This year's Grossmann Festival of Fantasy Film (and wine) has promised to screen the premiere of the "first real Slovenian horror film" and a visit by Udo Kier, a film legend from Germany.

The Grossman Festival, a traditional summer event that brings life to the town of Ljutomer every July, will take place from 14th to 18th July this year, surpassing last year's rather poor harvest with 30 feature, full-length films from 24 countries, which is a third more than the average. The programme also includes eight feature documentaries, nine music documentaries, and 28 short films.

Interestingly, the annual film parade of ghosts, murderers and psychopaths will start with a film that does not primarily fit into the fantasy genre but is no less bloody: the opening feature is the Croatian war action film Number 55, which was already screened at the Liffe Festival in Ljubljana; its film director, Kristijan Milić, is well known to Ljubljana's audience.

Ana Jurc, MMC; translated by K. Z.