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Screening at the Manzioli square, Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival 2022. Author: Amadeja Smrekar

The Kino Otok – Isola Cinema International Film Festival has been exploring the art of film since 2004, discovering various film expressions in the company of filmmakers and an audience of all generations. It focuses on world, European, and Slovenian auteur cinema. Each edition features a carefully curated non-competitive program, including around eighty films of all lengths, most of which are shown in Slovenia for the first time. The festival’s Mediterranean character is manifested in the balance between ease and temperament, which functions as its magic formula – whoever visits it wants to return again and again.

The main part of the Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival takes place at the beginning of June in Izola, while some of the screenings and meetings with filmmakers also occur in May and June at the Slovenian Cinematheque and Kinodvor City Cinema in Ljubljana, as well as at the art cinemas in Cerknica, Idrija, Sežana, and Tolmin.

Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival is organized by the Otok Cultural Institute and co-produced with the Izola Centre for Culture, Sport and Events, Slovenian Cinematheque, and Kinoatelje. Kinodvor Cinema and the Italian Self-managing National Community in Izola are main partners. It also collaborates with many other international festivals from its geographical or conceptual vicinity.

Festival sections

The festival’s programme structure is based on the distinct concept of non-competitiveness, where the focus of the audiences is exclusively on the diversity and richness of cinematic expression. The festival's film programme in Izola consists of roughly 11 sections: the main section, Arrigoni, showcases selected titles of European and world cinema with the potential to win the hearts and minds of the general audience. Films and directors presented in the Signals section distinguish themselves with highly authentic cinematic language. The Friends section consists of carte blanches given to distinguished European film critics, programmers, and filmmakers, who invite and present a film and its author(s). The Good Neighbours section is dedicated to the intriguing collective cinema evolution in our physical or symbolic vicinity. The Silvan’s Bay section is an open space for a wider experience of film through other forms of art. 35mm Cult-ure presents important films from film history in their original formats, as well as new films dedicated to the culture of analogue filmmaking and cinema-going. Home Sweet Home focuses on promoting Slovenian talent to the international festival community. Chiaro-Oscuro discloses themes that lurk in the shadows of everyday discourse. Europe 2.0 consists of a double bill including a restored film classic and a more contemporary film that resonate thematically. The short films section, Video on the Beach, is designed as a lively open platform for young filmmakers and provides a valuable overview of the latest developments in the independent scene. Submarine – Otok For Kids is dedicated to children, youth, families, as well as culture and film educators in Slovenia.

Screening of the Video on the Beach section, Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival 2014.

A Return to la Isla Bonita of Film Festivals - 15th Kino Otok IFF by Otok on YouTube

Workshops, lectures and other events

The development of an international professional audience has been one of the main strategic goals of the festival in the last decade. PRO Otok, a programme for film professionals and others interested in the film's journey from idea to screen and beyond, has fostered numerous collaborations with national and international partners, such as regional film centers, Creative Europe Desk Slovenia, Slovenian associations of film professionals, and film festivals beyond Slovenia. A residential workshop in a three-year cycle, FOCUS, was dedicated to less visible professions from the region, pairing up cinematographers and production designers, editors and sound designers, and make-up artists and costume designers. The latest major strands, such as Skill Transfer and the residential training programme Short Scene, have focused on young professional talents.

Film and poetry event at Largo pri Špini town square, Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival 2022. Author: Amadeja Smrekar

Musicians preparing for an evening performance at the Lighthouse, Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival 2022. Author: Amadeja Smrekar

Moj otok / My Island - a short film by Kino Otok Young Programmers by Otok on YouTube

International cooperation and guests

The festival places a great importance on its guests: should they be artists, professional partners, or journalists, the festival considers them simply as "friends". So one of the sections is dedicated to them – the Friends section. Friends of the Kino Otok Festival are given the chance to bring their friends and films – with no limitations.

Some notable guests of the festival from the past years are Alina Marazzi, Bill Morrison, Lisandro Alonso, Pablo Trapero, Abolfazl Jalili, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tsai Ming-liang, Nishtha Jain, William E. Jones, Albertina Carri, Darren Dean, Natalie Mansoux, Young Seok Noh, Mariano de Rosa, C.W. Winter, Giulano Ricci, etc.

Festival venues

The festival's principal screening venues are Izola's open-air cinema Arrigoni, the art cinema Odeon, the House of Culture, open-air town squares, and the forest by the beach. Evening gatherings take place next to the lighthouse by the beach, where the festival camp is set up. Before and after the festival in Izola, a selection of festival films is screened at Kinodvor Cinema and the Slovenian Cinematheque under the name Otok in Ljubljana, and at other art cinemas in northwestern Slovenia under the names Otok in Tolmin, Otok in Idrija, Otok in Sežana, and Otok in Cerknica.

Screening at Arrigoni open-air cinema, 16th Kino Otok – Isola Cinema International Film Festival, 2020.

Screening at the art cinema Odeon, Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival 2018.

18th Kino Otok - Isola Cinema IFF I Izola, Slovenia I June 2022 I Teaser video by Otok on YouTube

External links

Gallery

Screening at Arrigoni open-air cinema, 16th Kino Otok – Isola Cinema International Film Festival, 2020.

Artist Miha Erič performing in front of Salsaverde gallery at the opening of the festival exhibition of the Arts Academy of the University of Nova Gorica, Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival 2021.

Screening at the Manzioli square, Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival 2022. Author: Amadeja Smrekar

Screening of the Submarine section, Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival 2018.

Screening at the art cinema Odeon, Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival 2018.

Film and poetry event at Largo pri Špini town square, Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival 2022. Author: Amadeja Smrekar

Music nights at Isola's Lighthouse, Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival 2022.

Screening of the Video on the Beach section, Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival 2014.

Musicians preparing for an evening performance at the Lighthouse, Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival 2022. Author: Amadeja Smrekar

Filmmaking workshop for kids, organised by Luksuz Production, Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival 2013.

Tanja Hladnik, festival director of Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival, 2016.

Poster for the 20th Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival 2024.

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+The [[Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival|Kino Otok – Isola Cinema International Film Festival]] has been exploring the art of film since [[Established::2004]], discovering various film expressions in the company of filmmakers and an audience of all generations. It focuses on world, European, and Slovenian auteur cinema. Each edition features a carefully curated non-competitive program, including around eighty films of all lengths, most of which are shown in Slovenia for the first time. The festival’s Mediterranean character is manifested in the balance between ease and temperament, which functions as its magic formula – whoever visits it wants to return again and again.
-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 [[Established::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 many well-known international guests) attracts a broad national and international interest.
+The main part of the [[Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival]] takes place at the beginning of June in Izola, while some of the screenings and meetings with filmmakers also occur in May and June at the Slovenian Cinematheque and Kinodvor City Cinema in Ljubljana, as well as at the art cinemas in Cerknica, Idrija, Sežana, and Tolmin.
-It is organised by the [[Otok Cultural Institute]] and co-produced with [[Kinodvor Cinema]], [[Izola Centre for Culture, Sport and Events]], [[Slovenian Cinematheque]], [[Art kino Odeon Izola]] and Italian Self-managing National Community in Izola. It also collaborates with many other international festivals from its geographical or conceptual vicinity.
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+[[Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Festival]] is organized by the [[Otok Cultural Institute]] and co-produced with the [[Izola Centre for Culture, Sport and Events]], [[Slovenian Cinematheque]], and [[Kinoatelje]]. [[Kinodvor Cinema]] and the Italian Self-managing National Community in Izola are main partners. It also collaborates with many other international festivals from its geographical or conceptual vicinity.
 ==Festival sections==
-The festival's film programme consists of roughly 7 sections. The main one is aired at the open-air cinema in one of Izola's squares, presenting there the latest intriguing films of award-winning authors from around the globe.
+The festival’s programme structure is based on the distinct concept of non-competitiveness, where the focus of the audiences is exclusively on the diversity and richness of cinematic expression. The festival's film programme in Izola consists of roughly 11 sections: the main section, ''Arrigoni,'' showcases selected titles of European and world cinema with the potential to win the hearts and minds of the general audience. Films and directors presented in the ''Signals'' section distinguish themselves with highly authentic cinematic language. The ''Friends'' section consists of carte blanches given to distinguished European film critics, programmers, and filmmakers, who invite and present a film and its author(s). The ''Good Neighbours'' section is dedicated to the intriguing collective cinema evolution in our physical or symbolic vicinity. The ''Silvan’s Bay'' section is an open space for a wider experience of film through other forms of art. ''35mm Cult-ure'' presents important films from film history in their original formats, as well as new films dedicated to the culture of analogue filmmaking and cinema-going. ''Home Sweet Home'' focuses on promoting Slovenian talent to the international festival community. ''Chiaro-Oscuro'' discloses themes that lurk in the shadows of everyday discourse. ''Europe 2.0'' consists of a double bill including a restored film classic and a more contemporary film that resonate thematically. The short films section, ''Video on the Beach,'' is designed as a lively open platform for young filmmakers and provides a valuable overview of the latest developments in the independent scene. ''Submarine – Otok For Kids'' is dedicated to children, youth, families, as well as culture and film educators in Slovenia.
-The remaining sections are: ''Signals'', which concentrates upcoming talents that question current or past social topics; ''Good Neighbours'', with a focus on short film format and selected authors (in the past works by Boris Poljak, Hana Jušić, Sonja Tarokić and Icelandic short films were presented) or festival picks; ''Submarine'', where youth and animated films are shown; and the ''Video on the Beach'', in which young and unknown authors present their short works. A very peculiar section is the Silvan Cinema School (or Silvan's Bay). Defined as "a space, not a school, a space for experiencing and narrating films, films and life", it is dedicated to [[Silvan Furlan]] (1953&ndash;2005), the godfather of the festival and founder of the [[Slovenian Cinematheque]]. There is also a section entitled ''Friends'', which is curated by invited local and international supporters of the festival.
+{{Image|6 Kino-Otok.jpeg}}
+{{YouTube|KYqAK6jWnZc}}
-In the past the festival audience rated the best film, which granted the winning films a regular distribution in Slovene cinema network. Some of the past winners of the festival are ''Saratan'' by Ernest Abdidzhaparov, ''Granny'' [Babusya] by Russian director Lidia Bobrova, ''Full or Empty'' by Iranian New Wave filmmaker Abolfazl Jalili, ''Prince of Broadway'' by Sean Baker, and ''Taxiphone: El Mektoub'' by director Mohammed Soudani, Swiss-Algerian co-production.
 ==Workshops, lectures and other events==
-Among the events hosted at the Kino Otok Festival, lectures and workshops tend to get the most attention. At previous festival editions ''The Happy DV'' workshop, organised in collaboration with [[Luksuz Production]], enabled local film enthusiasts to get acquainted with the practical and theoretical secrets of the seventh art and make their own short films. Recently, the [[Creative Europe Desk Slovenia]] also got involved, organising, for example, a scriptwriting workshop, led by Miguel Machalski.
+The development of an international professional audience has been one of the main strategic goals of the festival in the last decade. ''PRO Otok'', a programme for film professionals and others interested in the film's journey from idea to screen and beyond, has fostered numerous collaborations with national and international partners, such as regional film centers, Creative Europe Desk Slovenia, Slovenian associations of film professionals, and film festivals beyond Slovenia. A residential workshop in a three-year cycle, ''FOCUS'', was dedicated to less visible professions from the region, pairing up cinematographers and production designers, editors and sound designers, and make-up artists and costume designers. The latest major strands, such as ''Skill Transfer'' and the residential training programme ''Short Scene,'' have focused on young professional talents.
+{{Image|4 Kino-Otok.jpg}}
+{{Image|8 Kino-Otok.jpg}}
-In co-operation with [[Kino! Magazine for Cinema and Cinematic Issues]] the festival hosts a four-day young critics workshop ''Sharpening the View''. Other similar events have a more occasional character and are usually linked to visiting guests, though some sort of a musical programme tends to be held regularly.
+{{YouTube|r43OusW0dIM}}
 == International cooperation and guests==
-The festival places a great importance on its guests: should they be artists, professional partners, or journalists, the festival considers them simply as "friends". So one of the sections is dedicated to them &ndash; the ''Friends'' section. Friends of the Kino Otok Festival are given the chance to bring their friends and films &ndash; with no limitations. Among the regular members of the ''Friends'' "gang" are the British film critic Neil Young, the director of the Innsbruck film festival Helmut Groschup, and the Germany-based critic of the magazine ''Film Comment'' Olaf Möller.
+The festival places a great importance on its guests: should they be artists, professional partners, or journalists, the festival considers them simply as "friends". So one of the sections is dedicated to them – the ''Friends'' section. Friends of the Kino Otok Festival are given the chance to bring their friends and films – with no limitations.
-Some notable guests of the festival from the past years are Lisandro Alonso, Pablo Trapero, Abolfazl Jalili, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tsai Ming-liang, Nishtha Jain, William E. Jones, Albertina Carri, Darren Dean, Natalie Mansoux, Young Seok Noh, Mariano de Rosa, C.W. Winter, Giulano Ricci, Hrvoje Laurenta, Hrönn Marinósdóttir etc.
+Some notable guests of the festival from the past years are Alina Marazzi, Bill Morrison, Lisandro Alonso, Pablo Trapero, Abolfazl Jalili, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tsai Ming-liang, Nishtha Jain, William E. Jones, Albertina Carri, Darren Dean, Natalie Mansoux, Young Seok Noh, Mariano de Rosa, C.W. Winter, Giulano Ricci, etc.
 == Festival venues ==
-The festival's principal venues are the [[Art kino Odeon Izola]], the [[Izola Cultural Centre]] and Izola's Manzioli Square where the evening open-air screenings take place. Evening gatherings take place next to the Lighthouse, where a camp is set up.
+The festival's principal screening venues are Izola's open-air cinema Arrigoni, the [[Art kino Odeon Izola|art cinema Odeon]], the House of Culture, open-air town squares, and the forest by the beach. Evening gatherings take place next to the lighthouse by the beach, where the festival camp is set up. Before and after the festival in Izola, a selection of festival films is screened at [[Kinodvor Cinema]] and the [[Slovenian Cinematheque]] under the name ''Otok in Ljubljana'', and at other art cinemas in northwestern Slovenia under the names Otok in Tolmin, Otok in Idrija, Otok in Sežana, and Otok in Cerknica.
+{{Image|1 Kino-Otok.jpeg}}
+{{Image|3 Kino-Otok.jpg}}
-In days after the festival in Izola a selection of festival films is screened at [[Kinodvor Cinema]] and the [[Slovenian Cinematheque]] under the name ''Isola Cinema in Ljubljana''.
+{{YouTube|KPrA7s-16zI}}
 ==See also==
 * [[Otok Cultural Institute]]
-* [[Kino Otok Award]]
 * [[Luksuz Production]]
 * [[Kino! Magazine for Cinema and Cinematic Issues]]
 * [[Slovenian Cinematheque]]
 * [[Art kino Odeon Izola]]
+* [[Kinodvor Cinema]]
 ==External links==
-* [http://www.isolacinema.org/en/ Kino Otok website]
+* [https://kinootok.org Kino Otok website]
-* [http://www.luksuz.si/eng/ Luksuz Productions website]
+* [http://www.luksuz.si/eng/ Luksuz Production website]
 * [http://alexistioseco.wordpress.com/2008/04/ Comment on the festival by Alexis Tioseco]
 * [http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/content/view/788/1/ Open letter to the former Slovene minister of culture Vasko Simoniti by Neil Young]
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+[[Category:Film_courses,_workshops_and_residencies]]
+[[Category:Film_education_and_research]]

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Festival sections

Workshops, lectures and other events

International cooperation and guests

Festival venues

See also

External links

Gallery

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