Ljubljana Documentary Film Festival

A diversified insight into contemporary world documentary film production, which is becoming increasingly more incisive and topical, deeply stirring the nucleus of major social and political issues and probing all walks of life.

Festival sections: Human Rights Films competitive section; Intimate Portrayals; Myths, Icons, Media; Topical and Socially Critical Documentaries; Tribute

The Best Human Rights Film Award is bestowed in association with Amnesty International Slovenia.

A word of introduction The Antipodes of Fiction  During last year’s Documentary Film Festival most television channels featured topical images from Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. We knew then that the next festival would abound in the images of the so-called Arab Spring. And our predictions turned out to be correct; we are not only showing a number of films from the region of Maghreb (puzzlingly, Libya has failed to create an articulated film documentary), but also works from the Near East, where some of the most dramatic events are taking place in Syria. Apart from films from Egypt (Tahrir 2011; Mafrouza) and Tunisia (No More Fear), we are also hosting documentaries from Lebanon (Marcedes) and Iran (This Is not a Film), where director Jafar Panahi, still being held prisoner in his flat, made “a film that was not a film”, thereby excellently expressing an artist’s pain of losing human as well as creative rights. More>