EKO 8 / Film Screenings
EKO 8 / Film Screenings
Open-Air Cinema Minoriti, auditorium of the Maribor Puppet Theatre, Vojašniški trg 2a
Wednesday, 14 July 2021, 21:00-01:00
As part of the EKO 8 Triennial, we are proud to present two films, both screening in Maribor for the very first time. This night only will you be able to see the Slovenian-American documentary Greetings from the Free Forests (2018) and the Inuit-Canadian feature film One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk on the Maribor big screen.
The screening is part of the Open-Air Cinema Minoriti programme, which is devised in cooperation between the partners of the Society for the Development of Film Culture, the Maribor Puppet Theatre and Maribox.
Program:
21:00-22:40: Greetings from the free forests
Drifting through the densely forested landscape of southern Slovenia – Greetings from the Free Forests –, like a lifting fog, reveals a refuge of embedded historical memory. The film travels alongside the testimonies of local hunters, foresters, cavers, and foragers among others—orbiting around an absence left by radical struggle after it has come to fruition and since faded. The film was directed by the young American filmmaker Ian Soroka, who had studied the history of Slovenia and Slovenian film in depth during his two-year stay in the country. The film received the Vesna Award for Best Sound at the Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož.
22:50-01:00: One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk
Kapuivik, north Baffin Island, 1961. Noah Piugattuk's nomadic Inuit band live and hunt by dogteam, just as his ancestors did when he was born in 1900. When the white man known as Boss arrives in camp, what appears as a chance meeting soon opens up the prospect of momentous change. The film premiered in the Canadian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. The same year, it received the Best Canadian Film Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival. The film was produced by Isuma, an art collective and the first 75% Inuit-owned production house in Canada.
Tickets can be purchased online on the Maribox website and in person at the Maribox box office.
Before the screening, tickets can be purchased at the location of the open-air cinema, in the auditorium at Minoriti (Vojašniški trg 2a, Maribor). The box office is open 1 hour before the start of the film.
The program will be implemented in accordance with NIJZ guidelines. More: letnikinominoriti.lg-mb.si
