{"id":10353,"date":"2018-11-05T10:45:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T10:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/?p=10353"},"modified":"2018-11-05T10:45:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T10:45:56","slug":"ljubljanas-international-film-festival-liffe-taking-over-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/ljubljanas-international-film-festival-liffe-taking-over-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Ljubljana&#8217;s International Film Festival LIFFe Taking Over the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The \u00a029th Ljubljana International Film Festival \u2013 LIFFe, will be between 7 November and 18 November 2018 traditionally held also in the halls of Cankarjev dom \u2013 Cultural and Congress Centre Ljubljana.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every year, the Ljubljana International Film Festival, better known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liffe.si\/index.php\/en\/\">LIFFe<\/a>, adds vibrancy to the city\u2019s autumn cultural life by presenting the best and the latest in European and international film production. This year\u2019s programme was outlined by Festival Director Simon Popek, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/kongres-magazine.eu\/2018\/02\/ursula-cetinski-ratio-art-congresses-will-remain\/\">Ur\u0161ula Cetinski<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cd-cc.si\/en\">Cankarjev dom<\/a>\u00a0Director General, and partners.<\/p>\n<p>At the press conference in mid October, the CD Director Ur\u0161ula Cetinski stressed the festival\u2019s favourable attendance figures. Together with the growing number of screenings (from the initial 13 to almost 300 in 2017), the number of viewers ha salso been steadily increasing since 1990 \u2013 from 4,000 to 42,000.<\/p>\n<p>The 29th Liffee will delight film lovers with its rich and variegated programme, and address cinematic issues from different viewpoints in its varied accompanying programme. Festival sections include Perspectives, the official competitive section of young authors competing for the Kingfisher award; Avant-premieres, a selection of the world\u2019s finest films purchased for Slovenian distribution; Kings and Queens, films by notable and award-winning virtuosos of contemporary cinema; World Film Panorama, front-runners of five-continent festivals; Extravaganza, so-called late-night cinema of daring artists addressing idiosyncratic or sensual topics; Europe in Short, competitive programme of short film; and Kinobalon, a selection of films for children aged between 7 and 14.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cd-cc.si\/en\/congress-management\/Congress-and-event-management\">Cankarjev dom<\/a> \u2013 Cultural and Congress Centre Ljubljana will host the festival in two of its halls \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cd-cc.si\/en\/other\/halls\/linhart-hall\/\">Linhart Hall<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cd-cc.si\/en\/other\/halls\/kosovel-hall\/\">Kosovel Hall<\/a>, while the central festival venue will be Cankarjev dom\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cd-cc.si\/en\/other\/halls\/foyer-ii\">Foyer II,\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0featuring LIFFe\u2019s press centre, box office, socialising and entertainment premises, and guest chat room.<\/p>\n<p><em>CD Congress Centre<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00a029th Ljubljana International Film Festival \u2013 LIFFe, will be between 7 November and 18 November 2018 traditionally held also in the halls of Cankarjev dom \u2013 Cultural and Congress Centre Ljubljana. Every year, the Ljubljana International Film Festival, better known as LIFFe, adds vibrancy to the city\u2019s autumn cultural life by presenting the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-member-news"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10356,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10353\/revisions\/10356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}