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

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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

External links

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 ==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.
-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.
-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.
 == International cooperation and guests==
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 ==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://alexistioseco.wordpress.com/2008/04/ Comment on the festival by Alexis Tioseco]

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Festival sections

Workshops, lectures and other events

International cooperation and guests

Festival venues

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