The common thread will be drawn on 28 November at Kinodvor by the festival’s opening film From Afar (Desde allá) directed by Lorenzo Vigas, the winner of the Golden Lion for Best Film at this year’s Venice Film Festival. As usual the main programme will be screened at Slovenska kinoteka, while the accompanying programme will take place at Café Kolaž and Metelkova. Repeats will also be shown in a few other Slovenian cities, i.e. Ptuj, Celje, Maribor, Koper, which will be joined by a new place, a town called Bistrica ob Sotli.

Films from “Third World”, which is beginning to explore LGBT themes
According to Brane Mozetič, one of the festival’s “film collectors”, the aim of the festival is bring non-European and non-American films to the festival. Therefore, a number of films from the so-called “Third World” have been selected this year, as they are only yet beginning to explore the topic of LGBT through film.

In addition to the opening Venezuelan film From Afar, the festival’s central thread – depicting elderly gays and lesbians, their troubles, relationship with the young, their attitude towards death and life in general – will be woven further through films such as Sand Dollars (Dollares de Arena) from the Dominican republic, who has won several awards and is signed by multiple authors; a Swiss film called Vanity (La vanité) directed by Lionel Baier; Aya Arcos by Maximilian Moll from Germany, and a Spanish-French documentary Open Windows (Las Ventanas Abiertas) by Michele Masse.