Accompanying Program

SOČA TRAVELLING CINEMA – Isonzo Cinema

As day turns into evening, the screen of the summer cinema stretches once again across the places on both sides of the border. Soča Travelling Cinema – Isonzo Cinema, a turquoise messenger of cinematic stories, continues its journey. Until the end of the summer, Kinoatelje, together with numerous partners, will light up summer nights with film screenings, conversations with filmmakers, and the unique magic of open-air cinema. Spanning cultural venues from the source to the mouth of the Soča/Isonzo River, the network brings high-quality cinema to places where there is usually no movie theatre, while creating space for a slower gaze, shared experiences, and stories that linger long into the night amid the rustling trees, the evening breeze, and the glow of the projector.

This year, the travelling cinema also arrives in Breginj, the westernmost village along the Slovenian–Italian border, where the spotlight will be on films that reveal the richness of the landscape, memory, and local identity through cinematic storytelling. The screening is organised in collaboration with Sajeta Music Festival and Zveza Mink Tolmin. Join us under the stars at Karavla on Wednesday, 15 July, at 9:00 PM, for screenings of Drežniška koza in njeni ljudje (“Drežnica Goat and Her People”) by director Marko Kumer Murč and Starmi Cajt (“Steep Time”) by director Alvaro Petricig, who will also be joining us as a guest.

In case of bad weather, the screening will take place indoors at Karavla. Admission is free.

DREŽNIŠKA KOZA IN NJENI LJUDJE (“Drežnica Goat and Her People”)
(Marko Kumer Murč, Slovenia, 2025, 51′) OV SLO

The Drežnica goat is critically endangered. Along with the goat, the only indigenous Slovenian breed that reigns on the steep slopes of Northern Primorska, the nation’s biodiversity is at risk, as well as the ethnographic, cultural, and spiritual heritage of the local area. The extinction of the Drežnica goat would mark the end of generations-long harmony between humans and nature, the collaboration of communities, and the agrarian model that we now recognize as the foundation of sustainable development. The film showcases never-before-seen documentary footage of goats in their natural habitat on the inaccessible Alpine cliffs, along with the stories of locals who, using their own skills and the ancestral wisdom passed down through generations, strive to avert the inevitable.

Director’s statement:
“I was introduced to this world by Professor Simon Horvat, a key advocate for the breed. Through never-before-seen footage, I document farmers’ stories and the goats navigating Alpine cliffs, while also revealing the uncertainty, especially when Janja considers quitting.”

STARMI CAJT (“Il tempo ripido”, “Steep Time”)
(Alvaro Petricig, Italy, 2003, 28′) SUB IT + SLO

Starmi cajt . Il tempo ripido . Steep time: a sudden acceleration of time, as if level ground had suddenly tipped, causing everything to tumble down. In this documentary, Super 8 footage, photographs, voices, and memories resurface like the findings of contemporary archaeology, recounting the visible and invisible transformations that followed the 1976 earthquake. It is a reflection on the changes that took place during the final decades of the twentieth century, both in the villages of the Nadiža valleys and beyond.

With the financial support of: City Municipality of Nova Gorica, Government Office for Slovenians Abroad, Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Sponsors: Soške Elektrarne Nova Gorica, ZKB – Trieste Gorizia Bank.

During 2024–2025, the travelling Kino Soča–Isonzo Cinema established a network of open-air cinemas in picturesque locations along the Slovenian–Italian border.

》》》hydraHacks (hHx)

by Peter Purg

Meet Hydra, a posthuman figure of multiplicity: an environmental identity crisis embodied. Each of its myth-tech eco-hack grows from research into a particular body of water. The Natisone/Nadison river is strained by sewage mismanagement and overbathing, stirred by contested access and apparently starved by climate change. Can damaged waters be restored by unraveling submerged histories? Or through fragile artistic practices of care? Hydra’s movements negotiate current, threshold, obstruction and retreat. Generating a sonic field from the microscape’s ecological tensions and cultural narratives. An eerie entertainment for accidental bathers-by. An estranging composition of pressures, leakages, interruptions and re-emergences. In Greek myth, Hydra is the killer serpent of Lernaea swamp that survives all decapitation attempts until Heracles seals its wounds with fire and buries its immortal head under a rock. Or has the hero failed perhaps? Welcome to the second site-specific performance of the hydraHacks series unfolding across vulnerable Adriatic waterscapes.

When: On Saturday, 18 July 2026, at 14:00

Location: just downstream from Vittorio Bridge: 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/rrmehUuiBpfMZE5t9 (46.243410, 13.406708).

TRANSHUMANISM AT THE GATES

Transhumanism is not merely a trend of merging humans and machines that emerged as a consequence of technological progress. It is a philosophy and an idea of transcending—or transforming—the human being, with roots stretching far back into the history of civilization. Today, however, we are witnessing attempts at its most radical realization.
Transhumanism is not only a technological issue; it is also a philosophical, political, social, religious, and even metaphysical one, as it confronts us with a seemingly simple question: “Who am I?”
At a time when ideas of enhancing human beings through nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and even the transfer of consciousness into computer systems are becoming increasingly prominent, this question is no longer merely academic. Understanding the true nature of transhumanism may also be the only way to avoid it…

Krešimir Mišak (1972) is a Croatian journalist, writer, musician, and television host, best known as the creator and presenter of the cult TV program On the Edge of Science (Na rubu znanosti), which has been broadcast on Croatian Radiotelevision since 2002. For decades, he has explored topics at the intersection of science, philosophy, society, and spirituality, presenting them through television programs, lectures, and books.
He is the author of numerous books, including Death to Transhumanism, Freedom to the People! (Smrt transhumanizmu, sloboda narodu!), which examines the phenomenon that will be discussed at Sajeta, as well as several works dealing with unexplained phenomena and contemporary social issues. As a science fiction writer, he has twice received Croatia’s prestigious SFERA Award for Best Short Story.
In addition to writing, he remains active as a musician and author. Through his work, he encourages critical reflection on the modern world, technology, and humanity’s place in the future.