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16 Mar 2015
21 Mar 2015
Screenings of The Parade, co-produced by Forum Ljubljana, and a presentation of the Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe) by Simon Popek at the Festival International du Film d'Aubagne
As many similar film festivals around the world also the Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe) is focusing on young filmmakers in its main competitive section - the Perspectives section. Namely the section is offering a thoughtful selection of first and second feature films from emerging young directors that had their international premier at important film festival around the world (Rotterdam, Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Torino, ...). The best film from that section, selected by the three-member international jury, is bestowed with the Kingfisher Award (introduced in 1996). In the past years the award went to film like East Palace West Palace (Dong gong, xi gong) by Zhang Yuan, The Dreamlife of Angels (La vie reveé des anges) by Erick Zonca, Bred and Milk (Kruh in mleko) by Jan Cvitkovič and Hunger by Steve McQueen.
Other sections of the Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe) are: the Avant-premieres is the most commercially oriented section since it includes major international productions from established directors that will be screened later in the commercial distribution; the King and queens section brings a variety of works by renowned and awarded masters of contemporary cinema; the World film panorama section is meant for festival favourites from all over the world; with the Extravaganza section the so called ‘midnight cinema’ is brought to fans of daring, bizzare and titillating contents of diverse genres; the Focus section offers an insight into one (or more) of the hottest national cinematographies; the Retrospective section offers an overall presentation of the work by an important contemporary filmmaker; the Tribute section brings a short, condensed presentation of an author who has received a fair share of festival and media attention; the last two sections of the Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe) are the youngest ones since they were introduced just in the last two years: the Kinobalon section is dedicated to the youngest audience as it offers a selection of films for children aged 7 to 14, carefully selected with the help of the Kinodvor Cinema stuff, while the The world in short is a competitive section for short films by young filmmakers.
Numerous awards are presented at the Festival. The main festival award is the Kingfisher Award (introduced in 1996) - presented by three-member international jury - that goes to best film of the Perspectives. The Audience Award (introduced in 2000 as a Golden Reel Award; in 2008 it become the Dragon Award) can be bestowed to any film of the festival; the FIPRESCI Award is awarded by the International Federation of Film Critics; Best Short Film Award goes to best film of the section The world in short.
Ljubljana International Film Festival has been a member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) since 1992. It is also a member of Europa Cinemas, the Association of European Film Exhibitors, Paris ECFF, the European Co-ordination of Film Festivals (ECFF), Brussels and the Motion Pictures Association, Brussels.
The 20th Ljubljana International Film Festival of 2009 featured as many as 106 films (15 shorts). For 254 official screenings they sold 46.000 tickets. It closed with the screening of Bent Hamer's latest film O'Horten (part of that year's World film panorama section). Radmila Djurica, member of the three-member FIPRESCI jury, bestowed the FIPRESCI Award to the US independent drama Go Get Some Rosemary, presented in the Perspective festival section. The winner of the 2009 Dragon Award, bestowed by the audience for the best film of the festival, was the Canadian bittersweet drama I Killed My Mother, directed by Xavier Dolan. The prestigious Kingfisher Award went to Croatian dark war drama Blacks by Goran Dević and Zvonimir Jurić. The three-member jury decided to give a Special Mention to the Romanian film Police, Adjective by Corneliu Porumboiu, presented in the Perspectives section.
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