31/01/2023 - The institution has shared information about its activities past and future, from the success of Slovenian cinema at home and abroad last year, to filming, distribution and festival schedules for 2023
The institution has shared information about its activities past and future, from the success of Slovenian cinema at home and abroad last year, to filming, distribution and festival schedules for 2023
31/01/2023 - L'istituzione ha condiviso informazioni sul successo del cinema sloveno in patria e all'estero l'anno scorso e i programmi di distribuzione e festival per il 2023
31/01/2023 - The institution has shared information about its activities past and future, from the success of Slovenian cinema at home and abroad in 2022, to filming, distribution and festival schedules for 2023
Klemen Kostrevc and Domen Novak in Let Him Be a Basketball Player 2 by Boris Bezić
LJUBLJANA: Several film projects were interrupted because of the Coronavirus pandemic, most of them postponed to a later date, some of them to 2021; film theatres and multiplexes were more or less closed almost all year (completely closed for five months, operating with limited seating capacity for another five months). For the same reason the distribution and cinema releases were very limited, which resulted in a drop in cinema attendance of almost 80%.
The Slovenian Film Centre (SFC), which had announced a new strategy for the next four years in November 2019, found itself in a compromised position with the Slovenian Government fulfilling its financial obligations only on the very last day of 2020. Not being able to execute the majority of already confirmed payments to the Slovenian producers during the year caused a major protest and jeopardised the existence of many film projects and the Slovenian filmmakers themselves.