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Curator and screenwriter
Country of origin
Slowenien

Suzana Kokalj (*1987) studied art history at the Faculty of Art/Ljubljana and video production at the Institute and Academy of Multimedia/Ljubljana in. She has worked as a curator in an art gallery and on various projects in film production. She has been working with Studio Siposh since 2022. Her passion is screenwriting: in 2022 she was part of a Writers' Room on Slovenian television POP TV. In 2022 she received a special prize at the Hypewriter Pitching Forum and presented her project at the TV Beats Co-Financing Market at the 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Suzana is also the co-founder of #FLIF, an independent short film festival in Tržič, Slovenia.

Current issues

Peter Paul Huth comments favourably on the 2026 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony, highlighting in particular the Golden Lion winner, “Kvinde Ukendt” (Unknown Woman) by May el-Toukhy, and “Un bon petit soldat” by Stéphane Brizé, which won the award for Best Screenplay and the INTERFILM Jury Prize.
Alex Gibney’s documentary *Musk* portrays a ‘hero of capitalism’, whilst Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s *DAU* evokes the victims of Stalinism.

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin

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