The Slovenian art cinema network will stream a curated programme of films online from today, starting with The Assistant to mark International Women's Day. New films will be available on Thursday evenings, whereas Saturday afternoons will be reserved for younger audiences.

Film director Ema Kugler was honoured at the American Filmatic Arts Awards (AFAA) festival of independent film in New York. Her Man with Shadow was declared the best feature film of 2020 in what is the 15th award for the film.

A major exhibition of contemporary Slovenian design dubbed the Future of Living will open at the DesignAustria gallery in Vienna on Friday in what will be one of the biggest promotional events of Slovenia's upcoming presidency of the Council of the EU.

The 22nd international feminist and queer festival Red Dawns will open on Friday with an exhibition of posters from Polish women's strike entitled To jest wojna. All events will be held online.

Prime Minister Janez Janša compared in a Tweet the role of TV broadcaster affiliated with his SDS party, Nova24TV, with the emergence of Nova Revija journal at the start of Slovenia's democratisation, in the 1980s. Three of Nova Revija's editors rejected such a comparison as "false and manipulative".

Women authors and stories about women will be in the focus of the first feminist film festival in Slovenia, which opens today. The festival brings a number of films on the FeFi's website free of charge until 10 March as well as online debates with the festival's organisers and filmmakers between 6 and 8 March.

Church music, evergreen tunes and anthems can be heard in the centre of the northern town of Kranj, coming from the carillon or so-called Glockenspiel in the belfry of the local church in what is the first such tourist attraction in the country.