International awards

2026

Gregor Božič, Julij Zornik, Marina Gumzi
Cinematographer, Producer, Sound

Fiume o morte! (Italy - Slovenia - Croatia co-production)

European Documentary

The European Film Academy, Berlin, Germany

Category: Film

Awards in 2025

2025

Aleš Šteger
Poet

Au-delà du ciel sous la terre [Above the Sky Beneath the Earth]

Prix Max Jacob Etranger

L'Association des Amis de Max Jacob, Paris, France

Category: Literature

2025

Alina Juhart, Mia Skrbinac, Mila Milovanović, Sarah Al Saleh
Quartet of actresses

Fantasy

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress

Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Category: Film

2025

Miroslav Košuta
Playwright, Poet, Translator

Lifetime achievements of the Slovenian minority poet

Rilke Award

Duino/Devin - Aurisina/Nabrežina Municipality, Duino, Italy

Category: Literature

2025

Ljubljana Puppet Theater, Matija Solce
Director, Producer

Seansa Bulgakov [Session Bulgakov]

The Best Performance

Veszprém International Puppet Festival for Adults, Veszprém, Hungary

Category: Puppetry, Theatre

2025

SPOK Films, Urška Djukić
Film director

Kaj ti je deklica? [Little Trouble Girls]

FIPRESCI Award (Jury of Critics Award) for the best film (First Feature) in Perspectives section

Berlinale, Berlin, Germany

Category: Film

Awards in 2024

2024

Women Writers Route

Čez-mejno drzne [Bold and Borderless]

Best Practice Award

Annual Advisory Forum of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, Budapest, Hungary

Category: Literature

2024

Ana Skobe
Architecture photographer

Času izvzet [Falling out of time]

Sony World Photography Awards in Category Architecture

World Photography Organisation Creo, London, United Kingdom

Category: Photography

2024

Lun Sevnik
Film director, Screenwriter

Morje med nama [The Sea In Between]

Best screenplay

Poitiers Film Festival, Poitiers, France

Category: Film

2024

A Atalanta, Klemen Dvornik
Film director

Dvorišča ne damo! [Block 5]

ECFA Award (Special Jury) Best Film

Castellinaria Film Festival/European Children's Film Association, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Category: Film

2024

Cvinger Film, Lun Sevnik, Rok Biček
Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter

Morje med nama [The Sea In Between]

Best Short Film

Stockholm international film festival, Stockholm, Sweden

Category: Film

Awards in 2023

2023

Ambrož Čopi, Ljubljana Music and Ballet Conservatory Chamber Choir

conducting and singing

Choir of the World Award

World Choir Festival, Hong Kong, China

Category: Music

2023

Drago Jančar
Writer

In ljubezen tudi [And Love Itself / E l’amore anche ha bisogno di riposo]

Latisana per il Nord-Est International Literary Prize

Latisana Municipality and Bibliotheca Civica, Latisana, Italy

Category: Literature

2023

Adria, Sito Design Slovenia
Design

Adria mobil

German Design Award for Excellent Product Design, Passenger Vehicles

German Design Council, Berlin, Germany

Category: Design

2023

Jan Vrhovnik
Director of photography, Film director, Screenwriter

Edi [short-feature film]

Young Directors Award (Passion project)

Commercial Film Producers of Europe, Cannes, France

Category: Film

2023

Aleš Šteger
Writer

Gebrauchsanweisung fur Slowenien [User Manual for Slovenia]

ITB 2023 in the category 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair Guest of Honour

Internationale Tourismus-Börse, Berlin, Germany

Category: Literature

2023

Gregor Božič, Nosorogi
Film director, Film production, Screenwriter

Sadni film [Tales of Fruits and Monsters]

Providenza Award, Nebulae Award, DA Films – VOD Platform

FID-LAB, Film International Festival Marseille, Marseille, France

Category: Film

2023

Academic Choir Tone Tomšič, University of Ljubljana

Folk Song First Prize

International Choir Competition Spittal an der Drau, Spittal an der Drau, Austria

Category: Music

2023

Karmina Šilec
Composer, Conductor

her contribution to music art

Darinka Matić Marović Prize for Music Artists of the former Yugoslavia territory

KotorArt Festival, Kotor, Montenegro

Category: Music

2023

Émilie Pigeard, Urška Djukić
Film director, Illustrator

Babičino seksualno življenje [Granny's Sexual Life]

Cesar

L’Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, Paris, France

Category: Film

2023

Janez Škof, Jernej Lorenci, Ptuj City Theatre
Actor, Director, Producer

Frančišek [Francis]

Viminacium Maximus Prize and Golden Fibulae

ViminaciumFest, Požarevac, Serbia

Category: Theatre

2023

Angele Nanetti, Enrica Carini, Fabrizio Montecchi, Maša Avsec
Director, Lighting designer

Moj dedek je bil češnjevo drevo [My Grandfather was a Cherry Tree]

Award for the best direction, lighting design, adaptation of the text and for the visual design

InPut Festival, Karlovac, Croatia

Category: Puppetry

Awards in 2022

2022

Danijel Hočevar, Laura Samani, Mitja Ličen
Director of photography, Producer

Telesce [Small Body (Piccolo Corpo)]

European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI

International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI, Reykjavík/Berlin, Germany

Category: Film

2022

Špela Čadež
Animation author and director

Steakhouse

Short Films Competition Section Jury Award

Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Annecy, France

Category: Film

2022

Matevž Luzar
Film director

Orkester [Orchestra]

Film Direction Award in the Forward Future Section

Beijing International Film Festival, Beijing, China

Category: Film

2022

Émilie Pigeard, Urška Djukić
Film director, Illustrator

Babičino seksualno življenje [Granny's Sexual Life]

European Short Film Award

European Film Academy and European Film Academy Productions, Berlin, Germany

Category: Film

2022

Ana Marwan
Author

Krota / Wechselkröte

Ingeborg Bachmann Award

Festival of German-Language Literature, Klagenfurt/Celovec, Austria

Category: Literature

Awards in 2021

2021

Mirjam Korbar, Peter Musevski
Actors

Zastoj [Deadlock]

Young Tree Award

Mostar Film Festival, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Category: Film

2021

Alexander Gadjiev
Pianist

the best performance of a sonata

2nd Place at the Chopin Competition and the Krystian Zimerman Prize

The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, Warsaw, Poland

Category: Music

2021

Kozjanski Park Public Institute

Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes

UNESCO-Greece, International awards, International awards

Category: Heritage

2021

Branko Završan
Actor

for the best acting [Giorgia Milocca]

Vittorio Gassman Award

Bologna, Italy

Category: Film

2021

Jasmina Cibic
Visual artist

opus spanning performance, installation and film

The Jarman Award 2021

Film London, London, United Kingdom

Category: Film

2021

Petra Strahovnik

Composer, Musician

Berlin Art Prize for Music

Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

Category: Music

2021

Maja Haderlap
Author

literary opus

Christine Lavant Prize

International Christina Lavant Society, Vienna, Austria

Category: Literature

2021

Doroteja Nadrah, Prešeren Theatre Kranj, Ptuj City Theatre
Actress, Producer, Stage performance

Škofjeloški pasijon [Škofja Loka Passion Play]

Viminacium Maximus Prize and Golden Fibulae

ViminaciumFest, Požarevac, Serbia

Category: Theatre

2021

Anja Mugerli

Čebelja družina (roman) [Bee Family (a novel)]

European Union Prize for Literature

European Union, International awards, International awards

Category: Literature

2021

Marija Zidar
Documentary film director

Odpuščanje [Reconciliation]

best female director

Sofia, Bulgaria

Category: Film

2021

Katarina Rešek - KUKLA
Director, Film score composer, Screenwriter

Sestre [Sisters]

Grand Prix

Clermont-Ferrant, France

Category: Film

2021

Marija Zidar
Film director

Odpuščanje [Reconciliation]

Best Documentary

Tetova International Film Festival, Tetovo, North Macedonia

Category: Film

2021

Nataša Matjašec Rošker
Actress

Immaculata [Immaculate]

Adelaide Ristori Award for Best Actress

Cividale del Friuli, Italy

Category: Theatre

2021

Carmina Slovenica, Karmina Šilec
Concept, Stage and Music Direction

THRENOS (for the Throat)

Music Theatre Now 2021 Award

Association Music Theatre NOW, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Category: Music

Awards in 2020

2020

Ema Kugler
Film director, Video artist

Človek s senco [Man with the Shadow]

Best Experimental Film, Best Narrative Feature

Los Angeles, USA

Category: Film

Award info Artwork info

2020

Goran Vojnović
Author

Jugoslavija, moja dežela, translated into Polish by Joanna Pomorska [Yugoslavia, My Fatherland]

Angelus Central European Literature Award

the City of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland

Category: Literature

Award info Artwork info

2020

Katja Colja
Film director

Igor in Rosa [Igor and Rosa]

Best Foreign-Language Film Award

Tarzana, USA

Category: Film

2020

Branko Završan
Film actor

Il confine e un bosco

Colosseo d’Argento

Rome, Italy

Category: Film

2020

Drago Jančar
Author

life-time achievements [11 novels, including And Love Itself / Wenn die Liebe ruht]

Austrian State Prize for European Literature

Federal Chancellery of Austria, Vienna, Austria

Category: Literature

2020

Ven Jemeršič
Film director

Stoletje sanj [A Century of Dreams]

Best Documentary Feature (International Competition)

Lima, Peru

Category: Film

2020

Gregor Božič
Film director

Zgodbe iz kostanjevih gozdov [Stories from the Chestnut Woods]

Critics’ Prize

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Category: Film

2020

Gregor Božič
Film director

Zgodbe iz kostanjevih gozdov [Stories from the Chestnut Woods]

Jury’s Prize (International Competition)

Nara, Japan

Category: Film