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Ljubljana LGBT Film Festival

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The Ljubljana LGBT Film Festival is an annual international LGBT film festival held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is the oldest film festival of its sort in Europe and also the oldest international film festival in Slovenia. It showcases LGBT-themed films, i.e. films with nonheterosexual and non-cisgender topics or motifs.[1]

The festival was launched in 1984 in the capital of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, one of the six republics forming the country of Yugoslavia.

Screenings take place around 1 December – World AIDS Day, and the festival takes about a week.

History

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See also: LGBT history in Yugoslavia

When Slovenia was still part of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Ljubljana's Student Cultural Centre (ŠKUC) founded its gay section, called Magnus. The section organized the first edition of the festival as part of a wider festival on gay culture. It took place at several locations around Ljubljana: the ŠKUC Gallery, KinoŠkuc, The Ljubljana Faculty of Arts and Disko FV.[2]

From then on, the festival has been held annually, with the exception of the year 1987. The fourth edition of the festival was, namely, cancelled after pressures from the state authorities due to an alleged fear of the AIDS epidemic.[3]

The festival got limited financial resources from state and city authorities for years, so not all screenings in the history of the festival were translated into the Slovenian language. In 1996 the Slovenian Ministry of Culture banned screenings without translation into the Slovenian language, so the films of the 12th edition were translated simultaneously.[4]

Since 1994, the main festival location has been either the Kinodvor (in years 2004 to 2008) or the Slovenska kinoteka (Slovenian Cinematheque). Since 2004, the Ljubljana LGBT Film Festival has had at least one screening location outside Ljubljana.

Since 2013, the best films of the festival are awarded prizes by the jury and by the audience. As dragon is the symbol of Ljubljana, the name of the Ljubljana LGBT Film Festival award is the Pink Dragon.

In 2018, the festival was mainly supported by the Slovenian Film Centre for the first time in its history.[5]

The 2020 edition of the festival was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and could not include festival guests.

The start of the 2023 edition of the festival was marked by an incident in Ljubljana, as a group of young people tore down a rainbow flag from above the entrance of the Kinodvor cinema and set it on fire. The attack has been condemned by several groups, as well as by the president of the state, the prime minister and the culture minister.[6]

In recent years, the festival attracted several well-known Slovenian and foreign filmmakers, who participated in festival talks and round tables. Among them were Ljerka Belak, Sibylle Brunner, Diego del Rio, Marcel Gisler, Barbara Hammer, Venci Kostov, Fan Popo and Maja Weiss.[7][8][9]

Awards

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2023

  • Pink Dragon Jury Award: Spain Bulgaria Liuben (Venci Kostov)
  • Pink Dragon Audience Award: Mexico All the Silence (Todo el silencio) (Diego del Rio)
  • Pink Dragon Short Slovenian Film Award: Slovenia A Worldly Woman of Indomitable Spirit (Alma, neuklonljiva ženska) (Huiqin Wang, Andrej Kamnik)

2022[10]

2021[11]

2020[12]

2019[13]

2018[14]

2017[15]

2016[16]

2015[17]

2014[18]

  • Pink Dragon Jury Award: Netherlands Matterhorn (Diederik Ebbinge)
  • Pink Dragon Audience Award: Brazil The Way He Looks (Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho) (Daniel Ribeiro)
  • Pink Dragon Short Slovenian Film Award: Slovenia God's Mistake (Božja napaka) (Eva Matarranz, Anna Savchenko)

2013[19]

References

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  1. ^ "LGBT Film Festival". LGBT Film Festival. Društvo ŠKUC. Archived from the original on 25 November 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  2. ^ Velikonja, Nataša. "20 festivalskih let". Ljudmila.org. Društvo Škuc. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  3. ^ Velikonja, Nataša. "20 festivalskih let". Ljudmila.org. Društvo Škuc. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  4. ^ Velikonja, Nataša. "20 festivalskih let". Ljudmila.org. Društvo Škuc. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  5. ^ Ronkali, Romana (23 November 2018). "34. Festival LGBT filma bo naslednji teden v polnem zagonu". narobe.si. DIC Legebitra. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  6. ^ "Rainbow flag at LGBT Film Festival venue torn down and set on fire". Slovenska tiskovna agencija. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  7. ^ Jelesijević, Nenad. "Festival LGBT filma: jutri je nova priložnost". MMC RTV SLO. RTV SLO. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  8. ^ "28. festival lezbičnega in gejevskega filma". 28. festival lezbičnega in gejevskega filma. Društvo ŠKUC. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  9. ^ A. J. "Posledice odpirajo najstarejši evropski festival LGBT-filma - ljubljanski". MMC RTV SLO. RTV SLO. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  10. ^ M. K. "Nagrade rožnati zmaj podeljene". FGLF. Drustvo SKUC. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  11. ^ M. K. "Rožnati zmaj za južnokorejsko zgodbo o odraščanju". MMC RTV Slovenija. RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  12. ^ M. K. "Dobrodošli v Čečeniji najboljši film festivala LGBT filma". Dnevnik.si. Dnevnik.si. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  13. ^ M. K. "Rožnata zmaja filmoma Nož v srce in Portret mladenke v ognju". MMC RTV Slovenija. RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  14. ^ M. K. "Rožnata zmaja filmoma Hard Paint in Freak Show". MMC RTV Slovenija. RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  15. ^ M. K. "Rožnati zmaj filmu 120 utripov na minuto, med kratkimi najboljši Po gladini". MMC RTV Slovenija. RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  16. ^ M. K. "Rožnati zmaj francoskemu filmu Théo in Hugo v istem čolnu". MMC RTV Slovenija. RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  17. ^ Gračanin, Eva (7 December 2015). "Zaključil se je 31. Festival LGBT filma". Narobe. DIC Legebitra. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  18. ^ M. K. "Rožnati zmaj mojstrski pripovedi o potlačenih željah in zaprti družbi". MMC RTV Slovenija. RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  19. ^ Gračanin, Eva (3 December 2013). "Končal se je 29. FGLF – Drugi rožnati zmaj filmu Rosie". Narobe. DIC Legebitra. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
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