The year 2014 was exceptional for Kinodvor City Cinema since for the third year in a row they exceeded the number of 120,000 visitors.

Kinodvor is considered as a recognisable city cinema that is more than just another cinema to its visitors, with a major emphasis on film education and programmes for the young audiences. In 2014, the total number of visitors reached 120,119 who visited 1,892 public screenings Kinodvor is showing in two theatre halls with a total of 218 seats and on external locations of the mobile cinema.

In addition to a varied film programme, Kinodvor dedicates a considerable amount of attention to international activities. Thus last year they organised two international conferences about the issue of the future of cinematography. Let us recall: as early as November 2009 Kinodvor organised an international professional meeting entitled Networks and Art Cinema Digitalisation which has prompted the formal establishment of the Art Cinema Network of Slovenia (AKMS), an association of cinemas and other screening establishments of Slovenian quality and art film as well as triggered the creation of a national art cinema digitisation plan in Slovenia.

The first conference in the context of Year in Cinema – the celebration of the 90th anniversary of the cinema at the location of the present-day Kinodvor – was the conference the Place of Cinema which was held in October 2013 where the representatives of different European cinemas and film professionals discussed the importance and role the cinema has nowadays while trying to answer the questions about its future.

Reflecting on the cinema's role in implementation of film education was the focus of the second international conference entitled Film Education in Cinemas that took place in Kinodvor in May 2014. The conference gathered Slovenian educational professionals in film and international experts; who tried to answer practical questions that appear in their daily work: how to attract teenagers to the cinema – how to lure them during their free time. How to understand the present use of new media and include it in the film education programme? How should the film screening establishments cooperate with educational institutions? How to think films with children and young people? Or in other words: what really helps in developing sensitivity to film?

Plans for the future

During six years of operation the Kinodvor City Cinema strengthened its visibility as a film institution committed to screening quality film, and remains a popular film centre and meeting-point; its added value is represented by the social orientation of film events or cinema hangouts accompanied by educational activities concerning film, in particular workshops and talks with experts and film-makers. Interest and needs for such programmes grow due to the effects of the diversity of the city cinema's programme as well as projects to promote their availability, both on the part of the producers and distributors as well as the users and the public.