued.
Festival was attended by 50 guests, filmmakers and jury members coming from: Austria, Brazil, Montenegro, Denmark, France, Croatia, North Macedonia, Mexico, Germany, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Cuba, Serbia, USA, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Taiwan.
There were 34 after-screening talks with the filmmakers.
One ton of apples was eaten throughout Liffe in the Festival centre at Cankarjev dom.

Cankarjev dom

(Leader)

Funded projects

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Cultural BEES

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Story (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Operation Nova

Moving Balkans

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Our Little Library: Literary Exchanges

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo. An interactive digital tool that brings kids closer to classical music (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!

SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage

SPECTRUM 14|15

Small Size, Performing Arts for Early Years

Performing the Museum

Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age