 Mar 12 2025 - Mar 19 2025

 Ljubljana

The 27th Documentary Film Festival will feature around 25 films, including the Oscar winner No Other Land, a biopic on iconic Slovenian singer-songwriter Zoran Predin, and Fiume or Death!, a reconstruction of a 1919 attempt by Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio to annex Rijeka to Italy.

Five of the films will be in the running for the Amnesty International Slovenia award for best film on human rights, including No Other Land, a film by a Palestinian-Israeli collective dealing with the theme of apartheid in the West Bank.

The competitive section will also show Intercepted, where Ukrainian director Oksana Karpovych juxtaposes intercepted phone calls of the Russian soldiers in Ukraine calling their families back home with images of the destruction caused by the invasion.

Another entry is Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat by Belgian director Johan Grimonprez, which is both a music documentary and a critique of colonialism during the liberation of the Congo in the late 1950s.

In Far from being Lipizzans the Austria-based Serbian director Olga Kosanović shows the difficulties of obtaining Austrian citizenship in a playful way, while Polish director Maciej Drygas uses archival footage to depict the role of the train in the 20th century in Trains.

Off the competitive section, nature lovers will love Among the Wolves about the life of the species in the no-man's-land between Finland and Russia, and The Night Visitors, a meditative documentary and an aesthetic spectacle about moths.

For music lovers there will be a film about Nick Cave and his band The Birthday Party, and Things We Said Today about The Beatles' second US tour in 1965 and the broader social realities of that time.

The retrospective will be dedicated to Slovenian director Maja Weiss to mark her 60th birthday.

The screenings will be held in Cankarjev Dom as well as the Kinodvor Cinema and the Slovenian Cinematheque. For details and tickets, click here.