Sara Kern's debut feature Moja Vesna (My Vesna) will have its world premiere at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival, where it will vie for the Crystal Bear in the Generation Kplus competition. The film is the first-ever Slovenian-Australian co-production.

The opposition Social Democrats (SD) have urged Culture Minister Vasko Simoniti to immediately resign after it has become clear that several prominent independent culture producers or artists were left without funds as part of a 2022-2025 call for applications worth EUR 3.8 million.

Film and theatre actor Timon Šturbej has been chosen as one of the ten talented European actors, as this year's European Shooting Stars were declared on Thursday to be promoted at the Berlinale in February. He is the sixth Slovenian actor or actress to have been awarded the title, which is bestowed by the European Film Promotion (EFP).

Serbia's Novi Sad is among the three cities that received the title of European Capital of Culture for 2022. The ECC programme in the Serbian city starts on Wednesday night, when Serbia also celebrates New Year's Eve, with the opening ceremony directed by Slovenian theatre director Dragan Živadinov.

The municipality of Ljubljana has announced a public call for the reconstruction of the Plečnik Auditorium, the former open-air amphitheatre in a clearing behind Tivoli Mansion in Ljubljana's Tivoli Park. It was designed by architect Jože Plečnik (1872-1957) and constructed in 1933, but left to decay after the Second World War.

Zdenka Badovinac, the former long-serving director of Moderna Galerija, the Ljubljana Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, has won the open call to head the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU).

Fiamme Nere, the Italian translation of the Slovenian novel Črni obroč (Black Ring) by Trieste-based writer and poet Marijo Čuk, has been nominated among the 11 finalists for the Italian national literary prize named after Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov.