All are warmly welcome to attend Kinodvor's annual cinema festival at Ljubljana Castle, every evening from 26 July to 18 August 2012.

In partnership once again with the City of Ljubljana and Ljubljana Castle, Kinodvor is this summer offering films under a starry sky in its annual film festival at Ljubljana Castle.

Film under the Stars opens on Thursday 26 July with The Artist, which swept the board at this year's Oscar's, and concludes on Saturday 18 August with William Friedkin's new film Killer Joe.

Four films are to be premiered and pre-premiered at Ljubljana Castle, with all these screenings in August. 2 August sees the pre-premiere of 2 Days in New York by actress and director Julie Delpy. Woody Allen's latest offering, To Rome with Love is being pre-premiered on 9 August, while the curtain-raising film at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Moonrise Kingdom by director Wes Anderson is scheduled for 14 August. The film transfers to Kinodvor's regular schedule as early as the next day. Just before Film under the Stars draws to a close, there is the pre-premiere of David Cronenberg's latest film, Cosmopolis. The film moves to Kinodvor's regular schedule on 30 August.

The audience helps to shape the content of Film under the Stars, as it includes Kinodvor hits, the most-watched movies at the last Ljubljana International Film Festival, plus the winners from various festivals. Films from the last cinematic season, meaning they have not been on show for long, also make it into the selection, as well as one Slovene movie, an animated film as well as, of course, some cinematic delights in the form of the premieres and pre-premieres.

Among the Kinodvor's hits, the films under the stars include The Tree of Life, the most viewed movie in Kinodvor history since its opening under the City of Ljubljana's wing in October 2008. Kinodvor audiences were also enthusiastic about Freud and Jung in A Dangerous Method, von Trier's Melancholia, Potiche with Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu, and enjoyed the proletarian tale of Le Havre written and directed by Finland's Aki Kaurismäki, while nobody will want to miss Shame, the second feature by British visual artist turned filmmaker Steve McQueen.

One of the most seen films at the last LIFFe will be highly popular again, Almodovar's The Skin I Live In, along with Woody Allen's ode to the French capital and the wild 1920s Midnight in Paris, while relationships between Spanish maids and their masters in the France of the 1960s will be revealed to us in The Women on the 6th Floor.

At Film under the Stars, you will also be able to see the winners from various festivals: the winner at the Berlin Film Festival this year Caesar Must Die, the multi-award winning Iranian film A Separation, which took this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and the winner at last year's LIFFe, Take Shelter.

The animated film category will be represented by the Oscar-winning Rango, Slovenian film by Izlet (A Trip), the debut by young director Nejc Gazvoda, who took seven prizes in Portorož and was ranked in Variety magazine's prestigious 'Ten European Filmmakers to Watch' section at this year's Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

The selection of movies you can see under the stars from the last cinematic season features the Oscar winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, The Descendants with George Clooney, Roman Polanski's Carnage, the Polish romantic comedy and mega-hit Letters to Santa directed by Slovene Mitja Okorn as well as The Salt of Life, a comedy infused with quiet melancholy by Italian screenplay writer and director Gianni Di Gregorio.

The curtain goes up on all the films at 9.30pm, and they are shown in their original language with subtitles in Slovene, while the Slovenian film Izlet will have subtitles in English. Tickets are already on sale.
Admission costs €4; for premieres and pre-premieres (2 days in New York, To Rome with Love, Moonrise Kingdom, Cosmopolis and Killer Joe) it is €5.

Further information is available at www.kinodvor.org.