Ljubljana International Film Festival (Liffe)

The festival wants a strong personal presence from filmmakers, to interact with audiences and share their invaluable artistic experiences. Liffe is an attractive and communicative platform for young filmmakers, cineastes and representatives of the film industry, a festival of manageable size, which centers around experiencing film in a relaxed atmosphere.

27th edition …

One very direct link with audiences is the introduction of “Kinotrip”, a sub-section of our “Kinobalon” youth section, where schoolchildren are asked (under professional tutorship) to independently create their own film program, therefore breaking the boundaries between “official” programmers and the audience.

Liffe is also recognizing the importance of new technologies and social media, especially when addressing younger audiences who are at the focal point of festival’s development programs. Education initiatives, cooperation with schools, interaction with international guests remain one of festival’s main goals, also strengthening decentralized events and collaboration with Slovenia’s Art Cinema Network and other film festivals, such as Zagreb FF and Brussels FF. Liffe has long ago ceased to be only a »Ljubljana« film festival, it has addressed regional and international partners alike. We will be adding the third Slovenian city into our festival landscape; after Maribor, the cities of Celje and Novo mesto will be added as festival centers.

Ljubljana International Film Festival (Liffe)

(Partner)

Since 1990, the Ljubljana International Film Festival (popularly known as Liffe), the biggest and most important international film event in Slovenia, has devoted its program each year to idiosyncratic, contemporary and socio-political auteur cinema from Europe and around the world. Over the twelve days of the festival, Liffe offers international film and press representatives and guests of the film industry and the local cinema audience a program with approximately 120 outstanding, hand-picked films, documentaries and short subjects. Festival's main prize, The Kingfisher, is awarded to best young filmmaker from our Perspectives section. The festival wants a strong personal presence from filmmakers, to interact with audiences and share their invaluable artistic experiences. Liffe is an attractive and communicative platform for young filmmakers, cineastes and representatives of the film industry, a festival of manageable size, which centers around experiencing film in a relaxed atmosphere.

27th edition ...

In 2016, audience development actions will be upheld and strengthened with major partners, they will be preparing film educational programs for different age groups. A special Youth Film Jury will be introduced - watching and awarding a selection of films that are tackling important youth and adolescent issues. One very direct link with audiences is the introduction of “Kinotrip”, a sub-section of our “Kinobalon” youth section, where schoolchildren are asked (under professional tutorship) to independently create their own film program, therefore breaking the boundaries between “official” programmers and the audience. Liffe is also recognizing the importance of new technologies and social media, especially when addressing younger audiences who are at the focal point of festival's development programs. Education initiatives, cooperation with schools, interaction with international guests remain one of festival's main goals, also strengthening decentralized events and collaboration with Slovenia’s Art Cinema Network and other film festivals, such as Zagreb FF and Brussels FF. Liffe has long ago ceased to be only a »Ljubljana« film festival, it has addressed regional and international partners alike. We will be adding the third Slovenian city into our festival landscape; after Maribor, the cities of Celje and Novo mesto will be added as festival centers.

Funded projects

CAFÈ: Redefining Historic Cafés as European Cultural Heritage

ArtElevate – Fostering inclusive cultural expression in Europe

CARE – Culture for Mental Health

Glassmaking Between Tradition and Innovation

WONDERCUT – Collaboratively Exploring the Public Value of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Next Level Cultural Experiences

Heroes Unleashed: Implementing a Sensory Reading Program in European Public Libraries

DATAS – The Data and the Sovereign

TALKING HEADS – Conversation with the art of the past

Libraries of Emotions for Good

GreenHeritage – Nurturing a sustainable future in the gardens of time

G-BOOK 3

PAGE: a Project for Advancing coGnitivE accessibility in publishing

DIGITAL on STAGE – Unleashing the Performing Arts Experience through Digital Innovation

OASis – Open Art Spaces in Synergy

Transport: Sustainable puppet co-creations for European young audiences

Danube Dance Alliance for Development of Contemporary Dance Scene in the Danube Region

Mind the GAP

Beletrina Digital

WOMEN interACT - participatory theatre against the double exclusion of women

TECH(ing) TALES WITH A TWIST for the children of the present

DoSEL – Drama of Smaller European Languages

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: 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

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

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

Connected with Books (CWB)

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 (OLL LE)

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)