PORTOROŽ: Rok Biček's documentary The Family won the Vesna Award for best film of the 20th Slovenian Film Festival, which ran in Portorož from 12 to 16 September 2017. The Vesna award for the best feature film went to Janez Burger’s drama Ivan, a film that also won seven other awards.

PORTOROŽ: Alen Drljević’s debut feature Men Don't Cry / Muškarci ne plaču was screened in the competition of the 20th Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož (12-16 September 2017). This brilliantly directed drama, which explores how we can only forgive others once we have forgiven ourselves, has been chosen as the official candidate from Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences nomination 2017 in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

PORTOROŽ: Miha Čelar’s docudrama Codelli will be screened in the competition of the 20th Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož (12-16 September 2017). This poetic documentary tells a story about the life of Baron Antonio Codelli, an almost unknown Slovenian inventor, who also produced the first feature film made in Africa.

PORTOROŽ: Miha Knific’s third feature film Perseverance / Vztrajanje will be screened in the competition of the 20th Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož (12-16 September 2017). The film is a Slovenian/Croatian/Italian coproduction.

PORTOROŽ: Boštjan Slatenšek’s sophomore feature film A Dream / Privid will be screened in the competition of the 20th Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož (12-16 September 2017). The film is the first coproduction between Slovenia and the Republic of Kosovo.

PORTOROŽ: The Slovenian/Croatian coproduction Every Good Story Is a Love Story by Matjaž Ivanišin and Rajko Grlić will be screened in the competition of the 20th Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož (12-16 September 2017). This documentary follows the production of the theatre play Boris, Milena, Radko and the four well-known people involved in it: writer/director Dušan Jovanović, actress Milena Zupančić and actors Radko Polić and Boris Cavazza.

PORTOROŽ: Ksana by Dejan Babosek will be screened in the competition of the 20th Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož (12-16 September 2017). Babosek’s second feature film is the story of two brothers who want to regain their lost childhood connection.

PORTOROŽ: The documentary The Last Ice Hunters / Zadnji ledeni lovci by Jure Breceljnik and Rožle Bregar will be screened in the competition of the 20th Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož (12-16 September 2017). The main director of the film, Jure Breceljnik (41), died unexpectedly in 2015, while making this movie.

PORTOROŽ: Sly Foxes / Stekle lisice directed by Boris Jurjašević will be screened in the competition of the 20th Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož (12-16 September 2017). The film stars the well-known film and theatre actor Jure Ivanušič.

PORTOROŽ: Maja Pavlin’s documentary Charlatan Magnifique / Charlatan Magnifique will be screened in the competition of the 20th Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož (12-16 September 2017). The film tells the story of Magnifico, one of Slovenia’s most internationally renowned musicians, who has also appeared as an actor in a few films.