SLOVENIA Hope in the face of adversity Slovene cinema & the Portorož Festival of Slovene Film Portorož was shorter this year and Slovene film still has some way to go, but there was still optimism. Brian J Požun looks at the event and the national industry. SLOVENIA Small town on the edge Saša Đukić's Na svoji Vesni (On My Darling Vesna, 2002) and the Novo Mesto scene Despite increasing international recognition, Slovene cinema has yet to have domestic box office success. Brian J Požun looks at a small town and a new film that could change all that. MACEDONIA Growing pains Skopje Film Festival 2002 This year, the Skopje Film Festival changed venue, embraced Europe, dropped it's lo-fi aesthetic and lost the aroma of pot. Igor Pop Trajkov mulls over whether the event was better for the changes.

Keep track of what's in Kinoeye by joining our free e-mail update service. Subscribe here.

HORROR Surprising origins Florentine 18th-century wax anatomical models as inspiration for Italian horror Drawing from feminist-oriented psychoanalytic theories of the horror film as well as the socio-cultural analysis of horror myths, Annette Burfoot reveals the extent to which 18th-century life-size wax models of the female body in various states of dissection—still on display in a Florentine museum, La Specola—"provides the basis for various principles of horror."

Copyright © Kinoeye 2001-2008