OPEN CALL FOR FILMS
“Illegal city” can be understood in many ways through countercultures, marginal realities, imagined communities. Everything that lives outside the city as an institution: parties, autonomous spaces, ways of living outside the capitalist logic.
For this reason, the Festival focuses on short, low-budget, alternative films, especially by younger authors, produced outside commercial or institutional frameworks. Over 3 days of screenings, lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and community events, the Festival offers a platform for independent artists who want autonomous art.
Deadline for submissions is the 20th December.
24TH LUKSUZ FILM FESTIVAL
JANUARY 22-24, 2027
KRŠKO, SLOVENIA
The Luksuz Film Festival returns for its 24th 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 who challenge dominant
narratives.
This year, the Festival will focus on the topic of the Illegal City: the city as a space that can
be occupied, escaped, and reinvented outside the structures of the capitalist, surveilled
urban system. The Illegal City is understood as what escapes the space planned, mapped,
and regulated from above by the System.
Through the idea of the city safari, the Festival explores ways of moving through and
inhabiting the city beyond its intended functions, following marginal subjectivities, street
cultures, youth countercultures, and imagined communities. It looks at how alternative
spaces and communities emerge outside established institutions and profit-driven logic,
drawing on the punk idea of DIY: taking space into your own hands and creating the
conditions to make, gather, and exist without waiting for institutional permission.
These are also the premises that have inspired Luksuz Produkcija throughout the years:
making films — and festivals — without necessarily waiting for the institutional film system to
authorize you to do so. For this reason, the Festival focuses on short, low-budget, alternative
films, especially by younger authors, produced outside commercial or institutional
frameworks.
Over three days of screenings, lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and community events, the
Festival offers an inclusive gathering for international filmmakers who believe in cinema
made from the ground up: inventive, politically aware, socially engaged, and autonomous
from institutions.
