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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

Land of A Thousand and One Nights and Persian poetry, Iran has turned cinema into the art of suggestion: when speech is monitored, the image becomes a poem and editing a figure of style.
Commentary on the award ceremony at the Venice International Film Festival 2025. By Peter Paul Huth

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2

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