Since 2010, Slovenian Philanthropy has been marking World Refugee Day (20 June) in Slovenia with the Migrant Film Festival, which will be organised for the 15th time in 2024.
Each year, the organisers aim to offer a selection of insightful and provocative films that bring current issues related to migration, asylum and refugees to the attention of local audiences.
Each year, we also organise a rich side-festival programme with various workshops and talks with the filmmakers.
We have now seen more than 340 films at 14 Migrant Film Festivals and remain one of the few festivals on the subject on a global scale.
We also consider it important to bring the themes addressed by our festival as close as possible to the local population.
For several years now, we have been raising the issue of migration and putting it into context in different parts of Slovenia – in addition to Ljubljana, the FMF has been on the road in more than 10 different places.
By showing film stories, we want to remind people that when we talk about migration, we are talking about people and their stories, offering a different perspective on those who remain behind border fences, in inhumane conditions or dying in the waves.
Knowledge is the path to understanding, and the festival is about opening the way to understanding.
