Open air cinema returns to Ljubljana Castle
Ljubljana, 3 July - The courtyard of Ljubljana Castle will transform into an open-air cinema in the second half of July. The annual event will feature several hits and five premieres between 13 July and 5 August.
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Film Under the Stars.
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Film Under the Stars will open with the Slovenian and French co-production Granny's Sexual Life (Babičino seksualno žvljenje). The animated short film won the European Film Award and the César for Best Animated Short.
It will be followed by Riders (Jezdeca) by Dominik Mencej, which won the Audience Award at the Festival of Slovenian Film.
The programme also includes the Italian film Nostalgia by Mario Martone, Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, a film about J. Robert Oppenheimer, often credited as "father of the atomic bomb".
Moreover, the winner of this year's Palme d'Or, Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d'une chute) by Justine Triet, will be screened on 27 July, and on 2 August Past Lives by Celine Song, which has received a lot of praise at this year's Sundance and Berlinale festivals.
The event will conclude on 5 August with one of the most anticipated films of the event, Asteroid City by American director Wes Anderson. His 2014 film Grand Budapest Hotel will be included in the event's programme as well, since it is the most-watched film in the Kinodvor cinema so far.
The screenings will take place every day at 9:30pm. Films will be screened in their original language with Slovenian subtitles, with non-English films also subtitled in English. Tickets went on sale on Friday.
In case of poor weather forecast, the screening will take place the next day at 9:00pm at Kinodvor. For premieres, two alternative screenings will be available at Kinodvor.