Ljubljana’s will be hosting a premiere byJanez Lapajne, Who’s Afraid of the Black Man? (Kdo se boji črnega moža?). The Slovenian director recently received his fifth international award in Florida. The cinema will moreover be screening a projection ofKarpopotnik, by another Slovenian screenwriter and director, Matjaž Ivanišin.

Both films which are being screened as part of,The Year of Cinema, are considered to compliment Slovenia’s film. Lapajne’s film is said to bow down to Valley of Peace (Dolina miru, 1956). Ivanišin’s creation introducesKarpo Godina, an acclaimed Slovenian film director.

Lapajne set his story, starring Tilen Lapajne, Wayne T. Carr, Klaus B. Wolf in Michael Kranz, in the year 1944, into an undefined place in the occupied Central Europe.

Karpopotnik follows the story of the young Godina traveling Vojvodina (Serbia).