Eye on Film Festival

Contact

Festival Film na oko

Gallusovo nabrežje 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://filmnaoko.si

Founded byVizo

Organised byVizo

Frequencyannual

Festival dates3.10.2015 - 7.10.2015

The international Film Festival for Children and Youth Eye on Film was launched in 2015 by Vizo, an NGO intent on advancing the state of film culture amongst the Slovenian youth (and adults as well). Its name, Eye on Film, is a translation of Film na oko, an untranslatable word game. As its name implies, the festival presents a selection of feature films, animated films and short films that are most appropriate for the different audiences between the ages of 6 and 18 years.

The festival is of an inter-regional character and the screenings take place at about a dozen cinemas of the Art Cinema Network around Slovenia, from Ljubljana and Maribor to Slovenj Gradec and Krško. A programme of archival films took place at the Slovenian Cinematheque.

Film programme

The presented films are of a very divers nature, going from archive pieces like Fellini's Amarcord (intended for the age group of 15 – 18 years) to contemporary animated films and also a set of short films by students from Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT). The first edition, for example, had some more than 50 films, with the bigger part of them being European productions and only a small number – equalled by those from Asia and from South America – came from the United States.

About a half of these were short films, culled from the programmes of Anthropological Film Festival of Children and Youth in Ljubljana, KIKI festival, International Children’s Film Festival (HR) and Animateka International Animated Film Festival.

There is also a competitive section, in which the best film is chosen by the part of the audience aged between 6 and 12 years. The winner in 2015, for example, was the Italian-Grench co-production Il ragazzo invisibile by Gabriele Salvatores.

Side programme

Additional screenings in primary and high schools around Slovenia were done together with various film creators and experts, who led accompanying lectures and discussion on films. There was also a course and a competition on film criticism for young writers, prepared in cooperation with Ekran, Magazine for Film and Television and Kino! Magazine for Cinema and Cinematic Issues.

See also

• Vizo
• Slovenian Cinematheque
• Animateka International Animated Film Festival

External links

• Film na oko Festival website