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Mountain Film Festival

Dedicated to exploring and presenting various facets of mountain culture, the Mountain Film Festival was established in 2007. Since then, it has been running a strong international program that encompasses various films about mountain sports (mountaineering, mountain running, B.A.S.E jumping, etc.), different types of climbing (from bouldering to ice climbing), mountain wildlife, and the lives of indigenous mountain dwellers, among other topics. Since its inception, the festival has been led by its founder, the legendary mountaineer Silvo Karo.

Over the years, the festival has grown to the point where it is now comparable to the biggest and most important mountain film festivals worldwide. In 2010, the Mountain Film Festival became a member of the International Alliance for Mountain Film.

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European Capital of Culture

Nova Gorica–Gorizia, European Capital of Culture 2025

Since its inception in 1985, over 40 cities have won the prestigious European Capital of Culture (ECoC) title. Forty years later, however, the border cities of Nova Gorica in Slovenia and Gorizia in Italy are the first ones to turn this annual celebration of culture into a genuinely cross-border endeavour. Based on these cities' specific political, cultural and geographical context, their 2025 ECoC programme explores the concept of borders from multiple dimensions under the slogan “Go! Borderless”.

The opening event From Station to Station will take place on the Slovenian cultural holiday on 8 February.

Light markings GO!2025

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GO2025 The City Yet to Become

Miha Kosovel of Razpotja magazine introduces the term transfrontal and reminds us of how understanding the history of a region can better prepare us for the mental and physical shifts needed in co-creating a new reality.

Music discovery festival

MENT Ljubljana

Established in 2015, MENT Ljubljana is an international music showcase festival taking place at various Ljubljana venues in February. It is comprised of a series of music acts (fresh artists joined by established head-liners), a conference programme dealing with the intricacies of music businesses, and additional events such as exhibitions or workshops on new art and media technologies. Moreover, MENT is a year-long project intended to help Slovene musicians and music professionals with promotion and networking. To this end, MENT enlists and accompanies them to other showcase festivals.

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MENT Ljubljana at Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, 2023.

Slovene art abroad 2010 – 2024

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France Grenoble Esplanade of the Grenoble Museum

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Cyanometer, the new media installation by Martin Bricelj Baraga. Promoted by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Paris.
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Austria Vienna Unteres Belvedere

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"The World in Colours. Slovenian Painting 1848-1918", selected Slovenian painting of the period at the biggest exhibition of Slovenian art in Vienna to date, coorganised by National Gallery of Slovenia in collaboration with Belvedere Museum. Promoted by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Vienna.
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France Paris Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme

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The 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp marked by the display of the one of the most powerful and beautiful paintings in the "We Are Not the Last" series by Zoran Mušič. Promoted by Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Paris.

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Germany Berlin Staadsballet Berlin

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Ein Sommernachtstraum: a ballet by Edward Clug, inspired by William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. With music by Milko Lazar.

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25 Feb 2025

United Kingdom London Rudolf Steiner House

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The Wisdom of Fairy Tales, talk with Marko Pogačnik and the launch of his new book "Grimm's Fairy Tales Decoded", offering a fresh perspective on the symbolic meanings and spiritual insights. Supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in London.

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13 Apr 2025

Austria St. Johann im Rosental/Šentjanž v Rožu K&K Center

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Elder's Tale , produced by Ljubljana Puppet Theatre,

Festivals

Festivals in Slovenia

Festivals are up and running!

Our graphic calendar of festivals shows 168 festivals in 2024.

Explore all the upcoming festivals at the interactive Festivals in Slovenia infographic.

The printed version of the calendar of Festivals in Slovenia in 2012 contains 141 festivals. Later on, in 2019, the festival number rose to 199. Check out the current annual festivalscape.

Images

Museum of Modern Art is the central museum and gallery of the Slovenian art works from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Female nude, by Zdenko Kalin and Echo, by Karl Putrih.
The Stroj performing at Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, 2014
Site-specific installation in the forest at the Floating Castle Festival in the vicinity of Snežnik Castle, 2015
The Čaplja service building at the Nordic Centre Planica designed by the STVAR architects, 2016
Corporate identity for the Museum of Architecture and Design by IlovarStritar design studio, 2011
Pocar Homestead, Mojstrana main dwelling from the outside, built in 1775
The tank from the Ten-Day War in Slovenia (1991) in front of the National Museum of Contemporary History. On the eve of the International Women's Day in 2012 it was sprayed pink by the unknown activists and became a new popular landmark in Ljubljana. It is owned by the Military Museum of Slovenian Armed Forces and was transferred to the Park of Military History Pivka only a few months after the action. The pink paint was removed.
A Place under the Sun by students of the Chair of Textile and Fashion Design at the Department of Textiles of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011