Industry programme

PROFeKK in lockstep with filmmakers’ dreams

If we begin the eleventh edition of the FeKK – Ljubljana Short Film Festival with a call to keep dreams alive, we go even farther in our programming for current and future filmmaking professionals. We provide practical tools that support dreams, warn about traps lurking on professional paths, respond to the world’s threatening chaos, confront the dark side of the surrounding nightmares, and most importantly, encourage real, tangible personal connections among filmmakers in these surreal times.

The PROFeKK professional programme is relocating to the new and refurbished Vodnik Homestead in Šiška, where it will offer two days of open activities centred on certain themes. The first day, titled Dream Big, but Plan Smart, will provide participants with practical advice on how to recognise false festivals, design an effective festival strategy and adhere to ethical festival guidelines. Following the presentations of guest festivals from several countries, there will also be an opportunity for networking between guests and audience members.

A somewhat more theoretical second day, entitled Dreams and Nightmares, will centre its first roundtable on the activist relationship between film and social consciousness, especially in view of the global crisis in Gaza and broader. This will be followed by a discussion about David Lynch and this year’s guest, Momoko Seto, and how their work intersects through surreal content and images.

All events will feature moderated conversations with filmmakers followed by audience discussions.

Throughout the festival, there will be longer closed workshops that require pre-registration. Besides the film criticism workshops by the European Network of Film Discourse The End and #worthseeing, there will also be two in-depth practical workshops: Short Scene and Documentary Workshop, as well as this year’s novelty, the Intimacy Coordination Workshop.

Ana Cerar