Between 29. September and 4. in October 2026, the cross-border Film Festival tribute to vision / Omaggio a una visione returns to the conurbations of Nova Gorica and Gorizia, where borders are almost imperceptible today, and the intertwining of cultures remains something everyday, alive and strongly present.
For more than twenty-five years, the Festival has been organizing cinemas , cinemas, markets and various venues on both sides of the Slovenian-Italian border, turning it into a place of meetings : between filmmakers and audiences, between languages, memories and different worldviews. By moving between cities and communities, it creates an open space for dialogue, collaboration and exchange between artists, cultural institutions, thinkers and spectators.
Again this year , the Festival brings to the fore authors with a distinct vision, critical voices and creators who understand the film as a space of reflection, research and social imagination.
The programme will also be developed through several festival sections : the Darko Bratina award , dedicated to authors with a distinct social outlook; First Crossings , which is dedicated to young short film creators and new film languages; visionaries representing important and penetrating international authors; Cinemae Alce , which opens up a glimpse into the exploration of iconic Slovenian and Italian film heritages and collective filmmaking as a radical social work; an excursion that leads to a different film environment every year; and an extra program with installations , exhibitions , concerts and performances in collaboration with local artists and partners.
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The first insight into the 2026 edition is brought by the excursion section , which is turning north this year, to Finland . In cooperation with Tampere Film Festival , the largest short film festival in the Nordic countries, the tribute to the vision opens the space for contemporary Finnish Film creativity, while enriching cooperation with the International Children's and Youth Film Festival in Oulu .
As part of the Finnish focus , a special event will also be prepared Kino is our magnet 3, which will bring Finnish films and cultural views closer to children from both sides of the border. The partnership is further linked by the fact that Oulu is one of the European capitals of culture 2026 this year, continuing the dialogue between European capitals of culture after our experience of the GO project! 2025 .
The horizon already brings fresh programs and even more reasons for excitement, we will reveal them soon.
The main event of the festival, 2. in October 2026, the award ceremony will be 27. The Darko Bratina Awards, which has been awarded to filmmakers since 1999, whose oeuvre is distinguished by a pronounced author's poetics, sensitivity to social and historical context and openness to intercultural dialogue .
This year's recipient of the award is Romanian director of aromanian roots Ale 6thandra Gulea, an author who reveals in her films with extreme subtlety overlooked communities, invisible borders and those stories that can only really be seen when we give them an attentive look.
The festival will dedicate a retrospective of selected films and a master class to this year's winner , and the highlight of the event will be the award ceremony on Friday, 2. on Oct.
More about the winner here.
Med 29. septembrom in 4. oktobrom 2026 se čezmejni filmski festival Poklon viziji / Omaggio a una visione vrača v somestje Nove Gorice in Gorice, kjer so meje danes skoraj neopazne, preplet kultur pa ostaja nekaj vsakdanjega, živega in močno prisotnega.
Festival, ki ga že več kot petindvajset let organizira Kinoatelje , kina, trge in različna prizorišča na obeh straneh slovensko-italijanske meje spreminja v prostor srečevanj : med filmskimi ustvarjalci in občinstvom, med jeziki, spomini in različnimi pogledi na svet. S selitvijo med mesti in skupnostmi ustvarja odprt prostor za dialog, sodelovanje in izmenjavo med umetniki, kulturnimi ustanovami, misleci in gledalci.
Festival tudi letos v ospredje postavlja avtorje z izrazito vizijo , kritične glasove in ustvarjalce, ki film razumejo kot prostor razmisleka, raziskovanja in družbene domišljije.
Program se bo tudi tokrat razvil skozi več festivalskih sekcij : nagrado Darko Bratina , posvečeno avtorjem z izrazitim družbenim pogledom; First Crossings , ki je namenjena mladim ustvarjalcem kratkega filma in novim filmskim jezikom; Vizionarje , ki predstavljajo pomembne in prodorne mednarodne avtorje; Cinemaeye , ki odpira pogled v raziskovanje ikoničnih slovenskih in italijanskih filmskih dediščin ter kolektivnega filmskega ustvarjanja kot radikalnega družbenega dela; Ekskurzijo , ki vsako leto vodi v drugo filmsko okolje; ter Ekstra program z instalacijami, razstavami, koncerti in performansi v sodelovanju z lokalnimi umetniki in partnerji.
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Prvi vpogled v izdajo 2026 prinaša sekcija Ekskurzija , ki se letos obrača proti severu, na Finsko . V sodelovanju s Tampere Film Festival , največjim festivalom kratkega filma v nordijskih državah, Poklon viziji odpira prostor sodobni finski filmski ustvarjalnosti, hkrati pa bogati sodelovanje še z Mednarodnim otroškim in mladinskim filmskim festivalom v Ouluju .
V okviru finskega fokusa bo pripravljen tudi poseben dogodek Kino je naš magnet 3 , ki bo finske filme in kulturne poglede približal otrokom z obeh strani meje. Partnerstvo dodatno povezuje tudi dejstvo, da je Oulu letos ena izmed Evropskih prestolnic kulture 2026 , s čimer se nadaljuje dialog med evropskimi prestolnicami kulture po naši izkušnji projekta GO! 2025 .
Obzorje že prinaša sveže programe in še več razlogov za navdušenje, razkrijemo jih kmalu.
Osrednji dogodek festivala , 2. oktobra 2026, bo podelitev 27. Nagrade Darko Bratina , ki jo Kinoatelje od leta 1999 podeljuje filmskim ustvarjalcem , katerih opus odlikujejo izrazita avtorska poetika, občutljivost za družbeni in zgodovinski kontekst ter odprtost do medkulturnega dialoga .
Letošnja prejemnica nagrade je romunska režiserka aromanskih korenin Alexandra Gulea , avtorica, ki v svojih filmih z izjemno tankočutnostjo razkriva prezrte skupnosti, nevidne meje in tiste zgodbe, ki jih je mogoče zares uzreti šele, ko jim namenimo pozoren pogled.
Festival bo letošnji nagrajenki posvetil retrospektivo izbranih filmov in mojstrski tečaj , vrhunec dogajanja pa bo slavnostna podelitev nagrade v petek, 2. oktobra.
Več o nagrajenki tukaj.