Tribute to a Vision 2026: everything you need to know
Dal 29 settembre al 4 ottobre 2026 il festival cinematografico transfrontaliero Omaggio a una visione / Poklon viziji torna nelle città gemelle di Gorizia e Nova Gorica, dove oggi i confini sono quasi impercettibili e l’intreccio delle culture resta una realtà quotidiana, stratificata e fortemente presente.
What to expect
For more than twenty-five years, the festival, organized by Kinoatelje, has transformed cinemas, public spaces, and cities on both sides of the Slovenian-Italian border into places of encounter: between filmmakers and audiences, between languages and memories, between local realities and distant cinematic landscapes. Moving across venues and communities, the festival creates a living platform for dialogue, collaboration, and exchange between cultural institutions, artists, thinkers, and spectators.
Visionary filmmakers, critical voices, and adventurous creators are invited to present cinema as a space for reflection, experimentation, and social imagination.
The festival programme unfolds through several sections, including the Darko Bratina Award, dedicated to filmmakers whose work offers a profound reflection on contemporary society; First Crossings, a platform devoted to emerging short-film authors and new cinematic languages; Visionaries, spotlighting bold and influential international auteurs; Cinemaeye, exploring iconic Slovenian and Italian cinematic legacies, as well as collective filmmaking as radical social work; Excursion, a journey into selected international film landscapes; and the Extra Programme, featuring audiovisual installations, performances, exhibitions, and concerts developed with local artists and institutions.
Sensibilities emerging from Europe’s northern edge
The first glimpse into the 2026 edition arrives through Excursion, which this year turns northwards, towards Finland.
In collaboration with Tampere Film Festival, the largest short film festival in the Nordic countries, the festival opens a cinematic passage to contemporary Finnish film culture while also expanding its cooperation with the Oulu International Children’s and Youth Film Festival. As part of the Finnish collaboration, a dedicated youth cinema event Cinema Is Our Magnet 3 is planned during the 2026 festival edition, bringing Finnish films and cultural perspectives closer to children from both sides of the border.
This collaboration is further enriched through its connection with Oulu European Capital of Culture 2026, continuing the dialogue between European Capitals of Culture, following our own experience as part of GO! 2025.
The 27th Darko Bratina Awars goes to the director Alexandra Gulea
The festival's central event, on 2 October 2026, will be the presentation of the 27th Darko Bratina Award. Since 1999, Kinoatelje has conferred this award on filmmakers whose body of work is distinguished by a strong artistic vision, a profound sensitivity to social and historical contexts, and a commitment to intercultural dialogue.
This year's recipient is the Romanian filmmaker Alexandra Gulea, whose films reveal overlooked communities, invisible borders, and stories that only come into focus when viewed with careful attention and deep empathy.
The festival will honour Alexandra Gulea with a retrospective of selected works and a masterclass, culminating in the official award ceremony on Friday, October 2nd.