Kinoatelje Institute

Contact

Zavod Kinoatelje

Erjavčeva 51, SI-5000 Nova Gorica

http://www.kinoatelje.it

zavodkinoatelje@kinoatelje.it

Phone39 (0) 41 353 261

The Kinoatelje Institute was established in 2003 to enrich and facilitate the cross-border cultural projects between Slovenia and Italy. Its main mission is to promote film culture by implementing different productions, programmes, and projects which are particularly open to the development of new forms of creative practices. The institute’s activity is focused largely on the cross-border towns of Nova Gorica and Gorizia.

Programme

In coproduction with Kinoatelje (Italy) is organizing the cross-border film festival Tribute to a Vision, home to the ever-growing film platform First Crossings, developed as an inherent part of the festival and dedicated to the research of new film languages, focusing particularly on younger authors and audiences.

In cooperation with the Municipality of Nova Gorica the Kinoatelje Institute organizes the traditional city’s open-air cinema Letni kino Silvana Furlana.

Production

In the last two decades, the Kinoatelje Institute has produced several multimedia projects and documentaries, exploring the complexity of border identities through personal and collective memory. The author tandem Nadja Velušček and Anja Medved, long-standing associates, conceived and directed many documentaries. Among them Town in the Meadow (Mesto na Travniku, 2004) and The Moment of the River (Trenutek reke, 2010).

Upon joining the EU in 2004, and entering the Schengen area on December 20 2007, Slovenia abolished the borders with other EU member states. This occurrence gave way to long-run project where the public was invited to donate memories and fragments of family and archive films. From this, emerged documentaries such as Smuggler’s Confessional (Spovednica tihotapcev, 2010), Looking Through the Iron Curtain (Pogledi skozi železno zaveso, 2010), and others.

Kinoatelje’s film collection also features A Small Apocalypse (Mala Apokalipsa, 2008) by Alvaro Petricig, Beyond the Wire (Onstran žice, 2012), a documentary feature film about the Gonars concentration camp directed by Dorino Minigutti, and the feature debut A Calm Day (Miren dan, 2018) by Jan Mozetič.

Educational programme

Every year several educational programmes and seminars are put forward during all year, among them the traditional one-week Youth Film Campus, dedicated to kids and the youth. Some films made during this project received awards in different festivals.

See also

• Kinoatelje in Gorica/Gorizia

External links

• Kinoatelje website (in Slovenian and Italian)
• Tribute to a Vision, a cross-border film festival website
• Institute portfolio on the Slovene Film Centre website
• Kinoatelje’s portfolio on the Slovene Film Centre website
• Darko Bratina intellectual heritage website