17. the iteration of the festival of migrant film organized by Slovenian philanthropy is coming to Logatec! Slovenian philanthropy since 2010 World Refugee Day (20. June) marks the festival of migrant film in Slovenia, and from 2024 onwards, the festival takes place in September. The main part of the festival will take place in Ljubljana and Maribor between 21. and 25. in September at venues such as Kinodvor, ground floor, AGRFT and GT22, the festival will also take special screenings across Slovenia in the weeks that follow.
In Logatec, the House of fruit society will organize two events as part of the migrant Film Festival. First we will be in the Great Hall of the National House on Tuesday 29. 9. at 19. uri could watch the wonderful film fishing boats from Ka Algar (Los CA Alacucos de Ka Algar) by Alaclvara Hern Alacndez Blance, in which Thimbo struggles with his own identity and sense of (not)belonging as he returns after 15 years to his native Senegalese fishing village from Spain, where he ventured for bread. He faces feelings of nostalgia and uprooting, longing and resentment, and finally guilt, as he has become a great role model for the young people of his village and an incentive to embark on a dangerous journey to Europe by sea.
The second film will draw unexpected connections between youth brigades, which many people remember from The Times of Yugoslavia, and refugee routes across the Balkans to the promised future. The film Nike author sunchane stripes describes the construction of the Shamac-Sarajevo railway in seven months of 1974, in which many female brigadiers from Italy, Britain, Greece, France, Denmark, Sweden and even Palestine took part.
The second event will take place at the Logatec fruit House on Wednesday, 30. 9., when we will host an alliance of locals from Pivka and immigrants from Nepal who stay in Pivka and are employees of the local company. They will show how they made their first contact and how a group of immigrants lives in and with the local community. We will see an example of good practice in four short films, and there will also be time for discussion and exchange of experiences.
We warmly invite everyone interested in the stories and experiences of people from other and different backgrounds to share the same space and time with them.
17. iteracija Festivala migrantskega filma v organizaciji Slovenske filantropije prihaja v Logatec! Slovenska filantropija od leta 2010 svetovni dan beguncev (20. junij) v Sloveniji obeležuje s Festivalom migrantskega filma, od leta 2024 naprej pa se festival odvija septembra. Glavnina festivala bo potekala v Ljubljani in Mariboru med 21. in 25. septembrom na prizoriščih kot so Kinodvor, Pritličje, AGRFT ter GT22, posebne projekcije pa bo festival ponesel tudi po Sloveniji v tednih, ki sledijo.
V Logatcu bo Hiša Sadeži družbe organizirala kar dva dogodka v sklopu Festivala migrantskega filma. Najprej si bomo v veliki dvorani Narodnega doma v torek 29. 9. ob 19. uri lahko ogledali čudovit film Ribiški čolni iz Kayarja (Los Cayucos de Kayar) avtorja Álvara Hernández Blance, v katerem se Thimbo spopada z lastno identiteto in občutkom (ne)pripadanja, ko se po 15 letih vrne v rodno senegalsko ribiško vas iz Španije, kamor se je podal za kruhom. Sooča se z občutki nostalgije in izkoreninjenosti, hrepenenja in zamere, končno pa tudi krivde, saj je mladim iz svoje vasi postal velik vzor in vzpodbuda, da se podajo na nevarno pot v Evropo po morju.
Drugi film bo vlekel nepričakovane povezave med mladinskimi brigadami, ki se jih marsikdo spominja iz časov Jugoslavije, in begunskimi potmi čez Balkan v obljubljeno prihodnost. Film Nike Autor Sunčane pruge po najdenih fotografijah opisuje gradnjo železnice Šamac-Sarajevo zgrajene v sedmih mesecih leta 1974, pri kateri so sodelovali številni brigadirke in brigadirji iz Italije, Britanije, Grčije, Francije, Danske, Švedske in celo Palestine.
Drugi dogodek se bo odvijal v Hiši Sadeži družbe Logatec v sredo, 30. 9., ko bomo gostili navezo domačinov iz Pivke in priseljencev iz Nepala, ki bivajo v Pivki in so zaposleni v tamkajšnjem podjetju. Prikazali bodo, kako so vzpostavili prvi stik in kako skupina priseljencev biva v in z lokalno skupnostjo. Primer dobre prakse bomo videli v štirih kratkih filmih, čas pa bo tudi za debato in izmenjavo izkušenj.
Na oba dogodka toplo vabimo vse, ki jih zanimajo zgodbe in izkušnje ljudi iz drugih in drugačnih okolij, da z njimi delijo isti prostor in čas.