LUKSUZ FILM FESTIVAL

23RD LUKSUZ FILM FESTIVAL
JANUARY 23-25, 2026
KRŠKO, SLOVENIA

The Luksuz Film Festival returns for its 23rd edition, continuing its mission to support
independent filmmaking from around the world. Founded in 2003 by Luksuz Produkcija, the festival has become a unique platform for emerging authors and grassroots voices that challenge dominant narratives.

Taking place in Krško, a small town in eastern Slovenia, the Festival embraces its peripheral location as a strength. By remaining rooted in the community where it was born, Luksuz has cultivated a cultural space with a global outlook without relocating to a major city, fostering a truly decentralized perspective. This connection to peripheral spaces is at the core of the 2026 edition, which will spotlight stories of ongoing fights from the margins of dominant cultural and political systems.

The program highlights cinema as a powerful communication tool, accessible and understandable to everyone, bringing political and social discussions out of exclusive academies and television news and back to the streets and independent cultural spaces. It focuses on short-term, low-budget alternative films, especially by younger authors, produced outside commercial or institutional frameworks.

Over three days of screenings, discussions, exhibitions, concerts, and community events, the Festival offers an inclusive gathering for filmmakers who believe in cinema made from the ground up, inventive, politically aware, socially engaged, and proudly rooted in marginal spaces.

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23RD LUKSUZ FESTIVAL POCENI FILMA
JANUARY 23-25, 2026
KRŠKO, SLOVENIA

Luksuz Film Festival se vrača s svojo 23. izdajo in nadaljuje svojo misijo podpore neodvisnemu filmu z vsega sveta. Festival, ki ga je leta 2003 zagnala Luksuz Produkcija, je postal edinstvena platforma za uveljavljajoče se avtorje in lokalne glasove, ki izzivajo prevladujoče pripovedi.

Festival poteka v Krškem, majhnem mestu na vzhodu Slovenije, in kot prednost izkorišča svojo obrobno lokacijo. S tem, da ostaja zasidran v skupnosti, kjer je nastal, je ustvaril kulturni prostor z globalnim pogledom, ne da bi se preselil v večje mesto, kar omogoča resnično decentralizirano perspektivo. Ta povezava z obrobnimi prostori je v
središču izdaje 2026, ki bo izpostavila zgodbe o tekočih bojih z obrobja prevladujočih kulturnih in političnih sistemov.

Program poudarja kino kot močno orodje komunikacije, dostopno in razumljivo vsem, ki politične in družbene razprave prinaša iz ekskluzivnih akademij in televizijskih novic nazaj na ulice in v neodvisne kulturne prostore. Osredotoča se na kratkoročne, nizkocenovne alternativne filme, še posebej avtorjev, ustvarjene zunaj komercialnih ali institucionalnih okvirjev.