Film Under the Stars 2018
Animateka 2025: Festival Opening Animateka 2025: Odprtje festivala
različni avtorji / various / 55 min
Decorado Decorado
Alberto Vázquez / Spain, Portugal / 2025 / 93 min / Spanish
Following Psychonauts and Unicorn Wars, Alberto Vázquez returns with another surreal animated feature replete with black humour.
U Are the Universe U Are the Universe
Pavlo Ostrikov / Ukraine, Belgium / 2024 / 101 min / Ukrainian, French
Ostrikov’s feature debut blends existential sci-fi, romance and cosmic comedy into a genre-fluid exploration of love, loneliness and the human need for connection, love, and purpose, even in the face of existential isolation.
Traffic Reostat
Teodora Mihai / Romania, Netherlands, Belgium / 2024 / 119 min / Romanian, Dutch, English
A heist drama film develops into a trenchant and tragicomic critique of the economic hierarchies of power, while exploring the divide between the East and the West.
Shorts for Adults II: WTF OFF Kratki za odrasle II: WTF OFF
različni avtorji / various
WTF OFF, what on earth is that? A crazy programme, devised by Gala Frécon and Sébastien Sperer, consisting of 12 animated short films from all over the world. The aim of WTF OFF is to promote different animated works, often strange in terms of visuals or narrative but always consistent and impactful. Whether political or simply entertaining, the films presented in WTF OFF will constantly push the audience to their limits, offering them an hour and a minute of intense and totally offbeat pleasure. A true visual experience that will leave no one behind. Dear audience, open your eyes and your chakras to welcome this animated UFO in the best possible way. We All Just Can’t Get Enough of WTF OFF. – Sébastien Sperer
Best of the World I Svetovni jagodni izbor I
različni avtorji / various / 77 min
A programme of the best animated shorts from around the world, programmed to give you a thorough insight into the latest developments and trends in auteur animation, including many award-winners from some of the leading international festivals.
Kinotrip’s Best of the World (2025) Kinotripov svetovni jagodni izbor (2025)
različni avtorji / France, Japan, Poland, Greece, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Finland, USA, Ukraine / 2025 / 75 min
The past and the present, mania and sadness, closeness and loneliness. All this and much more is covered in this year’s selection of eight animated shorts, chosen by the members of this year’s Kinotrip team.
The Girl with the Needle Pigen med nålen
Magnus von Horn / Denmark, Poland, Sweden / 2024 / 115 min / Danish
Copenhagen at the end of World War I. When young factory worker Karoline finds herself unemployed, alone and pregnant, she meets Dagmar, a charismatic woman who runs an illegal adoption agency… This dark fairy tale for adults by Magnus von Horn (Sweat) is based on true events from Danish history.
POTS – in the Battle Against Gravity POTS – v bitki z gravitacijo
Črt Potočnik, Andrej Klanjšček Somer / Slovenia / 2025 / 20 min / Slovene
My Last Year as a Loser Ne bom več luzerka
Urša Menart / Slovenia / 2018 / 88 min / Slovene / 15+
When a twenty-nine year-old art history graduate finds herself living on her parents’ sofa, penniless, jobless and without friends, she comes to the realisation that growing up is harder than she had expected.
Inventory Inventura
Darko Sinko / Slovenia / 2021 / 106 min / Slovene
Boris Robič is an ordinary man. One evening, while reading a book in his apartment, shots are fired at him. No one understands what happened. Not him, not the police. After all, Boris lived a quiet, peaceful life and believed he had no enemies. But when the detective closes the case, Boris starts his own investigation… World premiere at the San Sebastián film festival.
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
Miri Navasky, Maeve O’Boyle, Karen O’Connor / USA / 2023 / 113 min / English
An intimate documentary portrait in which the legendary singer and activist is unusually candid about her life on and off the stage.
The End The End
Joshua Oppenheimer / Denmark, Germany / 2024 / 148 min / English
The feature debut of Joshua Oppenheimer, director of the provocative documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, is a post-apocalyptic musical about the last surviving family on earth. Twenty-five years after an environmental catastrophe, Father, Mother and Son struggle to maintain a sense of normality in their luxurious underground bunker—until the arrival of the Girl disrupts their meticulously constructed routine…
EFA: Short Films On Tour 2024 EFA: kratkometražni nominiranci za evropske filmske nagrade 2024
različni avtorji / various / 94 min
2720, Basil da Cunha; Clamor, Salomé Da Souza; The Exploding Girl, Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel; The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, Nebojša Slijepčević; Wander to Wonder, Nina Gantz
Rizal’s Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge Rizal’s Makamisa: Pantasma ng Higanti
Khavn / Philippines, Germany / 2024 / 73 min
Best of the Elephant (2025) Najboljši iz Slona (2025)
različni avtorji / 60 min / 8+
The Children Jury presents a selection of award-winning films from this year’s Elephant in Competition. The programme will be screened with English and Slovenian subtitles in case of films with dialogue.
The Great History of Western Philosophy La gran historia de la filosofía occidental
Aria Covamonas / Mexico / 2025 / 73 min / Mandarin Chinese, English, Spanish
A chaotic tale woven together by a cosmic animator tasked with making an “educational philosophical film” after committing an unknown crime, The Great History of Western Philosophy features Chairman Mao, Socrates, Mickey Mouse, Monkey King, Kant, to name just a few.
The Land Between Kiedy bede ptakiem / Avion, el pueblo ausente
Hervera in Marcos Hervera / Spain / 2012 / 88 min / Spanish, Galician
Lost Illusions Illusions perdues
Xavier Giannoli / France, Belgium / 2021 / 150 min / French
A lavish screen adaptation of Balzac’s eponymous novel, Lost Illusions is a tale of love, desire, driving literary ambitions and the power of media and money.
Bottlemen Flašaroši
Nemanja Vojinović / Serbia, Slovenia / 2023 / 84 min
This visually stunning observational documentary is a tribute to a lively, important yet invisible community. An ecological western, shot in the former cradle of Neolithic Europe, it holds a mirror to contemporary mass consumer culture.
Eight Postcards From Utopia Opt ilustrate din lumea ideala
Radu Jude / Romania / 2024 / 71 min / Romanian
A found-footage documentary assembled exclusively out of post-socialist Romanian advertisements. Drawing from the debris of Romania’s long transition period, the film speaks about love and death, the human body and its frailty, the natural and the supernatural and of course, socialism and capitalism.
Restored Slovenian Classics Restavrirani slovenski klasiki
različni avtorji / various / 70 min / Slovene
In Adam's Interest L'intérêt d'Adam
Laura Wandel / Belgium, France / 2025 / 78 min / French
A medical case challenges an experienced paediatrician’s code of ethics, while holding up a mirror to society.