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Main Competition II (2023) Tekmovalni program II (2023)

različni avtorji / various / 73 min

The best new animated films from Central and Eastern Europe in the running for the Audience Award and the Jury Grand Prix. The filmmakers featured in this strand include animation legends and debut filmmakers alike, and everyone in between.

A guerra finita / Once War Is Over
Simone Massi (Simone Massi/Emergency ONG Onlus)
Italy, 2022, 4'45"

A world without war is another utopia that we can no longer wait to happen.

Disc+dog
Tomek Ducki (Pigeon Productions/King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture - Ithra Production)
Poland, Saudi Arabia, 2023, 5'46"

A frisbee game of three dogs gets out of control while they get tangled up in social ties. What happens if one of them get excluded from the game?

27
Flóra Anna Buda (Miyu Productions/Boddah)
France, Hungary, 2023, 10'38"

Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she feels hindered by it, she still lives with her parents and tends to exist in her dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bicycle accident. Will this give her the courage to enter adulthood?

O krávě / About A Cow
Pavla Baštanová (MAUR film/Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduction/SRF)
Czechia, Switzerland, 2023, 12'55"

An imaginative and playful collage of images from the life of cows. A mosaic of small stories from all over the world, in which cows experience positive and negative moments, depicts the life of an animal in a global world and its relationship with humans. The visually colourful images portray the cow as a sensitive creature worthy of admiration. With its stylized poetry, playfulness and humor, the film gives hope for a better world.

Die graue March / Greylands
Alvaro Schoeck, Charlotte Waltert (Virage Film/RTS)
Switzerland, 2023, 11'50"

An autumn day and the first winter night in the high mountains: it is hunting season. The paths of animals and humans cross and fade away. Swathes of mist blur the boundaries between dream, imagination and reality.

Sweet Dreams
Maria Zilli, Sara Priorelli (independent)
Italy, 2022, 4'52"

Sweet Dreams is a black comedy set in a remote motel, where the housekeeper is stuck in her monotonous work life. Sick of the repetitive humiliations by the employees and the motel guests, the woman eventually loses control and the feeling of revenge overcomes her.

The Crowd
Pelin Kirca (independent)
Turkey, 2022, 7'05"

The crowd is the untruth.

Obiteljski portret / The Family Portrait
Lea Vidaković (Adriatic Animation/Vivement Lundi!/Biberche Productions)
Croatia, France, Serbia, 2023, 14'35"

As Austro-Hungary teeters on collapse, Andras and his daughter are taken aback by the visit from Andras' unpredictable brother, Zoltan, who comes accompanied by his large family.

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Film Under the Stars / Avant Premiere

Wisdom of Happiness Wisdom of Happiness

Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis

Wednesday, 16. 07. 2025 / 21:30 / The Ljubljana Castle

With disarming wit, the Dalai Lama reflects on balancing millennia-old Tibetan Buddhist traditions with the contemporary values of our globalised society that now struggles to overcome violence and war while standing on the brink of environmental collapse. In this intimate heart-to-heart, the nearly 90-year-old Nobel Peace Laureate and the world’s greatest ambassador for compassion brings a timely message of hope. Wisdom of Happiness blends the Dalai Lama’s inspirational words with stirring images of our planet and newly unearthed archival footage.

Little Trouble Girls Kaj ti je deklica

Urška Djukić

Thursday, 17. 07. 2025 / 21:30 / The Ljubljana Castle

Urška Djukić’s (Granny’s Sexual Life) debut feature explores the power of girls’ voices to overturn traditional ideas and patriarchal patterns through the eyes of a shy and sensitive 16-year-old girl, Lucija. The opening film of the Perspectives Competition and winner of the FIPRESCI Award for Best First Film at this year’s Berlinale.

A Complete Unknown A Complete Unknown

James Mangold

Friday, 18. 07. 2025 / 21:30 / The Ljubljana Castle

A much-anticipated biographical drama about the rise of one of the most influential songwriters in history, who changed the course of American music.