The ““International Sportfilm FICTS Festival Slovenia” will be held for the third time in splendid location of Rogaška Slatina from June 19 – 22 organized by SKL in collaboration with the NOC Slovenia,

With the participation of directors, actors, athletes and sports lovers, the Festival – part of the “World FICTS Challenge” International Circuit – aims to explore the special relationship that links these two forms of cultural expression.

Vojko Korošec, the President and creator of the Festival has presented the Program during a Press Conference.

Short program:

  • Wednesday, June 19, there will be film screenings for school youth in the morning, followed by screenings of films in the cultural center and on the European platform. At 7 p.m., there will be a official opening with the premiere of a Slovenian film about a firefighter competition, followed by the awarding of festival awards for achievements in sports and film. The FICTS President Prof. Franco Ascani sent a video message for the Opening.
  • Thursday, June 20, there will be a whole day of film shows in the cultural center, on the European platform and evening shows in Hotel Sava and Atlantida, the World, European and Open Championships of I feel Slovenia will begin in the Corn Hall, which will last until Saturday evening, and GWRA (Gold Wing) motorcycle association festival
  • Friday, June 21, afternoon and evening film screenings and a light show by Gold Wing motorcyclists.
  • Saturday, June 22, film screenings in the cultural center, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., the mini-Olympics will be held under the auspices of the Olympic Committee.
    In the afternoon at 3:00 p.m., the Zumba marathon dance event will begin until 7:30 p.m., when the awards will be given to the winning films. At 20:00 the party will start with DJ Killy under the title Back in time.

The FICTS General Secretary Enzo Cappiello will join the Award Ceremony on June 22.

It has been 30 years since we launched the ŠKL project, and you have been connected with us all these years. A lot of events happened during this time.

More than 1,000 matches were played in various sports, approximately 850 TV shows were broadcast, and more than 270 hours of live TV broadcasts were realized.

Among the 350,000 young people who participated in the ŠKL project, there were today’s famous sportsmen, sportsmen, artists and also media personalities, whom the project helped them find their way in life.

Her’s just a few: Dragiša Drobnjak, Jaka Lakovič, Primož Brezec, Erazem Lorbek, Gašper Vidmar, Jure Močnik, Vladko Čančar, Alen Omić, Boštjan Nachbar, Beno Udrih, Jusuf Nurkić, Uroš Slokar, Anja Vilfan, Žana Jereb, Nika Barić , Eva Lisec, Domen Rozman, Matija Pleško, Tine Urnaut, Jan Oblak and more could be listed.

This year’s jubilee year will be marked on June 1 with the ŠKL grand final in the ŠKL between two fires project and the ŠKL Tee ball, which will be held in Lipica under the auspices of Kobilarna Lipica and will host more than 700 of the best competitors from Slovenian schools.

The event will start at 9:00 a.m. and end at 2:00 p.m. with the awarding of cups and medals and the performance of the Lipizzaner for all participants of the ŠKL final.

We also recorded our history on film, in the documentary ŠKL sport of thousands of faces, created by our director, former ŠKL member Toni Cahunek. The result of this film project was the acquisition of a FICTS license from Milan, which enables us to hold an international sports film festival in Slovenia.

On the anniversary of ŠKL, allow us to first of all thank you for your successful cooperation in the Škl project so far, and at the same time we look forward to working with you, this time in the field of the ISFF festival, also in the future.

This year’s festival events will be very varied and interesting. From the 620 submitted films, the committee selected 40, which will be screened at the festival and compete for awards.

These are films on various topics, from athletics to winter sports. Among the most resounding this year is certainly the film about the famous tennis player Nikola Pilić, which we will personally host in Rogaška Slatina.

For this occasion, his former protégé Novak Đoković prepared a pleasant surprise for him.

 

At the Opening Ceremony on June 19 in Ana’s palace, we will present awards to film and sports workers, among whom this year Nikola Pilić, for the promotion of international sports – tennis, Alen Kobilica, for the promotion of sports, Sara Isaković for outstanding achievements in swimming, Gorazd Kogoj for the development of golf in Slovenia, Adolf Urnaut for the development and promotion of sport – volleyball, Marjan Jemec for life’s work in sport, dr. Srečo Zakrajšek for the development of school sports and education in the field of multimedia, Franci Pliberšek for supporting sports, Jože Okoren for the development of disabled sports, Katja Koren for top achievements in sports.

The First International Meeting of the new European Association of Gold Wing Motorcyclists, and the first World and European Championship in Cornhole, as well as the Open Championship of Slovenia/ I fell Slovenia, in the aforementioned discipline, will also be held at the festival. In cooperation with OKS, there will be a mini Olympics on Saturday morning and a Zumba marathon dance event in the afternoon, organized by the tourist association Venus from Rogaška Slatina.