Slovenia's choir Carmen Manet has won the inaugural Eurovision Choir of the Year competition. Held in Riga, Latvia on Saturday, the contest saw nine choirs from nine countries members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

As part of its tour of Hungary, Serbia and Croatia, the World Youth Choir will make stops in Slovenia's Koper and Ljubljana on Friday and Sunday, respectively, to promote with its concerts reconciliation between different ethnic groups and religions.

Playing Men, the latest documentary by Matjaž Ivanišin, has been honoured at the prestigious FID Marseille film festival with the Georges de Beauregard award. The award is handed out by the Video de poche post-production company, which will produce a digital cinema package copy of the film.

Družina (The Family), a documentary by Rok Biček, whose 2013 feature debut Razredni sovražnik (Class Enemy) was celebrated at some of the world's top festivals, will premiere at the 70th Locarno Film Festival, which gets under way on 2 August.

An exhibition providing insight in the life and work of Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein, a Ljubljana-born ambassador of science, culture and art, who lived in China for 36 years after arriving there via a sea route of the Silk Road, will open in Ljubljana on Tuesday evening.

Evolving from a YouTube series, the low-budget comedy satire Pr'Hostar has become the biggest ever hit in independent Slovenia, attracting 209,859 cinemagoers in less than eight months since its release.

Sculptures and paintings that used to adorn the premises of apparel maker Mura have now made their way from the bankrupt former giant to the parks and galleries of the factory's home town of Murska Sobota (NE).