Otok, Institute for Social and Cultural Development is a non-profit organization established in 2003 and the main producer of the Kino Otok – Isola Cinema international film festival, which is held annually in Izola, Ljubljana, and elsewhere in Slovenia, since 2004. 

Otok is also the organizer of numerous film-related events during the year and the leading institution with decentralized film literacy projects in the south-western region of Slovenia. 

The main objectives of our programmes are to enhance film culture within the general audience, as well as connect and educate film professionals while reflecting on film and society through world cinema in all its diversity.

Otok Institute integrates Moving Cinema since 2018. In 2023, it launched Young4Film with Kino Otok, Beldocs (since 2020) alongside A Bao A Qu, Meno Avilys, Kijufi, and the Beldocs festivals, Vilnius International Short Film Festival, Piccolo Grande Cinema, and Motovun Film Festival.