INTERNATIONAL PARTNER

This year, we enjoy a very special international partnership with the cross-border film festival Tribute to a Vision in Nova Gorica, a Slovenian city on the border with Italy and which will hold the title of European Capital of Culture in 2025. As part of the partnership, Tribute to a Vision representatives will be present at Ceau, Cinema!, for the festival, but also to see how Timisoara has transformed itself following the title of European Capital of Culture in 2023. Also, the Ceau, Cinema! will travel in the autumn to Tribute to a Vision, as part of the exchange of experience.

“For us, a partnership with Ceau, Cinema! is important because they, like us, are a festival on the border, representing a multicultural reality. We recognize their genuine commitment to promoting film culture and engaging with the audience.

We are excited about the opportunity to gain insights into the organization of the European Capital of Culture through their experiences. We are also keen to learn about the process after the title has ended, and their best practices for continuing the momentum.

Moreover, we are eager to bring Romanian films to our festival and introduce them to our audience, as they rarely make it to our big screens.”

Mateja Zorn, director of the Cross-border film festival Poklon viziji

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“Film and audio-visual culture are an excellent medium for observing and understanding society and its changes over time, for bringing together different cultures, those from the immediate vicinity as well as those from distant territories. This is the belief that guided Darko Bratina, founder of Kinoatelje, sociologist, film critic and, at the end of his career, senator of the Republic of Italy. The Tribute to Vision festival and the Darko Bratina award, which we have been awarding for 25 years, were formed from these premises.

Taking place in the inter-regional space between Slovenia and Italy, we are connecting audiences and film institutions in seven different cities, the centres of the festival being Gorizia and Nova Gorica, but also travelling to Trieste, Izola, San Pietro al Natisone, Udine and Ljubljana. Currently, an upgrade of the festival is taking place in the spirit of expanding the program in conjunction with the creation of the European Capital of Culture GO! 2025.

The basic direction of the festival is dedicated to cooperating with many partners from Slovenia and Italy in order to promote and develop an open, challenging and innovative cross-border film landscape, where the creator and the viewer meet in direct dialogue. We invite visionaries, critical thinkers and creatives who are not afraid of experimentation and see the medium of film as an excellent tool for understanding society. Working with young generations is also important to us, which is why we have developed the platform First Crossings for discovering new film languages within the short film form, with which we address and involve young audiences as well”.

Tribute to a Vision team