“Go Where the Film Takes You” was the motto of the first Silvan Cine School. As part of this Isola Cinema workshop “intended to cultivate thinking, talking and especially writing about film” we were taken aboard an enormous whaling ship in Matthew Barney’s film Drawing Restraint 9. IFC Films is now releasing a documentary about Barney’s artistic enterprise, titled Matthew Barney: No Restraint. IndieWire interviewed its director Alison Chernick.

The world’s first and largest co-production market, Rotterdam Film Festival’s CineMart, has recently announced its selection of forty-six independent film projects to be discussed in January 2007. Amongst the lucky directors of developing projects we can find many old guests of Isola Cinema (Pablo Trapero, Lav Diaz, Raya Martin) and certainly plenty of names that are yet to become our friends.
More info at http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/

The final count-down to the opening of the 3rd International Animation Film Festival (aka Animateka Festival) has begun. Director and programmer Igor Prassel has again packed his festival –that is running from December 12th until 16th in the Ljubljana art-house cinema Kinodvor– with the very best contemporary animation film can offer.
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On January 4th Otok is releasing Olivier Assayas’s Clean in the Slovene art house cinema network.
The film tells the story of Emily, the widow of a rock star killed by an overdose, who is trying to rebuild her life. When she gets out of prison where she was being held on drugs charges, Emily is determined to get her son back from her parents-in-law. “She discovers herself when she frees herself of everything that is imagined about her,” explains the director. “If there is one overriding idea for this film, it comes from the desire to show that change is possible, that one can become a new person, and that we are not forever chained to our past.” » read more

Yep, it’s true. There are still many known and unknown unknowns related to the next Isola Cinema film festival edition (lurking mainly for the festival crew that is!), but as of recently, the time of the festival is no more one of them! Isola Cinema 2007 will take place from May 31st - June 4th 2007! Ok, we said it, now it’s out in the open - so you have a lot of time, more than enough in our humble opinion, to reschedule everything you had planned and to come to Izola and enjoy yourselves on sooo many levels! See you all then!

With bitter sweetness we realize that our festival is over, we’ve done it again. For a while, this means a stop to our daily projections in Izola and nightly gatherings at the town’s lighthouse…We would like to thank all of you, who’ve been with us during these days. We have all especially enjoyed the company of our guests(on the pic). You can find a little bit of what went on in the Isola Cinema web gallery. See you on Isola Cinema 2007!