 Aug 9 2024 - Aug 24 2024

 Ljubljana

The Slovenian Cinematheque will screen a number of classics, films by great auteurs and short films in its admission-free open-air cinema at Museum Plaza in Metelkova in Ljubljana.

The series will open on 9 August with the screening of a digitalised and remastered copy of a 1972 film by Bosnian director Bahrudin Čengić, Life of a Shock Force Worker (Slike iz Života Udarnika).

Also screened will be My Twentieth Century by Ildiko Enyedi, Tropical Malady by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and music videos that won awards at the 15th Tresk Festival.

From 13 to 18 August, films combining moving pictures and poetry will be shown, accompanied by talks featuring poets and writers.

The first one will be Sayat Nova, a 1969 film in which Soviet director Sergei Parajanov uses poetic cinematic language to present the great 18th century Armenian poet and musician Harutyun Sayakyan.

The 10th anniversary of the death of Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun will be marked with a screening of Pumpkin on the Hot Roof of the World, a documentary about his life and work, and a talk with co-director Jeffrey Young, American-Slovenian writer Erica Johnson Debeljak and poet Gregor Podlogar.

Films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jim Jarmusch, Roy Andersson and Abbas Kiarostami will also be shown.

The open-air cinema series will close with FeKK, a six-day international festival of short film.

For a full programme, visit the event's site (in Slovenian only) here.