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SOCIAL ISSUES PRODUCED BY A FILM SCHOOL OR A FILM ACADEMY CROATIAN MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION FUNDED BY THE CROATIAN AUDIOVISUAL CENTRE CROATIAN AUDIOVISUAL CENTRE AT Croatian Audiovisual Centre THE MARCHÉ DU FILM Department of Promotion Facts&Figures: — SEE Pavilion no. 127 [email protected] Croatian Village International Riviera www.havc.hr Cinema 2020 DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT – IN COMPETITION FOR THE CAMÉRA D’OR AWARD FILM PRODUCTION Murina • BY ANTONETA ALAMAT Total Feature Films Produced KUSIJANOVIĆ (pg. 4, 5) (100% national and majority co-productions): 3 Théâtre Croisette supported by Croatian sat 10 July | 14:30 Audiovisual Centre: 3 Cinéma Alexandre III Total Minority Co-Productions: 3 sun 11 July | 9:00 supported by Croatian Audiovisual Centre: 3 Cinéma Les Arcades / Salle 1 sun 11 July | 11:30 Total Feature Documentary Films Produced (incl. minority co- Cinéma Studio 13 productions): 11 sun 11 July | 21:00 supported by Croatian Audiovisual Centre: 7 CROATIAN FILMS @ THE Total Experimental Feature Films Produced (incl. minority co- MARCHÉ DU FILM productions): 1 supported by Croatian Murina (pg. 4, 5) Audiovisual Centre: 1 BY ANTONETA ALAMAT KUSIJANOVIĆ Olympia | sun 11 July | 14:15 Total Short Films Produced (incl. minority co-productions): 92 A Blue Flower (pg. 4) supported by Croatian BY ZRINKO OGRESTA Audiovisual Centre: 35 Olympia | sat 10 July | 9:00 Short Animation: 19 The Staffroom (pg. 6, 7) supported by Croatian Audiovisual Centre: 11 BY SONJA TAROKIĆ Palais G | wed 7 July | 9:30 Short Documentary: 33 supported by Croatian CROATIAN SHORTS @ Audiovisual Centre: 9 THE SHORT FILM CORNER Short Fiction: 23 Dear Aki (pg. 24) Real Boy (pg. 23) supported by Croatian BY NINA KURTELA BY IRENA JUKIĆ PRANJIĆ Audiovisual Centre: 11 Can You See Them? (pg. 21, 22) Lurch (pg. 15) Short Experimental: 17 supported by Croatian BY BRUNO RAZUM BY JASNA NANUT, ČEJEN ČERNIĆ ČANAK, JUDITA GAMULIN Audiovisual Centre: 4 The Raft (pg. 23) Just Between Us (pg. 23) BY MARKO MEŠTROVIĆ BY PETRA BALEKIĆ TAGS FILM EXHIBITION Debut Film Film dealing with Film funded by social issues the Croatian Au- Film focused on women diovisual Centre Market share of domestic films: or directed by a woman Film produced within through its public 1.32% a film school or a film calls, film incen- Film with lgbtiq academy tives programme Number of cinemas: characters or motifs (cash rebate) or 96 One of the minority matching funds Film suitable for children co-producers is a up to 12 years old Croatian company Number of screens: 192 Average ticket price: EDITOR'S NOTES 4.24 eur The films in this catalogue are mostly the editors' If not stated otherwise, films have been publicly choice. We tried to include all professional screened or broadcasted. Completion of films in productions with a release date in 2021 and post-production is planned for 2021. some films released in the last half of 2020. Please note that information about the films in this catalogue may still be subject to change. Nina Violić kick and scream In her feature debut, the renowned Croatian actress actors. In presenting a character, we dealt both with Not only did you direct and write the film but Nina Violić deals with the slight but pivotal differences that character’s perspective, as well as the perspective are also playing one of the main protagonists in perception that make up our experiences of the of the protagonist whose story we were telling. I was in the story. How did you manage to balance world, of our relationships, and ultimately, of our posi- interested in that discontinuity between the characters these different roles? tions within them. and the relationship between them. I started writing the script ten years ago, with my col- If I were to describe the subject of my film in one leagues Goran Bogdan and Lee Delong in mind, as How would you describe the topic of the film? word, it would be a film about a relationship, or more well as myself. So, I knew from the start what I was It is a film about our inability to perceive anything in precisely, relationships. getting into. In the meantime, I directed two short our lives objectively. films, and somehow, I found myself ready for this The child’s perspective features puppet play experiment. Everything was very well prepared; in my The story is told from three different points of sequences, which lend a surreal quality to the experience, if you are performing two functions on the view, each presenting a slightly different expe- film. Can you tell us more about your decision set, it is only possible if you have made detailed prepa- rience of the same events. But the differences to use this technique? rations ahead of time and organised everything in an in perspective are also reflected in the direct- One part of the child’s perspective features a puppet authentic way that would make the situation easier for ing style and choices, as well as the acting. play that we decided to shoot live because I wanted you and the crew. When you only have one position to Can you elaborate on your approach? to create the world of a child’s imagination, which is fulfil, you have a lot more opportunity to improvise. My aim was to reconstruct the last half-hour leading naive, unpredictable and which doesn’t remind us As I am first and foremost an actress, that was the up to the break-up of a family from the perspectives of the typical ways of presenting a child’s universe. area where I allowed myself, and the other actors, to of all three members, i.e., characters in the film. We No member of our film crew has ever worked with improvise. As far as directing goes, I followed the plan put a lot of effort into creating a unified visual system, puppets, so that part of filming was a real trip into I had set in advance. so as to avoid a disparate effect that would divide the unknown for us. And I adore those kinds of trips. the film into three different stories. For that reason, I often caught myself giving out acting instructions to subtlety was the guiding principle of the entire di- the puppets, getting angry that they don’t understand recting approach. Transitions between the different me, to the general amusement of the crew. I worried perspectives needed to be almost imperceptible. We constantly if we were naive enough. When the editor changed the lenses and the way the camera moved, Vlado Gojun saw the material, he said: “God, this is so in order to reflect the psychology of each character. I stupid, it couldn’t get more naive” – I knew I achieved have applied the similar principle to my work with the what I set out to do. croatian audiovisual centre new croatian features and shorts 2/2021 3 UPCOMING FEATURE FILM A Blue Flower Carbide Plavi cvijet Garbura • DIRECTED BY ZRINKO OGRESTA • DIRECTED BY JOSIP ŽUVAN Middle-aged Mirjana works at a thread factory. On the eve of When the relationship between two neighbouring families her 20th work anniversary, when she is to receive an award starts to fall apart, the disruption will sow discord in the at a modest celebration, her interactions with her loved ones close friendship between their two boys. Both children are illustrate parts of her life: the one behind her, the one she is dreaming of change, but only one of them will manage to living and the one that is yet to come. A Blue Flower is a film finally break free from the toxic environment that has de- about a woman, a mother, and a daughter, a film that evokes stroyed the last remnants of childhood innocence in them. emotional associations and urges us to take a long, hard — look at ourselves. hr, rs | 2021/q3 | 110’ | drama | produced by Maxima film (hr) — co-produced by Biberche productions (rs) | int’l sales Wide Management hr, rs | 2021 | 85’ | drama | produced by Interfilm (hr) [email protected], [email protected] | in post-production co-produced by Zillion Film (rs) | [email protected] | Moscow iff 2021 UPCOMING UPCOMING Even Pigs Go to Heaven Kick and Scream Murina Nosila je rubac črleni Baci se na pod • DIRECTED BY ANTONETA ALAMAT KUSIJANOVIĆ • DIRECTED BY GORAN DUKIĆ • DIRECTED BY NINA VIOLIĆ Tensions rise between restless teenager Julija Almighty and all-knowing Jesus Christ, auntie Anka, and a The final half-hour of a marriage falling apart and her oppressive father Ante when an old family curious hog named Beba are the main protagonists of this shown from the perspectives of the wife, husband, friend arrives at their Croatian island home. As musical comedy, situated in a rural Croatian region during and their six-year-old child. As reality intertwines Ante attempts to broker a life-changing deal, their the war years. The folklore atmosphere of a village life, with puppet play, we learn about their own truths, isolated existence leaves Julija wanting more from featuring a wedding, a village fair, and a pig slaughter fest, challenging our initial character judgment. the visitor, who provides a taste of liberation over a serves as a backdrop for the dramatic love between Beba — weekend laid bare to desire and violence. and Roki, a boar of half-Serbian origin. hr | 2021 | 76’ | drama | produced by Spiritus Movens — — co-produced by Terminal 3, mp filmska produkcija, Zagreb film, hr, br, us, si | 2021 | 92’ | drama | produced by Antitalent (hr), rt hr, mk | 2021/q4 | 75’ | romantic comedy | produced by Švenk (hr) Propeler Film, Antitalent | int’l sales Endorphin Film Sales Features (br, us) | co-produced by Spiritus Movens (hr), spok co-produced by Antitalent (hr), Croatian Radiotelevision (hr), Vertigo Visuals [email protected]