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• Festival Office in Ljubljana: 00 386 1 431 80 08

e-mail addresses:

• visitors:
  [email protected]
• guests:
  [email protected]
• press:
  [email protected]

postal address:

• Zavod Otok,
  Metelkova 6,
  1000 Ljubljana,
  Slovenia,
  Europe

Otok, the Institution for the development of the film culture Ljubljana was established in the year 2003 by Vlado Ĺ kafar, a slovenian film-maker, founder of the slovenian art cinema network and programme director of the Slovenian Cinematheque for many years.

Two places that couldn't be more different, are gaining a new meaning through their devotion to non-commercial film. This is a beginning of a friendship, which is bound to sail in stormy weathers, since the established cultural politics speaks an entirely different language. As of the 1st of May, 2004, both communities are to exist in a society of common economic goals and values, a society rapidly moving away from parts of the world beyond the reach of modernization.

bus Departures from Ljubljana Airport to Ljubljana City

From Monday to Friday
5.00, 6.05, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12.00,
13.00, 14.00, 15.00, 16.00, 17.00, 18.00, 19.00, 20.00
Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays
7.00, 10.00, 12.00, 14.00, 16.00, 18.00, 20.00

The journey time is approximately 45 minutes. Tickets are purchased on the bus.
For information about ticket prices, please call: 090 4230.

Bus time-table Ljubljana - Izola

Departure from Ljubljana - Arrival to Izola

Izola is an ancient mediterranean town with a lively history. In 1820 thermal spring was discovered in Izola, leading to the town's earliest forms of tourism. Due to its coastal position, Izola and its Marina remain one of the centers of nautical tourism.

Born in 1945 in Calcutta. Grew up watching European art films. Graduated in English. Film debut as a teenager in the Three Daughters (1961) by Satyajit Ray. Went on to star in many mainstream melodramatic plays and films by Mirnal Sen and Tapan Sinh. Directorial debut with the English-language film 36 Chowringhee Lane. As director she deploys psychological realism familiar from Western art films but concentrates on female characters, often imbued with a strong sense of nostalgia.

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Born in 1921 in Calcutta into an illustrious family. He graduated from the Ballygunge Government School and studied Economics at Presidency College. He was India's first internationally recognized film-maker and, several years after his death, still remains the most well-known Indian director on the world stage. He was self-taught, his film education consisting largely of repeated viewings of film classics by de Sica, Fellini, John Ford, Orson Welles, and other eminent directors.

Mika Kaurismäki was born in September 1955 in Finland. After the high school he used to work as a painter of houses and apartments in a small town of Kuusankoski in the Southeastern part of Finland. He studied cinema in Munich, Germany (Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen) between 1977–1981 and made his diploma film The Liar in 1980 in Finland. His younger brother Aki Kaurismäki, then a student of journalism, played the main role and also co-wrote the screenplay.