The Kino Otok – Isola Cinema Festival is a specialised, non-competitive festival that focuses on presenting contemporary, geographically and aesthetically very heterogeneous film production. It was launched in 2004 in the small coastal town of Izola, and although it remains a relatively small festival, its specific film programme (which usually brings several hard-to-see films and […]

Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson / Iceland, Poland, France / 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8uRl1RSKwk

Xavier Giannoli / France / 2018

Michaël R. Roskam / Belgium, France, Netherlands / 2017

Samuel Maoz / Israel, Germany, France / 2017

Yorgos Lanthimos / United Kingdom, Ireland / 2017

Title: Riders Genre: feature fiction film Director: Dominik Mencej Scriptwriters: Boris Grgurović, Dominik Mencej Producer: Staragara Countries of co-production: Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia, Bosna and Hercegovina Story: Two friends from a small village transform their mopeds into choppers and embark on a journey, traveling through dreams of the past and visions of the future, looking […]

The festival is organised by the Film Department of the Cankarjev dom Cultural and Congress Centre, but films are also screened at Slovenian Cinematheque, Kinodvor Cinema, Kinoklub Vič and Kolosej Maribor. It can be classified as a specialised competitive festival that features an overview of contemporary world film production, but also focuses on emerging directors […]