NEWS

15.05.2013

ZOOM AUSTRIA in Skopje (MK) in now over. Thanks to all participating Austrian filmakers as well as to Macedonian audiences who joined the screenings and discussions during the presentation at cultural house Menada at Čaršija in Skopje.

 

 

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14.04.2013

LISFF2013 is moving to Skopje (Macedonia) and will be in charge of ZOOM AUSTRIA short film day on the 12th of May 2013. The event will introduce young Austrian cinema to Macedonian audiences at cultural house Menada at Čaršija in the centre of Skopje. Official programming is now available here.

04.04.2013

Festivals' main film happening and presentation in Ljubljana is now over.  Touring retrospectives of LISFF2013 in Europe are under construction, more info will be available soon...

15.03.2013

The 5^th edition of LISFF transnational short film festival will present 82 short films of all styles coming from 27 different countries. All films will be screened digitally in original languages with English subtitles. Entrance to the screenings is free. The festival will traditionally be hosted by Klub Gromka www.klubgromka.org on Metelkova street in the centre of Ljubljana (SLO) during 3 festival days between the 1^st and 3^rd of April 2013.

Official programming is now available here.

Different screening blocks will be projected each day during the festival from 16_00 until 24_00 in Klub Gromka.

Information on all additional transnational educational screenings and presentations of LISFF2013 in other European cities and in the region will be continuosly available on our website in coming months. LISFF2013 transnational screenings are at the moment under construction planned to take place for example in Skopje (Macedonia), Graz (Austria), Oslo (Norway)...

21.02.2013

Call for entries to LISFF2013 is now closed. Thanks to all film directors who have found their way for the pre – selection round of our transnational short film festival in Ljubljana. More than 150 short films of different styles and lengths from 30 different countries have been submitted to the festival this year. Official programming is at the moment under construction and final selection will be released on the 15th of March 2013.

LISFF2013 will traditionally take place in Klub Gromka at Metelkova Art Zone in the centre of Ljubljana during three festival days between the 1st – 3rd of April 2013. Additional transnational educational retrospective screenings of LISFF2013 are also planned to take place throughout the year in other European cities. Detailed information is coming soon...

03.01.2013

Call for short film entries of all styles and genres to the 5th edition of transnational short film festival LISFF2013 in Ljubljana is open until the 15th of February 2013. Entry form is available here.

02.01.2013

Last stop for LISFF2012 transnational retrospective will be Graz (AUT) as a part of Graz Short Film Night 2013 which is going to take place on the 7th of February 2013 at Filmzentrum im Rechbauerkino. Entrance to the screenings is free.

05.10.2012

LISFF2012 goes now Oslo (NOR) and connects with OSLO SHORT CUTS 2012. Transnational retrospective screenings of LISFF in Oslo will take place between the 18th – 19th of November 2012 at Cinemateket. Official programming and screening schedule is now available here.

27.09.2012

LISFF moves now to Graz (AUT) with its BalkanFilmBazaar selection from LISFF2012. Educational festivals' presentation will take place on the 5th of November 2012 at art cinema Filmzentrum im Rechbauerkino located in the centre of Graz. All screenings are free of charge and the official programming for Balkan retrospective in Graz is now available here.

 

12.03.2012

First international LISFF retrospective this year goes now Oslo (NOR). BalkanFilmBazaar selection from LISFF2012 will be presented to wide Oslo audiences on Monday the 19th of March 2012 in CINEMATEKET http://www.nfi.no/ located on the Dronningens Gate 16 in the centre of Oslo. All screenings are free of charge. Detailed programming for Oslo retrospective is now available here.

08.03.2012

LISFF2012 in Ljubljana (SLO) had been successfully presented to Ljubljana audiences this week. Big thanks goes to all visiting audiences of the festival and all participating film directors who alltogether contibuted to the colorful atmosphere of our independent short film festival in Klub Gromka. Festivals' touring retrospectives in Europe are now under construction, more info will be available soon...

17.02.2012

LISFF2012 will present final selection of 100 short films (fiction, animation, documentary, experiment, dance, musical etc.) from 40 different countries in Klub Gromka www.klubgromka.org on Metelkova in the centre of Ljubljana (SLO) during 3 festival days between the 5^th and 7^th of March 2012.

Official programming is now available here.

All short films will be screened in digital format in original languages with English subtitles.

Entrance to all screenings is free. Different screening blocks will be projected each day during the festival from 16_00 until 24_00 in Klub Gromka.

Information on all additional educational screenings and presentations of LISFF2012 in other European cities and in the region will be continuosly available on our website in coming months. International educational presentations and retrospectives of LISFF (the best of LISFF2012 and BALKAN FILM BAZAAR) are at the moment under construction planned to take place in Oslo (NOR), Vienna (AUT) and in Graz (AUT). More info coming soon...

 

16.01.2012

Call for short film entries is now closed. Thanks to all film directors who have submitted their creative short film (s) to LISFF2012.

We have received colorful variety of over 100 short films from all over the world to the 4th edition of LISFF which is about to take place between the 5th and 7th of March 2012 in Klub Gromka in Ljubljana. Submitted short film entries have arrived from over 30 different countries ranging from Finland, Germany, Portugal, Ukraine, Slovenia, Bosnia&Herzegovina, Turkey, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan to Australia, Namibia, Zambia, Cuba, Canada etc.

Official selection and detailed programming will be released after the 20th of February 2012.

03.10.2011

Call for short film entries of all styles and genres to LISFF2012 is now open until the 15th of January 2012. Entry form is available here.

24.4.2011

Next stop of LISFF2011 on tour will be Graz (AUT). Festivals' retrospective will be part of GRAZ SHORT FILM NIGHT 2011 which is going to take place on the 25th of May 2011 in the art centre FORUM STADTPARK (Stadtpark 1) located in the centre of Graz. Special focus of this film event is given to young Swiss cinema.

Official programming of this international short film happening in Graz (AUT) is now available here.

17.03.2011

We are glad to announce that LISFF2011 goes north also this year and will be organizing educational and cultural screenings of selected short films also in Helsinki (FIN) and Oslo (NOR) in April 2011.

LISFF2011 will be a part of HELSINKI SHORT CUTS 2011 film festival in Finland with the presenations of its  BALKAN FILM BAZAAR selection as well as international selection. The screenings will be organized in Kino Engel in Helsinki between the 9th and 10th of April 2011.

Additional LISFF2011 screenings will take place also during BALKAN FILM BAZAAR in Oslo on the 12th of April 2011 and OSLO SHORT FILM NIGHT on the 13th of April 2011. Both educational and cultural films screenings will be organized in Cinema Neuf in Oslo.

Entrance to all educational screenings and retrospectives of LISFF2011 on tour in Helsinki (FIN) and Oslo (NOR) are free. Both festivals' presentations in Finland and Norway are aiming to introduce Balkan and international short filmakers to wide European audiences.

4.03.2011


LISFF2011 will present final selection of 85 short films (fiction, animation, documentary, experiment) from 27 different countries in Klub Gromka on Metelkova in Ljubljana during 3 festival days between the 14^th and – 16^th of March 2011. Official program is now available here.

All short films will be screened in digital format with English subtitles.

Info about accompanying event "Things, we do on Sundays" is available here.

Entrance to all screenings is free.

15.02.2011


Call for entries to LISFF2011 is now closed.

Alltogether 130 short films from 27 different countries ranging from Finland, Slovakia, Russia, Spain, Slovenia, Turkey, Iran, Armenia to USA have been submitted to the festival this year. Official selection will be released in the end of February. Festivals' programming structure will consist of different sections: WORLDS (international selection), ZOOM (focus on Austria and Finland) and BALKAN FILM BAZAAR (regional selection). Main festival screenings will be organized between the 14th – 16th of March in Klub Gromka on Metelkova.

Additional educational and multicultural presentations of LISFF2011 are planned to take place also in Helsinki (FIN), Oslo (NOR) and Graz (AUT) in coming months. Detailed information about all screenings will follow in coming weeks. All festival screenings are fee of charge.

LJUBLJANA INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL represents a living platform for presentations of creative short films in Ljubljana and a meeting point between organizers, audiences and film directors. The festival is organizing presentations and screenings of local, regional and international short film productions of all genres (fiction, documentary, experiment, animation, other) with educational and cultural values to wide Slovenian and European audiences and is of non – commercial and social character. All activities of LISFF are aiming to give a chance to young and creative filmakers from Slovenia, Balkan region and all around the world to present their creative short films to new audiences.

LISFF_2010_ON TOUR

After two LISFF2010 retrospectives in Oslo (april_2010) and in Vienna (may_2010) the festival is closing its 2010 European educational tour in February 2011 with the Balkan short film selection presentations in Graz (AUT). The screenings in Graz will take place between the 7th and 8th of February 2011 in art cinema Filmzentrum im Rechbauerkino and detailed festivals' retrospective programming is available here.