Kino

The MENT music festival, which focuses on new progressive discoveries in the region and beyond and is accompanied by an extensive networking and music industry conference, gets under way in Ljubljana on 29 March. Both segments of the three day-event will put the Baltic region in the foreground.

In the last decade, Kino Šiška has evolved into a key cultural institution and venue for contemporary music concerts, while its programme also includes visual and performing arts events.

The centre hosts the international contemporary dance festival CoFestival, the Ment festival of contemporary alternative music, and high school music band competition Špil Liga.

The Sloga Cinema gained notoriety in the 1980s through the screening of erotic films until its rebirth as Kino Dvor in the 1990s. When the city's cinemas began to close down at the end of the millennium, the then Kino Dvor closed as well. It was rebuilt and opened as an art cinema in 2003 under the leadership of Silvan Furlan, Director of Slovenska kinoteka (Slovenian Cinematheque).

Organized by German Films and the three Goethe-Instituts in Turkey, ?Kino 2015? brings the latest examples from new German cinema to Turkey. From feature films to documentaries, children?s films and shorts, ?Kino 2015?