In your films you often address the tension teeming underneath the surface of polite society. In A Blue Flower, the tension is a Zrinko sort of permanent crisis of communication Croatian Croatian Audiovisual Centre Facts&Figures: between three generations of women. What Department of Promotion Ogresta drew you to the topic? Audiovisual — Croatian FEATURE I have always been interested in relationships and all [email protected] a blue flower of my films are marked by this interest, including A www.havc.hr Blue Flower. Another one of my interests is that which Centre Cinema is irrational in human beings, which is also what, to a FILM large degree, shapes us as people. I often say that the at the Marché du Film 2019 narrative arts, such as literature or film, exist precisely thanks to our irrational side. If it were not for the FILM PRODUCTION One of the most prominent Croatian directors, Zrinko irrational, there would be no art. A Blue Flower is a film Ogresta is known for his subtle and layered depictions about stumbling and the ability to bounce back: the CROATIAN FILMS @ of complex characters in conflict with themselves and main protagonist, Mirjana, is beaten but not defeated by their surroundings. In his new film, he delves into the life, and it is up to her not to repeat the same patterns THE MARCHÉ DU FILM inner life and relationships of a middle-class woman and make the same mistakes her mother made. She, Public funding available for development, at a tipping point in her life. however, makes mistakes and will continue to make production, and other film related activities: them, but, as Beckett said – ‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No 9.4 million eur How would you describe the main protagonist matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’ of your film? Average production of a feature film: She is a middle-aged (45) woman and mother of a A Blue Flower is set in , , with 1 million eur teenage girl, divorced and working as an admin at a the river Sava coming into focus in several small thread manufacturing facility. Mirjana lives a life instances. The motif of the river has always burdened by the wrong choices and decisions she had great symbolic potential. What is its significance in this film? Total Feature Films Produced made in her youth that make it hard for her to find the happiness she so longs for in the present. All of her The symbolism of certain notions and occurrences is (100% national and majority relationships, even with the people closest to her, are universal and well known to everyone. I am not averse co-productions): 12 fragmentary, and, ultimately, superficial, though she to using such symbols in my films, though I do try to supported by Croatian yearns for just the opposite. She fears the future, she make the context shape the symbolic value of a certain Audiovisual Centre: 9 is apprehensive about old age, she is afraid of ending occurrence or situation, which is what I have also done up alone, and these fears burden her relationship with in A Blue Flower. The river is here to remind us of all her daughter. When her mother comes for a visit, she that we let slip by in our relationships with our loved Total Minority Co-Productions: 13 recognizes her future self in her and this unsettles her. ones, which we irretrievably regret later. supported by Croatian Audiovisual Centre: 10 Fishing and Fishermen’s Conversations (pg. 4) by milan trenc Total Feature Documentary Films A Blue Flower Produced (incl. minority Plavi cvijet

co-productions): 12 • directed by supported by Croatian Audiovisual Centre: 6 On the eve of Mirjana’s 20th work anniversary, when she is to receive an award at a modest celebration, her interactions with her loved ones illustrate parts of Total Short Films Produced (incl. her life: the one behind her, the one she is living and minority co-productions): 101 the one that is yet to come. A Blue Flower is a film supported by Croatian about a woman, a mother, and a daughter, a film that evokes emotional associations and urges us to take a Audiovisual Centre: 43 long, hard look at ourselves. — hr, rs | 10,11/2020 | 90' | drama | produced by Interfilm (hr) Short Animation: 20 co-produced by Zillion Film (rs) | [email protected] supported by Croatian in post-production Audiovisual Centre: 9

Tereza37 (pg. 6) by danilo šerbedžija Short Documentary: 30 supported by Croatian Audiovisual Centre: 16

Short Fiction: 33 TAGS supported by Croatian Audiovisual Centre: 12 Debut Film Film dealing with Film funded by social issues the Croatian Film focused on women Audiovisual Short Experimental: 18 or directed by a woman Film produced within Centre through supported by Croatian a film school or a film its public calls, Audiovisual Centre: 6 Film with lgbtiq academy film incentives characters or motifs programme One of the minority (cash rebate) or Film suitable for children co-producers is a matching funds up to 12 years old Croatian company FILM EXHIBITION

EDITOR'S NOTES Market share of domestic films: 4.92%

Number of cinemas: 95 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 Number of screens: 192 productions with a release date in 2020 and post-production is planned for 2020. some films released in the last half of 2019. Please note that information about the films in this catalogue may still be subject to change. Average ticket price: 4.32 eur

2 new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 croatian audiovisual centre croatian audiovisual centre new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 3 Following the emotional experiences of Sonja Anamarija, the film explores small-time corruption that has spread throughout the social hierarchy and is rooted in the society's Tarokić defeatist attitude. Finding herself in this complex community, Anamarija has to figure the staffroom The Dawn The Diary of Diana B. out if accepting the rules of the game will – in the long run – mean victory or defeat. Zora Dnevnik Diane Budisavljević — The Staffroom hr, fr | 9/2020 | 125' | drama | produced by • directed by Dalibor Matanić • directed by Dana Budisavljević Kinorama (hr) | co-produced by KinoElektron (fr) Zbornica New Film Sales | [email protected], As Matija's family confronts unresolved trauma, their Deeply troubled by the persecution of mothers and children • directed by Sonja Tarokić [email protected] | in post-production neighbours flee from the radicalism that divides them in Nazi-occupied Croatia, Austrian housewife Diana into the chosen and the undesirables. As Matija struggles Budisavljević embarks on a perilous campaign, rescuing to find his true self, a dawn breaks over the valley more than 10 000 children from ill-famed Ustasha camps. revealing that the only way to fight trauma and evil is to Initially working in her favour, Diana’s Austrian descent later face them head-on. becomes a burden, and the eventual reason why one of the — greatest humanitarian stories of wwii was left untold. hr, it | 2020 | 110' | drama | produced by Kinorama (hr) — co-produced by Ascent Film (it) | int'l sales Cercamon hr, si, rs | 2019 | 88' | historical drama, documentary fiction | produced by [email protected] | finished – not yet released Hulahop (hr) | co-produced by December (si), This and That Productions (rs) | [email protected] | FilmFestival Cottbus 2019 – Best Debut Film, Zagreb ff 2019 – Best Film, Jerusalem Jewish ff 2019 – Best Feature Film, Göteborg ff 2020

Escape to the Sea Extracurricular Bijeg do mora Dopunska nastava

• directed by Veljko Bulajić • directed by Ivan-Goran Vitez

Narrowly escaping death in a Partisan raid, German soldier Karl Furious because he is not allowed to spend his daughter’s manages to hide in a Partisan village by posing as a deaf-mute ninth birthday with her, a middle-aged, recently divorced father amnesiac. Wounded and weak, he is placed in the care of the bursts into his daughter’s classroom with a birthday gift, a cake, village healer Anka. The two fall in love, but their passionate and a rifle. The town mayor decides to use the ensuing hostage romance is cut short by the discovery of Karl’s deception. crisis to his advantage. No solution is too drastic. — — hr, me, mk | 12/2020 | 93’ | drama, war, romance | produced by Gral Film (hr) hr | 2020 | 101’ | satire, thriller | produced by Interfilm co-produced by Dogma Studio (me), Geyzer Film (mk) | [email protected] [email protected] | Chicago iff 2019; Palm Springs iff 2020 in post-production

Fishing and Fishermen’s Last Serb in Croatia Conversations Posljednji Srbin u Hrvatskoj

Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje • directed by Predrag Ličina • directed by Milan Trenc Mico is a bon viveur whose daily routine consists of visits to Nobleman and poet Petar Hektorović embarks on a boat trip massage parlours, restaurants and cinemas, where he watches with two local fishermen. As they visit the bucolic islands, the movies featuring his favourite actress Franka. When the aging poet reminisces about his youthful tragic love, comes zombie-epidemic catches him completely off guard, he sets off to terms with his artistic (im)potence and struggles with the boldly with a single, if unattainable, goal: survival! uneasy relationship between the nobility and the commoners. — Filmed on location on the Adriatic coast, the film is an intricate hr, rs | 2019 | 90' | horror, comedy | produced by Kinorama (hr) mix of reality, memories, dreams, and visions. co-produced by Art & Popcorn (rs) | int'l sales Media Move — [email protected], [email protected] | Trieste ff 2020; Madeira Fantastic FilmFest 2020 – Best International Feature Film, Best hr | 99'22'' | drama, history | produced by Studio devet Filmmaker (Predrag Ličina), Audience Award for Best International Feature Film [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] finished – not yet released

4 new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 croatian audiovisual centre croatian audiovisual centre new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 5 Mater Murina Po Tamburi All Against All The Barefoot Emperor Breast Vsi proti vsem · Svi protiv svih Bosonogi car Grudi • directed by Jure Pavlović • directed by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović • directed by Stanislav Tomić • directed by Andrej Košak • directed by Jessica Woodworth, Peter Brosens • directed by Marija Perović Jasna, a Croatian ex-pat, returns to her hometown to take care of On a remote Croatian island, restless teenager Julija and Members of the tambura band Aveti Ravnice get falsely her dying mother. But even when lying bedridden, her mother's her young mother lead an isolated life under the oppressive accused of stealing the Golden Ham, the main prize of A corrupt mayor of Rovte, an idyllic Slovenian town , enlists The King of the Belgians suffers a gunshot wound to the ear in Ana, Zorka and Jelena meet in their hometown for their 25-year immobile body still radiates daunting authority over those who hand of her retired father. But tides change when a an annual musical competition. They have to flee for their the help of a local criminal in order to put his opponent out an incident in Sarajevo and wakes up on a Croatian island, once high school reunion. They all live in different countries of the surround her. As days go by, Jasna gets tangled in the web of charming family friend arrives, sparking in Julija the feeling lives, as a wild horde of other bands, police, butchers, and of contention in the upcoming local elections. A story about Tito’s famed summer residence. While he tries to escape from former and each of them has a different, serious grudges that she was desperately trying to escape. Will she finally of an undeniable connection. a helicopter chase after them. the morals of people you would least expect to have any. the island, an envoy arrives announcing that the King has been problem with their breasts. Also there is Fuki, their charming and confront her mother or lose herself in her smothering embrace? — — — proclaimed the first Emperor of a nationalist Nova Europa. mischievous classmate. — hr, br, us, si | 2021 | 94' | drama | produced by Antitalent (hr), rt hr, si, mk, rs | 11/2020 | 90' | comedy | produced by Kaos (hr) si, mk, hr | 2019 | 100' | thriller, drama | produced by Blade produkcija (si) — — hr, rs, fr, ba | 2019 | 95' | drama | produced by Sekvenca (hr) Features (br) | co-produced by Spiritus Movens Production (hr), spok co-produced by Supermarket production (si), Krug Film (mk), k-12 (rs) co-produced by Mind Produkcija (mk), Motion (hr), rtv Slovenija (si), be, nl, hr, bg | 2019 | 95' | drama, comedy | produced by Bo Films (be) me, hr, rs | 2019 | 92' | drama | produced by Open Box Studio (me) co-produced by Wake Up Film & Video Production (rs), Les Films de Production (si), Staragara (si) | [email protected] | in post-production [email protected], [email protected] | in post-production Studio Ritem (si), Daiga (si) | int'l sales Pillango Entertainment co-produced by Topkapi Films (nl), Propeler Film (hr), Wajnbrosse co-produced by Mitropa (hr), Meander Film (me), Visionary Thinking (rs) l'oeil sauvage (fr), Udruženje Novi film (ba) | int’l sales Syndicado Films [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Productions (be), Art Fest (bg) | int'l sales Be For Films int'l sales Visionary Thinking | [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] | Tallinn Black Festival of Slovenian Film 2019 [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] [email protected] | Seanema ff 2019 – Jury Special Mention; Nights ff 2019 – First Feature Competition; Belgrade iff – fest 2020 – Toronto iff 2019; ff 2019; iff Rotterdam 2020 FilmFestival Cottbus 2019 – Spotlight Critics' Award for Best Regional Film ‘Nebojša Đukelić’

Tereza37 The Voice What a Country! Don’t Forget to Breathe Father I Am Frank Glas Koja je ovo država Ne pozabi dihati · Ne zaboravi disati Otac Jaz sem Frenk · Ja sam Frank • directed by Danilo Šerbedžija • directed by Ognjen Sviličić • directed by Vinko Brešan • directed by Martin Turk • directed by Srdan Golubović • directed by Metod Pevec Thirty-seven-year-old Tereza has been married to Marko for 10 years. After her fourth miscarriage, Tereza starts When he arrives at a Catholic boarding school, Goran feels A suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government Fifteen-year-old Klemen lives with his single mother and his The film tells the story of a man whose children are An unexpected inheritance from their late father causes a questioning everything – her marriage, her relationship stifled by instant religion that is being rammed down his who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and parents older brother Peter in a small, remote rural town. Klemen’s well- taken away from him because of poverty. As he makes dispute between Frank, a rebel who still swears by the ‘old with her family and the people around her. She decides to throat. He rejects it all, convinced that we need not believe (, Serbs and Bosniacs), who steal the coffins with the established routine of spending time with his beloved brother the journey from his small town in the south of to values’, and his brother Rajko, a typical post-transition tycoon. turn over a new leaf, without burdening herself with the something that is forced upon us. Even when everyone remains of the late Croatian and Serbian presidents to force on the tennis court and by the nearby river gets interrupted by Belgrade, he is transformed from a loser and castaway into While Frank investigates the origins of money gained through consequences of her actions or her life’s ultimate goals. turns against him, he stands firm and refuses to convert. their governments to finally find the graves of their children Peter’s sudden and passionate love affair with gorgeous Sonja, a hero of our times. suspicious dealings, Rajko wants to claim it with the help of — — who were killed in the war. which triggers in Klemen a torrent of conflicting emotions. — lawyers and his father’s ‘cronies’. Rajko’s wife Ines, in love with hr | 2020 | 100' | drama | produced by Focus Media hr, mk, rs | 2019 | 80' | drama | produced by Maxima film (hr) — — rs, fr, de, hr, si, ba | 2020 | 120' | drama | produced by Baš Čelik (rs) | Frank, finds herself in the middle of the fraternal dispute. [email protected], [email protected] co-produced by Skopje Film Studio (mk), Biberche Productions (rs) hr, pl, rs | 2019 | 117' | satire | produced by Interfilm (hr) | co-produced by si, it, hr | 2019 | 98' | drama | produced by Bela film (si) | co-produced by co-produced by asap Films (fr), Neue Mediopolis (de), Propeler Film (hr), — finished – not yet released [email protected] | Warsaw ff 2019; FilmFestival Cottbus 2019 Orka Productions Studio (pl), Zillion Film (rs) | [email protected] | Quasar Multimedia (it), Studio Dim (hr), RTV (si), Rai Cinema (it) Vertigo (si), scca/Pro.Ba (ba), zdf Arte (de), Arte (fr) | int'l sales si, hr, mk, rs | 2019 | 98' | drama | produced by Vertigo (si) | co-produced by ff 2019 – Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Screenplay; Thessaloniki iff int'l sales Intramovies | [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] The Match Factory | [email protected], [email protected] | Berlinale Interfilm (hr), Small Moves Films (mk), Backroom Production (rs), rtv Slovenija (si) 2019 – Audience Award (Balkan Survey) Alice nella Citta 2019; Brussels Mediterranean ff 2019 2020 – Panorama | int'l sales Soul Food Films | [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] | Festival of Slovenian Film 2019

croatian minority co- productions: After the Winter Aga’s House M Mare My Lake Posle zime · Poslije zime Shpia e Agës · Agina kuća Liqeni Im · Moje jezero • directed by Vardan Tozija • directed by Andrea Štaka • directed by Ivan Bakrač • directed by Lendita Zeqiraj • directed by Gjergj Xhuvani Once left without his protective father, eight-year-old Marko Mare has never flown, although she lives right next to the Five childhood friends in their late twenties, scattered Nine-year-old Aga lives with five women in a house outside the city. embarks on the quest to find his mother in a dangerous, airport with her husband and three teenage children. She Growing up near beautiful lake Prespa, 13-year-old Krsto is FEATURE across the former Yugoslavia, try to maintain their friendship While secretly looking for his missing father, he makes money by dystopian world. loves her family, but sometimes almost feels like a free time boat skipper involved in drug smuggling. Living despite being miles apart. They oppose the patriarchal selling cigarettes on the street. There, he meets Cera, an arrogant — in her own home. She finds herself gazing at the planes without his parents, he has two main interests and neither heritage, ignoring the consequences of war and the poor and abusive man against whom one of the women in the house has mk, hr, xk, gr | 12/2020 | 110' | coming of age, fantasy | produced by Focus overhead, longing for change and the unknown. One day, a of them is school. He is in love with his English teacher, and economy. One year, their carefree, escapist youth suddenly a restraining order. But when one of the women attempts suicide, Pocus Films (mk) | co-produced by 4 Film (hr), In My Country (xk), 2:35 man moves in next door, and Mare puts her life to the test. finds a father figure in Pasko, a drug lord. Once Pasko is FILM comes to an end. Cera is the only one around to help Aga take her to the hospital. (gr) | [email protected], [email protected] | in post-production — framed and killed, Krsto realizes it will be up to himself to — — ch, hr | 2020 | 84’ | drama | produced by Okofilm Productions (ch) survive the harsh world of the lake me, rs, hr, fr | 7/2020 | 100' | drama | produced by Artikulacija Film (me), xk, hr, fr, al | 2019 | 107' | drama, comedy | produced by n’Art Films (xk) co-produced by Dinaridi film (hr), srf (ch), srg ssr (ch), zdf/arte — abho Film (me) | co-produced by Akcija Film (rs), Biberche Productions (rs), co-produced by Woof Films (hr), Sacrebleu Productions (fr), ska-ndal [email protected] | Berlinale 2020 – Panorama al, it, hr, mk | 2020 | 97’ | drama | produced by On Film Production (al) Maxima Film (hr), Arizona Productions (fr) | [email protected], Production (al), sy13 (al) | [email protected], [email protected], co-produced by Hermes Film (it), Corvus Film (hr), Focus Pocus Films [email protected] | in post-production [email protected] | Karlovy Vary iff 2019 – East of the West competition – (mk), Added Value Films | int’l sales Sun Film Group fedeora Jury Special Mention; Göteborg ff 2020 [email protected], [email protected] | finished – not yet released

6 new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 croatian audiovisual centre croatian audiovisual centre new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 7 culture, industry and activist ecology. All of real-life people, they are realistically portrayed these themes intertwine throughout the film. by actors. What was the biggest challenge regarding this decision? Bruno Pavić Your two recent films, Landscape Zero During research, I tried to find compelling people who and Split Screens, deal with the notion live in the immediate vicinity of industrial facilities. FEATURE of coexistence between people and the Several people offered us their stories and put their landscape zero environment they inhabit. Can you tell us a living space at our disposal. However, most of them bit more about your approach to the topic? did not feel comfortable getting in front of the camera. In both films I wanted to avoid the use of I approached city theatres to try to find types of DOCUM interviews and a narrator as the classical actors who would be able to portray these characters In this hybrid documentary, young director Bruno elements of documentary filmmaking. I as realistically as possible. These actors were then Pavić explores the surreal landscape in which challenged myself to find a way to tell these inserted into the living space of real-life people, with Discovering Gea Factory to the Workers? life persists in the midst of a toxic industrial stories using only visual techniques. In Split the exception of the soldier who ‘plays’ himself. The ENTARY Otkrivajući Geu Tvornice radnicima? environment. Screens, in the manner of silent films, the viewers biggest challenge was creating a documentary- are provided with the basic information about like atmosphere and adapting the characters to • directed by Ivan Perić • directed by Srđan Kovačević Can you tell us a bit more about the title of what they are seeing using texts. As they watch observational techniques. the film? the scenes depicting the relationship between Marija finds out that her great-aunt Gea Koenig, a A documentary film portraying the struggle for survival The title was chosen at producer Ivan Perić’s a city and its residents, they are free to make professional photographer, has passed away. Gea of itas, the only factory in Croatia that was occupied and suggestion and can be interpreted as the their own interpretations of this strange world. used to live in the historic Westbeth building, a former defended by its workers. landscape of industrial disaster. It is a reference Landscape Zero offers no factual information Bell Telephone Laboratories research centre which — to ‘ground zero,’ denoting the location of a bomb and the viewers can only observe and experience was converted into artists' housing, the biggest artists’ hr | 12/2019 | 75’ | produced by Fade In | [email protected], explosion or the starting point of an epidemic a small world in which people live in a strange community in the world. We follow Marija as she uncovers [email protected] | in post-production or disaster. It also hints at ‘zero category symbiosis with industry. Some of the characters the stories of Westbeth and Gea's adventurous life. monuments,’ denoting cultural heritage sites of in the film are activists, but their activism stems — the highest order, thus alluding to the notion from the need to survive in their environment. hr, us, it | 11/2020 | 80' | produced by Dream Division Production (hr), that the natural landscape should be protected Handful Films llc (us), Doc Service srl (it) | [email protected], in the same way. However, the meaning of the Though Landscape Zero at times seems [email protected] | in post-production title goes beyond ecology; it could also serve almost postapocalyptically surreal, it to interpret the anthropological context of the portrays very real people in a very real relationship between human beings, nature and landscape. Yet, though the characters are

House in 35 Kraljevec Street Little Star Rising Mechanical Figures_ Kuća na Kraljevcu 35 Kuća Male Zvijezde Inspired by Tesla

• directed by Pero Kvesić • directed by Slađana Lučić Mehaničke figure_Inspirirani Teslom • directed by Helena Bulaja Madunić In an exploration of the possibilities of the visual essay Little Star Rising is a story about Nudžejma Softić, a woman genre, the author reflects on the past, on life, and books. who put on her running shoes at the age of 28 and by 30 In this story, with no beginning or end, viewers travel Dozens of tenants have swept through the house in 35 turned from a non-swimmer into the first European woman from Croatia to New Zealand, ‘meeting’ Nikola Tesla's Kraljevec Street, built half a century ago, among them to compete in the Ironman triathlon wearing a hijab. It tells contemporaries, as well as living people who are inspired writers, publishers, comic book artists, photographers, and of one woman's personal and professional transformation by him. The film follows Tesla's incredible life in the music composers. Is this film an attempt to grasp life and into a force of change in her community. context of illusionism, film, photography, animation, and the fight against transience and oblivion? — entertainment industry. — hr, ba | 2019 | 75'/52' | produced by Wolfgang&Dolly (hr) | co-produced — hr | 12/2020 | 70' | produced by Factum | [email protected] by Al Jazeera Balkans (ba) | [email protected] | Sarajevo ff – bh hr, us, de, uk, ca, nz, it, es | 12/2020 | 90' | cross media documentary in post-production Film 2019; Al Jazeera Balkans doc ff 2019; CinEast 2019; Windsor iff 2019 produced by Teslopolis | co-produced by My Magical Thought, Bulaja Publishing | [email protected] | in post-production

Landscape Zero Nulti krajolik

• directed by Bruno Pavić Mlungu – The White King Museum of Revolution Naked and Barefoot A small coastal area has been destroyed by the Mlungu – Bijeli kralj Muzej revolucije Goli i bosi presence of industrial facilities. The film follows the lives of people who are either fighting for • directed by David Lušičić • directed by Srđan Keča • directed by Mario Kovač their survival among the dangerous facilities or coexisting with them in harmony. Everyday Branimir Orač is a Croatian sailor who was arrested in Living among the remnants of an abandoned utopian We held a fake audition for an erotic movie to see what kind scenes intertwine with different art performances, South Africa for smuggling 230 kg of cocaine on a cargo project, an old lady and a little girl develop an unlikely and of people would show up in Croatia, a conservative Catholic depicting the adjustment of people and animals ship. The film offers an authentic insight into his life in wondrous friendship. As the city erases the spaces they country. After hiring a motley crew of actors, weirdos, and to the degraded environment. prison, followed by his efforts to fit in back in his hometown inhabit, their separation looms on the horizon. misfits, we proceeded to make a ‘making of’ film of a fake — and adapt to the normal world after his release. — erotic comedy Orgazmotron, with a hilarious and politically hr | 2020 | 71' | produced by Udruga Kazimir — rs, hr, cz | 11/2020 | 80' | produced by Uzrok (rs) and Restart (hr) provocative storyline. [email protected], [email protected] hr | 2020 | 70' | produced by Zebra Creative Network co-produced by Nutprodukce (cz) | [email protected] — finished – not yet released [email protected], [email protected] | finished – not yet released in post-production hr | 2020 | 95' | produced by Interfilm | [email protected] finished – not yet released

8 new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 croatian audiovisual centre croatian audiovisual centre new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 9 Following the story of two nuns who fall in love, You made an interesting choice of director Ivana Marinić Kragić explores the issue of narrative technique. self-determination in the surroundings that leave I open the film with archival material, with photo- little room for the complexities of human identity. albums and journals of the protagonists who Ivana Marinić reminisce about events from their childhoods, Can you tell us something about the film’s youth and life in the convent. These scenes Kragić theme? continue to intertwine with reconstructed The film sees identity as a social construct that scenes marked by the stylistic use of timelapse nun of your business questions the positions of fate and choice. It’s photographic sequences. I wanted to put a about freedom, which is a precondition that enables special artistic highlight on stolen moments from every individual’s self-determination. Freedom the protagonists’ pasts, without abandoning the Neighbors Once Upon a Youth Push – Pull represents the responsibility for one’s identity, not canon of documentary prose, and by pursuing Susjedi O jednoj mladosti Povuci – potegni just accepting the conventional concepts of existing a narrative tone based on an unpremeditated structures that can lead to social sanctions and understanding of incredible life experiences. • directed by Tomislav Žaja • directed by Ivan Ramljak • directed by Neven Hitrec taboos. The film is relevant for different social groups, its theme imposing itself as the basis for Nun of Your Business is a documentary film, with An observational documentary about a group of people with Thirteen years after the unexpected death of his once best A family, a nine-year-old child, and an inadequate discussion in the questions of morality, doctrine, sections in which I make use of photography to mental illness who re-join society after decades spent in friend, the filmmaker tries to reconstruct his late friend’s life elementary school curriculum. The child’s work desk human rights and limits to freedom. reconstruct key moments of the protagonists’ isolation. After leaving the institution which housed them, and their friendship, using just the photographs and video becomes the stage for a tragicomic family drama. Who will lives in the convent. The choice of locations, they try to piece their shattered lives back together. material his friend shot back then. be the first to break under the burden of ‘knowledge’? The production design, costumes, even the cast, were — — caring parents or their self-centered offspring? immensely important in order to retain a sense hr | 2019 | 74'/52 | produced by Gral Film | [email protected] hr | 2020 | 77' | produced by Academy of Dramatic Art (Zagreb) — of authenticity. Those and documentary scenes Verona iff 2019 – Best Documentary Film; London idff 2019; seefest – [email protected] | finished – not yet released hr | 2020 | 6'40'' | produced by Jaka produkcija | [email protected], are equally represented. I would add, though, Best Documentary Film, Best Cinematography in a Documentary Film [email protected] | South-East European ff see a paris 2020 – Best that work on the reconstructed parts required far Documentary Film more extensive research and preparation.

Nun of Your Business Nun of Your Business • directed by Ivana Marinić Kragić The Pygmalion Effect Storkman That Other Village • directed by Ivana Marinić Kragić Pigmalionov efekt Ono drugo selo Two young nuns meet during a Catholic • directed by Tomislav Jelinčić, Alan Stanković Twogathering young nuns and meet fall in during love. Spaces a Catholic they gathering once • directed by Ines Pletikos • directed by Jadran Boban andconsidered fall in love. havensSpaces of they solace once and considered spiritual havens Twenty-seven years ago, a widower Stjepan Vokić found of solacefulfillment and turnspiritual out tofulfillment be more turn earthly out thanto be more The Pygmalion effect is a psychological phenomenon that a stork with a broken wing. He saved her life and named This is a film about confronted parallel memories of a village earthlyexpected. than expected. Disillusioned Disillusioned by the Church by the and Church enables people to realize their full potential, based on the her Malena. Since then, Malena has been living with that twice changed its name, population, and its history. The andthe the abuse abuse within within it, it, they they make make the the toughest toughest expectations of others. This method was used by Ante Stjepan, sharing endless lonely winters and happy but short village that got trapped in a vicious circle of never-ending decisiondecision – to – leave to leave the theconvent. convent. Kostelić, father and trainer of Janica and Ivica Kostelić, summers, when Malena’s faithful male stork returns to her. traumas of the 20th century. — — making them Olympic and world champions. This film offers Without Stjepan, Malena would certainly starve to death. And — hr | hr2020 | 2020 | 71'29'' | 71'29'' | produced | produced by Marinis by Marinis Media Media (hr) (hr) a unique view into the story of a sport aficionado who still we ask ourselves, who would Stjepan be without Malena. hr | 2020 | 73’ | produced by Fade In | [email protected], co-producedco-produced by Setby Set Sail Sail Films Films (rs) (rs) | [email protected] | [email protected] considers himself an outsider. — [email protected] | finished – not yet released finishedfinished – not – notyet releasedyet released — hr, si, it | 10/2020 | 82' | produced by Antitalent (hr) | co-produced by hr | 10/2020 | 97’ | produced by Interfilm | [email protected] Tramal films (si), Transmedia production Srl (it) | [email protected] in post-production in post-production

Tusta You with Hands More Innocent Zoza Ti koja imaš nevinije ruke • directed by Andrej Korovljev • directed by Dino Topolnjak • directed by Branko Pejnović A biographical documentary about a punk-rock icon who Zoran Zorčec Zoza graduated in agronomy at the age of surpassed music and became a symbol of common sense A story of Vesna Parun, the most renowned contemporary fifty, ten days after surviving a stroke. He sells eggs and and free thinking. Croatian poet, who, despite her local, regional, and interna- apples on the market and receives social assistance. He — tional recognition, struggled to find peace for the most of recites the poem 'Letter to Mother' by Sergei Yesenin hr | 2019 | 109' | produced by Factum (hr) | co-produced by Wake UpFilms her life. She chose to use that fact as an infinite source of without pausing. (rs), (hr), Award Film & Video (mk) | [email protected] her creative energy. The story is told by her friends, family — Motovun ff 2019; Liburnia ff 2019 – Audience Award; idsff DokuFest 2019; members, and professional admirers. hr | 2020 | 64’ | produced by Focus Media | [email protected] Documentary ff Fibula 2019; Trieste ff 2020 — finished – not yet released hr | 7/2020 | 63’ | produced by Društvo prijatelja prirodnih ljepota Slunja i Rastoka | co-produced by Aning Film | [email protected] in post-production

10 new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 croatian audiovisual centre croatian audiovisual centre new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 11 croatian minority EXPERI co- productions: MENTAL iIsland Labudović Reels FEATURE Accidental Luxuriance of the Slice iOtok Dosje Labudović Translucent Watery Rebus Kriška

• directed by Miha Čelar • directed by Mila Turajlić Slučajna raskoš prozirnog vodenog • directed by Siniša Labrović rebusa An interactive multimedia project about Mate Dolenc, an An archival road trip with Stevan Labudović, cameraman Slice is a 24-hour long film that shows 24 city stories in FEATURE • directed by Dalibor Barić ageing Slovenian writer who returns to the island of Biševo to Yugoslav President Tito and the cinematic eye of the 24 shots. Each story is precisely one hour long, taken in a after four years to write his final novel. But the island is Algerian revolution. The film explores the role of cinema in single continuous shot. dying under the onslaught of the booming tourism industry, Third World liberation struggles and reconstructs the birth of Martin tried to fight the system, and now he's on the run. Sara — DOCUM so Mate teams up with a young couple to save the it. the Non-Aligned Movement. is a conceptual artist. Together they join a revolutionary com- hr | 2020 | 1440' | produced by Zebra | [email protected] — — mune in the countryside, with the police on their trail. Inspec- finished – not yet released si, hr, it | 2019 | 93' | produced by Astral Films (si) | co-produced by rs, fr, me, hr, qa | 11/2020 | 90' | produced by Dribbling Pictures (rs) tor Ambroz knows the right questions are more important Factum (hr), Quasar Multimedia (it) | [email protected] | ZagrebDox co-produced by Survivance (fr), Kino (me), Restart (hr) than the answers. Because maybe none of this is true. ENTARY 2019; One World International Human Rights ff 2019 [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] — in post-production hr | 2020 | 80' | drama, mystery | produced by Kaos [email protected], [email protected] | Annecy iaff 2020

SHORT FICTI The Lions of Lissa No Man Is an Island Paper Boats Floating into the ON FILM 6’ An Arrangement I leoni di Lissa Septembarska klasa Fragrant Night • directed by Nikica Zdunić Dogovor

Lavovi Visa Rujanska klasa Dok plove brodovi od papira u neku Six scenes, six shots, and six colours combine to form an • directed by Filip Lozić zanosnu noć • I plove brodovi od endless amount of thoughts and ideas that flash through • directed by Nicolo Bongiorno • directed by Igor Šterk papira u neku zanosnu noć the protagonist’s mind when she finds out she’s pregnant, Željko and Anita are a seemingly harmonious couple. He and as she faces her family, friends, boyfriend, and herself. works from home, while she works in real estate and is The film is inspired by the historic (1866), the first A story about a group of people who served in the Yugoslav • directed by Biljana Tutorov — absent a lot. One evening, Željko surprises Anita with a major naval battle involving ironclad . The , National Army only a few years before the start of the hr | 10/2020 | 14' | drama | produced by Academy of Dramatic Art dinner, but she’s acting strangely. In the middle of dinner, a meeting point of different nations and cultures, is home and Yugoslav Wars. Thirty years later, ten former soldiers come The film offers extraordinary insight into the intimacy of the (Zagreb) | [email protected] | in post-production Anita receives a phone call and has to head back to work. final resting place of many heroes. Leading deep-sea divers and together. They all belong to different nationalities – from creative process. Darko Rundek, iconic ex-Yugoslav poet — underwater archaeologists lead the search for the wreck of the Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Montenegro. Their stories show and musician, has lived in Paris for the past 25 years, where hr | 2019 | 17'23" | drama | produced by Mohikanac once legendary flagship of the Italian fleet, Re d’Italia. in a subtle way why the was inevitable. he sings about man’s eternal quest for meaning alongside [email protected], [email protected] — — his Cargo Orchestra composed of immigrants. Mediterranean ff Split 2019; Postira Seaside ff 2019 it, hr | 2019 | 76' | produced by Allegria Films (it) | co-produced by Pari si, hr, rs | 2020 | 77'54" | produced by a.a.c. productions (si) — pikule (it) | [email protected], [email protected] | Arkhaios Cultural co-produced by rtv Slo (si), Gustav film (si), 100doo (si), rs, fr, se, hr | 7/2020 | 80' | produced by Wake Up Films (rs), Mille et Heritage and Archaeology ff 2019 – Best Underwater Archaeology Film; Spiritus Movens Production (hr), Gabisof (rs) | [email protected], Une (fr) | co-produced by svt (se), Factum (hr) | [email protected], Rassegna Licodia Eubea 2019 – Audience Award [email protected] | finished – not yet released [email protected] | in post-production

Speak So I Can See You Tales from a Prison Cell War is Over During Roland Garros Egon and the Hole Elephant’s Graveyard Govori da bih te video Mesék a zárkából • Priče iz Rat je gotov Dok je trajao Roland Garros Egon i rupa Groblje slonova

• directed by Marija Stojnić zatvorske ćelije • directed by Stefano Obino • directed by Snježana Tribuson • directed by Zdenko Bašić • directed by Filip Mojzeš

The story explores various soundscapes of Radio Belgrade, • directed by Ábel Visky The end of war is not the actual end. Even when presidents and Vjera lives in a small Mediterranean town with her husband An introverted boy loses his ability to speak, so he Mother and son spend a day together. A series of events one of Europe’s oldest radio stations and the only Serbian heads of states announce victory, and the media are shouting and two children, conforming to traditional roles dominant in establishes his own communication with the world will change their relationship forever. station that still broadcasts cultural, scientific, art and drama Can imagination set you free? Three imprisoned fathers write fairy peace from the front pages, the war remains chained to the their surroundings. Her mother-in-law’s funeral, their family through a miniature black hole that forms in a barn behind — programming. Through a synesthetic experience of words, tales for their kids that will be turned into short films at a prison country and its citizens. Ruins, dust, destroyed and abandoned rituals, and a visit from her brother-in-law Petar, noticeably his house. The hole represents the boy’s feelings and hr | 2019 | 13’ | drama | produced by Academy of Dramatic Art (Zagreb) sounds, music, silence and light, the film pulls us into the workshop. Awkward, yet full of tenderness, these films show how cities are visible wounds that hide the invisible scars on people’s different from her patriarchal husband, awaken long- symbolises the transcendent possibility of their weight. [email protected], [email protected] world of radiophony and the people behind the programme. much prison can affect the lives of families, and how imaginary worlds souls. This film is a representation of the universal resistance of supressed feelings in Vjera. The film is based on a short — Sarajevo ff 2019 – Student Competition; Martovski Festival – Belgrade dsff 2020 — can build bridges and help people reconnect. the human spirit, capable of rising above destruction and death. story by Tanja Mravak. hr | 7/2020 | 22’ | sci-fi | produced by Švenk | [email protected] rs, hr, qa | 2019 | 73' | produced by Bilboke (rs) | co-produced by — — — in post-production Set Sails Films (rs), Restart (hr) | int'l sales Square Eyes hu, hr, uk | 2020 | 84' | produced by Proton Cinema (hu) | co-produced by Fade de, hr | 7/2020 | 74' | produced by Stefano Obino Productions (de) hr | 2019 | 21’ | drama | produced by Kinorama | [email protected] [email protected], [email protected] | idfa 2019 – In (hr), Taskovski Films (uk), Arizona mps (hu) | int'l sales Taskovski Films office@| co-produced by Jaako dobra produkcija (hr) | [email protected], Mediterranean ff Split 2019 – Audience Award; Olhares do Mediterrâneo Competition for First Appearance protoncinema.hu, [email protected], [email protected] | fipadoc – idff 2020 [email protected] | in post-production – Women’s ff 2019

12 new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 croatian audiovisual centre croatian audiovisual centre new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 13 You regularly use amateur actors in your films. What is it that draws you toward this type of acting? Mate Ugrin The decision to work with amateur actors has more to do with the context of the region than my everything ahead directorial preferences. There are very few drama schools here. Consequently, there aren’t many actors with formal education. Thus limited, I made the decision to employ amateur actors, which gives In his latest short film, Mate Ugrin presents us with me a larger focus group to choose from when a portrait of a young seasonal worker on a Croatian casting specific roles. Emil The Flood Following… island, using the dynamics between the individual, Potop Slijedi… society and the changing landscape to touch on the The main relationship in the film is between • directed by Neda Radić topics of economic necessity and isolation. a girl and an older woman, told in two parts, • directed by Kristijan Krajnčan • directed by Karla Lulić Everything Ahead divided by seasons of the year. May we say Twelve-year-old Emil is completely fascinated by his Sve što dolazi Your previous film, Vacant Hours, was that, in a way, this is a film about life cycles? mother’s younger boyfriend Dino and tries to emulate Following his father’s year-long absence, the son attempts The City of Zagreb in a world with no water. In a building about migrant workers. Everything Ahead The character of Mrs Marta primarily serves to him in every way. But one night, after Emil witnesses to reconcile with him on a solitary trip to their family where four old women live on four different floors, in • directed by Mate Ugrin continues on that road in a way, focusing on highlight the loneliness and alienation in the Dino rape his mother Renata, he decides to take revenge mountain hut. The harder the son tries, the more distant isolation and fear from each other, a white cat appears, seasonal work in Croatia. protagonist Branka’s new life surroundings. against his former idol. his father becomes. When sunny weather suddenly turns leaving behind wet paw prints. The women decide to follow Branka is a young caretaker who moves to an island Unfortunately, the current economic and political Through the change of seasons, I wanted to stress — to heavy rain, the son fears that his father might have the cat to the water source. But first they have to conquer to look after an elderly woman. After the harsh winter situation in Croatia makes mass tourism practically the protagonist’s precarious existence, which is hr, fr | 2020 | 15'35'' | drama | produced by Metar 60 (hr) something to do with the change in weather. their fear and unite. is over and her job is finished, Branka decides to the country’s only major industry. Apart from manifested through odd jobs and the inability to co-produced by Origine films (fr) | int'l sales Origine films — — stay on the island for the summer season and gets negative effect on the environment, sustainable plan her life. [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] si, hr | 2019 | 15' | drama | produced by EnaBanda (si) hr | 2020 | 12’30’’ | comedy | produced by Dobar film a job in tourism. The pay is meagre and the work development and distribution of resources in society, finished – not yet released co-produced by rtv Slovenija (si), Eclectica (hr), mb Grip (si), Studio co-produced by Interfilm, Poster | [email protected], [email protected] exhausting, making it just a temporary solution. mass tourism also creates precarious seasonal work. 100 (si) | [email protected], [email protected] | Thessaloniki iff 2019; finished – not yet released — Such jobs is most often characterised by temporary Clermont-Ferrand isff 2020; Martovski Festival – Belgrade dsff 2020 hr, fr | 2020 | 24'14'' | drama | produced by Dinaridi film (hr) dislocation of workers, low income and difficulties in co-produced by Vertical Production (fr) | [email protected], integrating seasonal workers into local communities. [email protected] | finished – not yet released The poor economic situation forces many people from less developed regions into this type of work.

Fragile Hangar 8 Hearts of Stone Krhko Kamena Srca • directed by Ratimir Rakuljić • directed by Tomislav Šoban • directed by Tom Van Avermae In mid-1990s Croatia, two friends enter Hangar 8, a Alma, a young actress, goes through several acting televised console gaming championship. One of them has In the heart of a busy metropolis, Paula, a lonely street rehearsals and projects as she’s looking for an apartment, set his goal higher. Rather than just win a trophy, he hopes artist entertains people as a live statue. She yearns for while her best friend is moving away to . to impress the girl he likes. Agata, a stone sculpture she is in love with and near which — — she performs every day. Paula leads a double life – the hr | 2019 | 23’ | drama | produced by Academy of Dramatic Art (Zagreb) hr | 2019 | 36' | sci-fi, for children | produced by 3d2d Animatori character of her statue is a popular online persona, the [email protected], [email protected] | Zagreb ff 2019 co-produced by Hommage | [email protected] | Motovun ff 2019 complete opposite to her real, lonely life. — be, hr | 10/2020 | 20' | romantic drama | produced by Bulletproof Cupid (be) co-produced by Jaako dobra produkcija (hr) | [email protected], [email protected] | in post-production

I’m Not Telling You It’s Just an Expression Labour Day Waltz Anything, Just Sayin’ To se sam tak kaže Valcer za 1. maj

Ništa ja tebi ne govorim, samo kažem • directed by Hana Veček • directed by Zoran Stojkovski • directed by Sanja Milardović On Shrove Tuesday three children – 10-year-old Domi, Two middle-aged friends go to a summer house on the day Zrinka returns to her hometown for a few days to do some his 7-year-old friend Mirna, and her 4-year-old sister before Labour Day to prepare for next day’s barbecue with location scouting. She stays at her mother Tanja's place. Verica – go trick-or-treating in a large building. As they friends. The two of them seldom see each other. Momo left Tanja's behaviour seems strange, so Zrinka takes her location go from apartment to apartment, they experience many the village, while Borko would call it running away. As Borko scouting in order to find out what is troubling her. In the end, shut doors and some interesting encounters. Along the insists on retelling stories from the past, Momo is having Tanja's emotional breakdown brings the two closer together. way, we discover the motives behind their little spree. fun, testing the limits of tolerance of the other guests. — — — hr | 7/2020 | 17'41'' | drama, comedy | produced by Castor multimedia hr | 2020 | 11’ | drama, family | produced by 15 Art hr | 2019 | 17’ | drama | produced by Academy of Dramatic Art (Zagreb) [email protected] | in post-production [email protected] | finished – not yet released [email protected] | Zagreb ff 2019

14 new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 croatian audiovisual centre croatian audiovisual centre new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 15 The Lamb Lurch Marko The Stamp Summer Fruits Tina Janje Skretanje Južno voće • directed by Marko Šantić • directed by Lovro Mrđen • directed by Dubravka Turić • directed by Nina Violić • directed by Jasna Nanut, Čejen Černić, Judita Gamulin • directed by Josip Lukić Marko and Ankica never got over the death of their only The clock is ticking for a foreigner, an immigrant faced with Zagreb, the last days of the year. In an old apartment, where Twelve-year-old bffs, Cvita and Megi, go hang out with Dan, In this short omnibus, three directors of different generations child, Ante, in the war. When their neighbour Stipe suggests the cold-blooded bureaucracy of a foreign country, as he Summer fruits are refreshing but high temperatures can every object belongs to the past, Tina is trying to revive family an older friend from school who promises them a great direct their respective female characters, showing different renting their son’s room to tourists, Marko feels insulted but tries to prove he is related to his younger sister and prevent make them go bad. customs. As New Year’s Eve approaches, the festivities and time. Dan takes them to a simple, run-down apartment of aspects of a car accident which, alongside the victim’s, Ankica manages to talk him into it. Renting rooms is easy them from being separated. Nobody hears them, their — fireworks keep intruding into her private space. an ordinary building in a typical city neighbourhood. What irreversibly changes their lives as well. money, especially for retired people, but having an unknown voices lost in translation. hr | 2019 | 19'53" | drama | produced by Academy of Dramatic Art (Zagreb) — seems to be harmless fun, however, may quickly turn into a — man sleeping in his son’s bed troubles Marko. — [email protected] | Zagreb ff 2019 — Special Mention hr | 2019 | 14' | drama | produced by Zagreb film (hr) | int'l sales matter of life and death. hr | 7/2020 | 15' | drama | produced by Academy of Dramatic Art (Zagreb) — hr, be | 2019 | 17' | drama | produced by Academy of Dramatic Art in Varicoloured | [email protected], [email protected] | Go Short — [email protected] | in post-production hr, rs, fr, si | 2020 | 16'45'' | drama | produced by Jaka produkcija (si) Zagreb (hr) | co-produced by luca School of Arts – Campus narafi – isff Nijmegen 2019; filmfest isff Dresden 2019; Sarajevo ff 2019; Film (be) | [email protected], [email protected] | Dhaka CinEast 2019 hr | 2019 | 15' | drama | produced by Spiritus Movens Production co-produced by Filmart (rs), Hippocampe productions (fr), Invida (si) iff 2019 – Best Short Film; Lift-Off iff 2019; Youth ff Sarajevo 2019 – [email protected], [email protected] [email protected] | finished – not yet released Co-production Award bfi London ff 2019 – Push the Button; Tallinn Black Nights ff 2019

SHORT DOCUM

Municipal Waste Nothing The Rudeness of The Anonymous Shoal Balm on the Wounds Antiotpad Ništa a German Lady ENTARY Anonimno jato Melem na rane

• directed by Tin Žanić • directed by Stanislav Tomić Njemački inat • directed by Branko Ištvančić • directed by Anton Mezulić • directed by Silva Ćapin Pale is an arsonist spending his summer in the Zagreb heat. Two morticians prank a scientist trying to hitch a ride in A shoal of fish moves based on three principles: the fish Dino and Zorana are married. Although made fragile by He wanders around, making Instagram stories. When he their hearse. He gives them a black spot. Soon, strange Under the burning sun, beachgoers are trying to take swim next to each other, closing ranks, careful not to traumatic experiences, together they make a balanced sets fire to somebody’s car, two guys beat him up and take things start happening. When a corpse disappears, the advantage of every minute of their paid trip to a desolate collide. But if there is a disturbance in the shoal, the rules union that keeps learning how to heal wounds with his phone. two men embark on a search leading them to an institute beach. Among them are a mother with her grown son, two break down and the shoal disperses. During an August trust and warmth. Balm on the Wounds shows how this — where they will find more questions than answers. ladies and their dog, a passive-aggressive married couple, day in Dubrovnik, we observe the people walking its extraordinary couple finds the strength to let go of their hr | 2020 | 18’ | drama | produced by Dinaridi Film | [email protected] — loud Italians, happy Hungarians and an overweight, possibly streets, amidst the harmony and the contradictions of the childhood burden. finished – not yet released hr | 2020 | 20’ | film noir | produced by Manevar dead, German lady. city, as they become an aquarium of sorts, recorded by the — co-produced by Alka film | [email protected] — camera's eye. hr | 2020 | 37' | produced by Academy of Dramatic Art (Zagreb) finished – not yet released hr, hu | 2020 | 15’ | satire | produced by Eclectica (hr) — [email protected] | finished – not yet released co-produced by Speak Easy Project (hu) | [email protected] hr | 2020 | 19' | produced by Metafizika | [email protected] Trieste ff 2020 finished – not yet released

Sedra Snitch Soft Creatures Ben's Cut Camino Catstream Druker Mekana bića Benov rez • directed by Judita Gamulin • directed by Tomislav Krnić • directed by Sunčica Ana Veldić • directed by Rino Barbir • directed by Ivana Škrabalo • directed by Vida Žagar A young family of four goes for an outing on an island. Nine perfect strangers of different nationalities, ages, Cat rescue volunteer Mirna Kirin goes to the island of Mljet Despite the perfect weather, this seemingly harmonious Deni is a teenager eager to emulate the lives of his rap idols, Nena recently started working as a school assistant to What does it look like when a completely free author religions, interests, and desires come together on the in an effort to neuter local cats. In only seven days, she family quickly reveals its toxicity. The unhealthy relations but he is still a mama’s boy. In an attempt to prove himself seven-year-old Dejan, a kid with a learning disability. It’s one creates their own universe? Ben's Cut is a short comedy pilgrimage on the way of St. James in Spain. They begin catches dozens of cats. Her Don Quixotesque struggle, affect all the members, and the youngest seem to have to Kelam, a classroom colleague and school bully, Deni of Nena’s first grown-up jobs and Dejan is a tough cookie, about such an author. Benjamin is 7 years old. He doesn't their journeys in different countries and cross distances both with the cats and the islanders, intensifies as they already drifted away. What is it that keeps them together? commits a petty crime. When the police arrive to his home, so every day presents a new challenge for both of them. know terms like dramaturgy, screenwriting or set design. of almost 800 km over three snow-covered mountains to often refuse to collaborate, and her attempts to explain the And who suffers the most? Deni is ready to confess, but his mother has other plans. Apart from that, Nena also has to struggle with the rigid What he knows is to observe and absorb. His imagination arrive to Santiago de Compostela in the spring. reasons for her actions cause her a nervous breakdown. — — school system. has no limits or rules. He is here and he creates. And he — — hr | 2019 | 15’ | drama | produced by Eclectica | [email protected] hr | 2019 | 19’ | drama | produced by Blank | co-produced by Kino klub — brings cheerfulness to everyone around him. hr | 9/2020 | 45' | produced by Wolfgang i Dolly hr | 2020 | 19’ | produced by Dinaridi Film | [email protected], Zagreb ff 2019 Split | Zagreb ff 2019 – Best Film in the Checkers Program hr | 2020 | 18'43'' | drama | produced by Dinaridi Film | [email protected] — [email protected] | in post-production [email protected] | finished – not yet released finished – not yet released hr | 2020 | 4' | produced by self-produced | [email protected] Corona sff 2020

16 new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 croatian audiovisual centre croatian audiovisual centre new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 17 A City Looks for a Murderer Disection 02 Doctor, I’m Going to My Grave Mila Naftalan Obsession Maxo Vanka Osijek – Kopenhagen, Disekcija 02 Doktorice, pem v’ grobeka Baba u naftalanu Opsesija Vanka • directed by Karlo Vorih grad traži ubojicu • directed by Bojan Gagić • directed by Nikolina Barić • directed by Ljubica Kotromanović • directed by Branko Ivanda After her traumatic childhood, Mila follows her mother to Stuttgart • directed by Ivan Faktor A series of video portraits showing the relationship between The director follows her mother's small gp practice and her to find a job and turn a new page in life. The film introduces us to The director follows her grandmother, who is being treated A series of mysteries and mystical coincidences that cannot be the sound of a child's heartbeats and the City of Zagreb as struggle in the failing Croatian health system. With steady Mila's life. Her testimonies are full of reflections about the past, for psoriasis at Naftalan specialty hospital. While she waits incidental. In the museum archives, an art historian discovers In the spring of 1992, multimedia artist Ivan Faktor travels a map of ‘happy places.’ increase in the number of patients and available doctors in unhappy relationships, and family problems. impatiently for her husband to come and take her home, her days the letters of Maksimilijan Vanka, a long forgotten Croatian from war-struck Osijek to Copenhagen. To inform Danes — the system in steady decline, everybody is reaching their — all have the same routine: naphthalene baths, pool gym, blood painter, and identifies strongly with him. Will his letters meet of the ongoing war, his team appears on stop tv, the most hr | 2020 | 20’ | produced by Zebra Creative Network breaking point. hr | 2020 | 32' | produced by Academy of Dramatic Art (Zagreb) pressure measuring. the historian’s high expectations and help her gain insight into important independent tv station in . Faktor films [email protected], [email protected] | finished – not yet released — co-produced by Blank | [email protected] — the life of the artist who led a very private life? the entire trip, his travel companions, the tv appearance, hr | 2020 | 41’ | produced by Nikolina Barić j.d.o.o. finished – not yet released hr | 2019 | 14' | produced by Academy of Dramatic Art (Zagreb) — conversations on art and war, friends they visit, meeting his [email protected] | finished – not yet released [email protected] | CineDays 2019; CineMAiubit 2019 hr, us | 10/2020 | 52' | produced by Ars septima (hr) | co-produced by wife and son, and their return. – seec Award Crows Run Pictures (us) | [email protected] | in post-production — hr | 2020 | 20'8'' | produced by Mitropa | [email protected] finished – not yet released

Donkey Music Faceless The Invisible City – One of Us Osjekana Oxygen Nitrogen Tovareća Bez lica La Materia Non Conta Jedna od nas Kisik dušik • directed by Ivica Šuto • directed by Karolina Malinowska • directed by David Lušičić Nevidljivi grad • directed by Đuro Gavran • directed by Damir Čučić • directed by Pierre Commault Osijek has long been the cultural centre of eastern Croatia, Every summer on a distant Croatian island, a parade of A short documentary essay that follows the installation of The film follows the reactions of a community to a even in war time. But the city seems to have lost its culture There are films that could have been made, but never young men occupies the village for several days. While a monument to the first Croatian president, just before its Inspired by the occupation of Rijeka by the Italian poet disclosure about childhood sexual abuse. It centers along the way. What happened to that pre-war vibe and the were. There are scripts, elaborations, and filmed materials, they blow the ox horns and strike up rhythm with metal iron unveiling. The film brings out critical social context showing D'Annunzio in the aftermath of the Great War, The Invisible around a high school reunion. As former classmates talk people who used to be the pillars of Osijek’s cultural scene? but some films have simply never been screened. Oxygen bars, we sail with them through hell and dive with them into the citizen's protests and police corridors protecting this City is a colourful essay film that tells a tale of extreme about work, children, school jokes, and past mischief, The film explores this loss of identity as seen by the man Nitrogen is a composition made up of 11 unfinished films. It the sea, only to re-emerge among the living in the parade’s piece of sculpture from human presence. violence, in a gentle manner and through the eyes of the conversations turn to those who did not come to the who was always part of it, and is still trying to be. is an experiment with the remains of filmed material and the grand finale. — 'ordinary' people. reunion, one of whom had made a shocking confession. — remains of life, in which the lead character takes over the — hr | 2020 | 14'10" | produced by Zebra Creative Network, Academy of — — hr | 2020 | 20’ | produced by U svom filmu | [email protected] identity of others. hr | 7/2020 | 15’ | produced by Filmaparat Dramatic Art (Zagreb) | [email protected] | finished – not yet released hr | 2020 | 44' | produced by Filmaktiv | [email protected] hr | 2020 | 52’ | produced by Pipser | [email protected] finished – not yet released — [email protected] | in post-production finished – not yet released hr | 2020 | 45’ | produced by Gate film | [email protected] finished – not yet released

Ivan Delimar’s May Your Soul Rest Insured Men Should Be Trusted Peaceful Glide Person Serenade to the Wind Ropemaking Workshop Za let si dušo sigurna Treba vjerovati muškarcima Tihi let Osoba Serenada vjetru

Užarska radionica Ivana Delimara • directed by Ante Mitrović • directed by Morana Ikić Komljenović • directed by Sandi Novak • directed by Sunčica Ana Veldić • directed by Sanela Bajrić • directed by Vlasta Delimar The film follows the daily routine of five officials at a funeral They say art is inseparable from life. Likewise, they say that life White-headed griffon vultures are the only surviving species During a solitary evening, the director amuses herself by In 1937, the opera La Serenata al Vento, composed by Aldo The film follows the process of burying the workshop of company as they go about their business and communicate with is – love. Are we all shaped by the relationships we choose? of griffons in Croatia, inhabiting the Kvarner islands of the filming a panoramic view. The viewfinder in her camera Finzi, won the contest held by La Scala in Milan. But Finzi Croatian artist Vlasta Delimar’s father Ivan on their estate, their clients in a nonchalant atmosphere. It aims to lay bare the Are we conditioned by the men and women we fall in love North Adriatic. Griffons that survive their first flight emigrate catches an interesting sight. was a Jew, and racial laws were to be enacted in a few the legendary site of Vlasta’s art festival. Her father had mediatory relationship between contemporary society and our with? A story about Croatian conceptual artist Vlasta Delimar, that same year. After four years they return, a feat that only — months, so the contest was nullified. Aldo Finzi passed once said, “When I die, bury me on my estate, under the deceased, led by the market law of supply and demand. her art, and artistic experience, told from the perspective of her one in every ten griffons accomplishes. Their only natural hr | 2020 | 5' | produced by Anahonda film | [email protected] away without seeing his opera on stage. Seventy-five years alder, by the workshop.” As it is prohibited to bury human — emotional and romantic relationships with men. enemy is man, who is also their only chance at survival. Corona sff 2020 after the contest, it is finally brought to life. remains in one’s own yard, Vlasta buried her father’s hr | 7/2020 | 28'45'' | produced by Academy of Dramatic Art (Zagreb) — — — workshop on the property instead. [email protected], [email protected] | in post-production hr | 2020 | 58' | produced by Fade In | co-produced by Zagreb film hr | 2020 | 50’ | produced by Vizije s.f.t. | [email protected] hr, it | 2020 | 56’ | produced by Imago 21 | [email protected] — int'l sales Little Red Dot | [email protected] | finished – not yet released finished – not yet released Philadelphia Independent ff 2020 hr | 2020 | 20’ | produced by Udruga Domino [email protected] | finished – not yet released

18 new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 croatian audiovisual centre croatian audiovisual centre new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 19 Slow Dance for Past Lovers Split Screens Tijat Black Wolf, White Wolf Bora Cleithro Sentiš Crni vuk, bijeli vuk Bura • directed by Bruno Pavić • directed by Zlatko Krilić • directed by Morana Bunić • directed by Sana Perić • directed by Ivana Guljašević Kuman • directed by Neven Petričić An essay documentary about the Mediterranean city of Split. The Tijat, built in 1955, is the oldest passenger ship on the A man tries to go on vacation, but gets trapped in his Slow Dance for Past Lovers is a self-portrait of the The film focuses on two symbols of the city – its patron saint, Adriatic. The film is conceived as a portrait of the Tijat as Two wolves, one good and one bad, fight for power in each Thick clouds whirl across the sky and cover the moon. Bora bathroom instead. filmmaker, focusing on a subject all of us can relate to – Saint Domnius, and his executioner and the founder of the city, shown through the rich vistas it provides and the melodies of us. The one we feed wins. blows violently against stone walls. — love. It has occupied the filmmaker with equal intensity Roman emperor Diocletian. The film juxtaposes the festivities that surround it. Tijat is an interview with the ship through — — hr | 2020 | 5'42" | produced by Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb since early youth to the present. What do her near and dear celebrating these two figures, thus exploring the uniquely dual the four seasons. hr | 2020 | 5' | produced by Igubuka | [email protected] hr | 9/2020 | 4' | produced by 3d2d Animatori | [email protected] [email protected] | finished – not yet released ones think? Is there hope? identity of the city where the victim and his persecutor are — finished – not yet released in post-production — honoured equally among the people. hr | 10/2020 | 30’ | produced by Manevar | [email protected] hr | 2019 | 11' | produced by Restart – School of Documentary Film — in post-production int'l sales Restart Label | [email protected], [email protected] hr | 2020 | 35' | produced by Dramski studio Ilirik | [email protected] finished – not yet released

SHORT ANIMA

Vacant Hours The Adventures of Gloria Dislocation Epistaxis Events Meant to Be Forgotten Prazni sati TEDFILM Scott – Murder in the Dislokacije Događaji za zaboraviti • directed by David Peroš Bonnot • directed by Mate Ugrin Cathedral • Pustolovine Glorije • directed by Veljko Popović, Milivoj Popović • directed by Marko Tadić Scott – Umorstvo u katedrali This is a story about second chances. It is left to the viewer Migrant shipyard workers on the Adriatic coast spend their Dislocation – enforced departure of people from their to interpret the events – was the protagonist successful or Filmed on 16mm, this film uses archival materials and a daily routine in their dormitory. In the evening, one of them • directed by Tvrtko Rašpolić, Matija Pisačić homes, minds, and everyday lives due to cataclysmic events. were his efforts in vain? poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger to speak of forgotten visits a nearby town. This film takes a look at an absurd moment of disbelief and — people, their lives and their deeds. Two archival photographs — The early 20th century London. Famous detective Gloria fear. It examines the internal processes that take place and hr | 12/2020 | 12' | produced by Filozirka | [email protected] were found on a fleamarket in the City of Zagreb. One de, hr | 2019 | 11' | experimental documentary | produced by Scott and her faithful companion Mary Lambert are offers a visual depiction of a person forced into extreme in post-production showing a famous architect and the other a famous University of the Arts (de) | co-produced by Dinaridi film (hr) spending a quiet evening in their office. Then, an unknown circumstances. composer. The film ponders on this occurrence, as well as [email protected], [email protected] | Awards25 fps – International murderer kills professor Jansen at their doorstep. A new — on the vanishing and forgetfulness of humans. Experimental Film and Video Festival 2019; Human Rights Film Festival 2019 adventure awaits them. hr, fr | 2020 | 7'45" | xr film | produced by Prime Render (hr) — — co-produced by Bagan films (fr) | int'l sales Bonobostudio hr | 2020 | 6' | produced by Kreativni sindikat | co-produced by hr, rs | 2020 | 15’39’’ | produced by Kinematograf (hr) | co-produced by [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Zagreb film | [email protected] | finished – not yet released Papa Films (rs) | [email protected], [email protected] finished – not yet released Annecy iaff 2020

All Those Sensations Allergy Pills Arka The Final Nail in the Coffin Fox & Stork Growing Up Dreams in my Belly Kap koja je prelila čašu Lisica i roda San o odrastanju • directed by Daniel Damm • directed by Natko Stipaničev Sve te senzacije u mom trbuhu • directed by Stella Hartman • directed by Maja Zdelar • directed by Mirela Ivanković Bielen • directed by Marko Dješka Ylva goes through life loving everything, but her allergies A grandiose transoceanic cruise ship sailing the seas. are getting in the way of her existence. — One’s morning idyll can easily be disturbed. Crowded city Don't be angry, my friend! I honour you as much as you In order to get somewhere, one must choose a certain path. As she undergoes male-to-female transition, Matija — hr | 2020 | 14'40" | produced by Kreativni sindikat streets, advertisements, unreliable appliances and drones have honoured me. That path is not always linear. struggles with finding a genuine intimate relationship hr, se | 2019 | 0'40" | produced by Damm it! (hr) | [email protected] int'l sales Bonobostudio | [email protected], will certainly do the trick. What was the final nail in the — — with a heterosexual man. [email protected] | Annecy iaff 2020 coffin for one ordinary man who just wanted to enjoy his hr | 9/2020 | 4’ | produced by 3d2d Animatori | [email protected] hr | 7/2020 | 7’ | produced by Luma film | [email protected] — morning? in post-production in post-production hr, pt | 9/2020 | 13'3" | produced by Jadranska animacija — / Adriatic Animation | co-produced by bap studio (pt) hr | 2020 | 3'33" | produced by Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb [email protected] | in post-production [email protected] | finished – not yet released

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The ability of creative self-expression and transformation Hedgehog Spikiney Height How Much for the Exam? plays a great role in the human drive toward art. Animator Jež Bodljikavko Visina Pošto ispit? and director Lucija Bužančić combines these motifs into a tale of a young woman in search of self-realisation. • directed by Tihoni Brčić • directed by Sanja Šantak • directed by Ivica Valentić

What made you decide on this topic? Spikiney is a hardworking and selfless hedgehog who runs The film deals with loss and our coping mechanisms. It asks Copyman, an evil computer genius and a member of the A number of circumstances got me to writing Iris. I’d done a soup kitchen for his community. One winter night the food whether we really want to be free of frustrations, when they new technological aristocracy, organises a university exam some similar stylised illustrations I wanted to animate. Apart vanishes, endangering their existence. Spikiney’s friends become our primary driving force. We seem to be willing to fraud. The night before the exam, Librophileas, an ancient from that, I wanted to do a story whose subject and object – an old monkey with a cane, an orphan squirrel, a strayed trade our freedom for this obsession, while everything else mystical being, visits the professor in his sleep. was one and the same person. Then I wanted to make a bird and a beaver with a rubber flipper for a tail – all bravely passes us by. Is it a question of human character, or does — movie that doesn’t show characters but only their reflections join him in the quest to find the stolen food. nature simply find its way? hr | 10/2020 | 30' | produced by ezop | [email protected] in the environment. Gradually, the theme of Narcissus — — in post-production imposed itself, so I decided to just go along with it. I wasn’t hr | 2020 | 6’47’’ | produced by Zagreb film | [email protected] hr | 7/2020 | 5’ | produced by Filozirka | [email protected] particularly invested in the figure of Narcissus, so I told the in post-production story from the perspective of a good, pretty, smart girl, and perhaps a bit difficult.

Readings of the myth of Narcissus often interpret his disappearance as punishment for his self-love. How would you compare the fate of your protagonist? It is difficult to tackle the myth of Narcissus and avoid all the moralising. Psychoanalysis gave us the term narcissism, and along with it an understanding of the myth as Narcissus getting his just desserts. The interpretations changed over time. In the renaissance the myth was understood as the discovery of painting, and I liked that. According to that perspective, Narcissus was the first person to appreciate art, preferring a picture on the surface to an actual person (we should mention that he’d had numerous courters in various versions of the myth). Iris is a girl who discovers an image, realises there is nothing special about it, and unplugs I'm Not Feeling Very Well Iris Let's Play a Story: The Miser the bath so her reflection vanishes down the drain, the Igramo se priče: Škrtac end. Narration that implies that Iris is telling her own story • directed by Sunčana Brkulj • directed by Lucija Bužančić in the third person falls apart when the option to choose a • directed by Marina Andree Škop different person opens up. She no longer needs to be an Singing Skeletons dream about breaking free from A short animated film, inspired by the Greek myth object, nor her fate a fatal one. their geometric formation, and taking a swim in the of Narcissus, about a vain young girl named Iris who Six-year-old Irma and her father love to play different great blue sea. falls in love with her own image, until one day she stories. As they play, they inhabit the animated worlds of Could you tell us more about your choice of — disappears in a bathtub. their imagination. animation technique? hr | 2019 | 3'32" | produced by Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb — — The visuals are a combination of lines and blots. The line [email protected] | Annecy iaff 2020 hr | 2020 | 8’14’’ | drama | produced by Zagreb film hr | 2020 | 7'42" | produced by Studio dim | [email protected] is animated classically, with digital 2d animation, while the [email protected], [email protected] finished – not yet released blot is animated under the lens, by dripping watercolours onto paper. The lines follow narration, and the blot is more connected to sound. The blots and sound are fragmentary, their role associative. They are the only link this film has to Greek myth, water, a pond, or lake. By the end of the film the blots fill the entire screen, becoming classically animated like the line, and the sounds assigned to each individual blot combine into a musical theme.

Microcassette – The Smallest Pet Planet Portraitist of the Dead Cassette I’ve Ever Seen Planet ljubimac Portretist mrtvih

Mikrokazeta – najmanja kazeta • directed by Ratimir Rakuljić • directed by Matija Pisačić koju sam ikad vidio Pet Planet is the best toy you’ve never had! Once A solitary man lives in a dilapidated house in a desert. He is • directed by Igor Bezinović, Ivana Pipal unpacked and switched on, it forms an entire living world. a stonemason who carves portraits of the dead onto their Take good care of it and witness the rise of civilizations tombstones. The portraits are ordered by machines on behalf Among the garbage heaps of a big landfill on the island of right on your tabletop. What could possibly go wrong? of a small community of humans living in an industrial city. Lošinj, Zoki uncovers a microcassette. A close study of the — The dead models start haunting the man’s dreams. discarded object serves as a tribute to chance and imagination. hr | 2020 | 4' | produced by Triaxial | [email protected] — — Bristol Science ff 2020 hr | 12/2020 | 10' | produced by Umjetnička organizacija anima hr, rs | 2020 | 19’11’’ | produced by Bonobostudio (hr) [email protected] | in post-production co-produced by Teorija na delu (rs) | int’l sales Bonobostudio [email protected] | finished – not yet released

22 new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 croatian audiovisual centre croatian audiovisual centre new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 23 Real Boy The Role The Room Uloga • directed by Irena Jukić Pranjić • directed by Hrvoje Wächter • directed by Darko Bakliža A young girl is obsessed with James Bond, whom she A one take, first person, animated horror short about a sees as the ideal of masculinity. She projects her idea of There is more than a single person in each of us. We follow woman trapped in a room, hiding from some creature. the perfect man onto the real men she meets, delighting in the protagonist as she tries to find her ‘inner’ body, to get — her own imagination. Careful not to spoil the fantasy with closer to it, set it free, and let it go on without her. hr | 2019 | 4'47" | produced by ghp | [email protected] reality, she denies herself the possibility of experiencing in — real life the romance she so desires. hr | 2020 | 11’ | produced by Zagreb film | [email protected] — hr | 12/2020 | 6'30" | produced by Umjetnička organizacija anima [email protected] | in post-production

Porvenir

• directed by Renata Poljak

Driven by poverty, hunger, and wars, we voyage across the seas, generation after generation, dreaming of better lands. Taximeter and Mild Psychosis Up to the Universe Upon His Image Geography is destiny. Do our bodies retain Taksimetar i osrednje psihoze Do Svemira Na sliku svoju the memories of our grandfathers; are memories of running away in search of • directed by Mihaela Erceg • directed by Tvrtko Karačić • directed by Jakov Piplica better lands imprinted on our bodies? — A student learns the hard way about the dark side of the night On the outskirts of a city, on an unusual hill, lives the The Faceless God dreams up a man, upon whom he hr | 2020 | 12'10" | produced by rea | int'l sales and the advertising tricks based on consumer psychology. Scientist who is searching for the Living Dancing Stars. bestows seven gifts. These gifts serve to tear apart the Bonobostudio | [email protected], — When they appear, the Scientist and his two pigeon friends image of man from the image of God. With the seven gifts, [email protected] | isff Oberhausen 2020 hr | 2019 | 4'22" | produced by Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb fly a rocket into space to meet them. Near the finish line which are in fact the seven deadly sins, the man wakes up [email protected] | International Animation Day 2019 – they encounter problems and the Scientist must decide if to the World... A world in his own likeness. Special Mention for Creativity, Design, and Humor he will follow his dream or return to Earth safely. — — hr | 2020 | 7'13" | produced by Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb hr | 12/2020 | 14’30’’ | produced by Panda Monk [email protected] | Lift-Off Sessions 2020 [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] | in post-production Renata Poljak porvenir

Gallery artist and filmmaker Renata Poljak is known The film is a continuation of the theme of underscore what we are already seeing in the film. for visually striking films whose stories intertwine emigration and human migrations, which you Quite the contrary. The music and sound need the deeply personal and historic with an acute social already addressed in Partenza. Yet, the landscape to offer another reading of the film, but they also awareness. In her latest work, Porvenir, she continues in Porvenir is completely devoid of people. What determine the very narrative of the film and what the SHORT th th to explore the theme of the late 19 and early 20 made you decide on such an approach? film foregrounds. In this case, the process of sound century migrations of people in search of a better life, The situation we encountered on location was partly the processing was very long and included a voice over using the story of a town founded by Croats on the reason for this decision. Porvenir is a very small town which was much, much longer. After it seemed that EXPER other side of the globe, a place that traces back to her consisting of dilapidated little houses. A strong wind we had finished the final version, I finally found a own family history. sweeps across the entire area and there are almost no balance that I thought worked best, which meant people in the street. The tourist guidebooks refer to that we threw out almost the entire voice over, 2x90 Abandoned Path Porvenir in the film’s title is the name of a this part of the globe as ‘the end of the world’ and, after coming up with the right balance between the music IMENT Napušteni put town founded by Croatian emigrants in , travelling for 32 hours, once you land in Punta Arenas and sound design in the two final shots, and the but it also means ‘future’ in Spanish. Does this (the biggest town on the mainland across from the entire film finally came into place. • directed by Vanja Vascarac • directed by Davor Međurečan carry a certain symbolism in the film? island of Tierra del Fuego where Porvenir is situated) ALFILM I like the subtlety of the title, which I do not feel is literal. you understand why that is. In a violent football game, the human body is a delicate and A man is thinking about the war. Terrible images are going Porvenir means the future, while Future as the name of self-destructive machine. trough his head. He is dancing the black ballet with other a town contains within it all the hopes and expectations On several occasions, the film draws associative — protagonists. On an abandoned path, a soldier steps on a of finding a better life and an intense desire for a better links between the human body and geography. The hr | 7/2020 | 8’ | produced by Plan 9 | [email protected] landmine. His last thought is: ‘I've had enough of war, and future. It is also a testament to the fact that those film’s soundscape is very interesting in that regard. in post-production my body is tingling’. people embarked on their journey driven by sheer For me, the background audio is just as important as — poverty and suffering, which adds another layer to the the moving image and how it is edited. I believe that hr | 2020 | 6’27’’ | animated experimental | produced by Kreativni sindikat film, and to me that is very important. the soundtrack should never be descriptive and simply [email protected] | finished – not yet released

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a comprehensive list is available 67th Pula Film Festival 16th 25 FPS Festival on the website: www.havc.hr 18 – 26 July, Pula 24 – 27 September, Zagreb www.pulafilmfestival.hr | [email protected] www.25fps.hr | [email protected] Film festivals are logical partners in promotion Dear Aki MMC Monochromatic Dreams features, shorts shorts (experimental films, artists’ films and and distribution of European and independent videos), expanded cinema performances Dragi Aki Monokromatski snovi cinema. They are a perfect platform for boosting • directed by Darko Bavoljak rd smaller titles, and a useful tool for reaching 23 Motovun Film Festival • directed by Nina Kurtela • directed by Petra Belc th the audiences, especially in the regions that 30 July – 1 August, Motovun 30 World Festival of Animated Film – mmc multimedia centre has become more than a local www.motovunfilmfestival.com Told in the form of a series of fictional letters sent from phenomenon in the city of Rijeka. Its many activities figure Sixteen friends from different parts of the world got an have lost their local cinemas. Here is the list of Nina Kurtela to Aki Kaurismäki, read against the backdrop prominently on the dynamic performance scene in Rijeka. analogue camera, two black and white films, and three some of the most established international film [email protected] 28 September – 3 October, Zagreb of atmospheric exterior shots, Dear Aki is an experimental Apart from independent actions and performances, mmc keywords. In the photographs they took, one former couple festivals in Croatia. features and shorts (fiction, documentary, www.animafest.hr | [email protected] essay on the nature of identity, nationality, and belonging in also organises the Festival of New Art – fona. discovered fragments of their own story. animation) features and shorts (animation) the globalized world. — — Due to the current situation concerning covid-19, — hr | 2020 | 24' | experimental documentary | produced by Art De Facto hr | 2020 | 12’ | produced by Plan 9 | [email protected], the information regarding the dates of the hr | 2020 | 14'13" | produced by Kreativni sindikat | [email protected], [email protected] | finished – not yet released [email protected] | finished – not yet released festivals listed here is subject to change and [email protected] | finished – not yet released contingent on future developments. AUGUST NOVEMBER 14th Film Festival DORF 14th PSSST! Silent Film Festival 18 – 22 August, Primošten 5 – 7 November, Zagreb POSTPONED end of August, Vinkovci festivalnijemogfilma.com/hr th 16 ZagrebDox – International www.filmfestivaldorf.com [email protected] Documentary Film Festival [email protected] feature and shorts, silent only postponed music documentaries www..net | [email protected] 18th features and shorts (documentary) 18th Liburnia Film Festival 8 – 15 November, Zagreb 23 – 28 August, Opatija www.zagrebfilmfestival.com 13th Subversive Film Festival www.liburniafilmfestival.com/en [email protected] postponed until winter [email protected] features, short fiction www.subversivefilmfestival.com feature and short documentaries [email protected]

features and shorts (fiction, documentary) th 14 Vukovar Film Festival – DECEMBER Parallactic Quest to North Scaffold Danube Region Film Fest 18th Human Rights Film Festival Paralaktik Pohod na Sjever Gubilište 26 – 30 August, Vukovar 6 – 13 December, Zagreb/Rijeka JUNE www.vukovarfilmfestival.com www.humanrightsfestival.org • directed by Lovro Čepelak • directed by Igor Juran • directed by Matija Debeljuh 13th Mediterranean Film Festival Split [email protected] [email protected] 2 – 11 June, Split Parallactic finds its standard movie sequence in a new In today’s information age, when physical travel is no A man returns to his hometown after a long absence to visit features and shorts (fiction, features and shorts (fiction, documentary) www.fmfs.hr | [email protected] space and a different time frame. We can say that the film longer necessary, a search is undertaken to find the his dying father. He re-enters the house where he once documentary, animation) has changed the dimension within its structure. The link washed-up whale Albrecht Dürer once looked for on lived, only to find there a boy who reminds him of himself. features and shorts (all genres) between what are now two film structures is visible in a the beaches of Zeeland. Quest to North is a film about Through a lavish, decadent story, the boy reveals to him a visual conglomerate within a new film space. filmmaking, and this self-realisation transforms it into a childhood secret that has haunted him his entire life. This 14th Festival of Tolerance – — cargo cult system of sorts. It is a recurring journey. revelation will finally allow him to say goodbye to his father. SEPTEMBER Jewish Film Festival, Zagreb th hr | 9/2020 | 10' | produced by Kinoklub Zagreb | [email protected], — — 13 Four River Film Festival 28 June – 4 July, Zagreb (open air edition) [email protected], [email protected] | in post-production hr | 7/2020 | 14’ | produced by Adriatic Art Media Film hr | 2020 | 21'20'' | produced by Kinematograf | co-produced by Apoteka 8 – 12 September, Karlovac www.festivaloftolerance.com | [email protected] [email protected] | in post-production – Space for Contemporary Art | [email protected], www.frff.com.hr [email protected] | finished – not yet released features (fiction, documentary) [email protected] features and shorts (all genres)

JULY 25th Split Film Festival – 18th Tabor Film Festival – International International Festival of New Film Short Film Festival 10 – 17 September, Split 10 – 12 July, Desinić www.splitfilmfestival.hr | [email protected] www.taborfilmfestival.com features and shorts (fiction, documentary, [email protected] animation, new media) shorts (all genres)

Surf Testfilm #1 While We Were Here Dok smo bili tu • directed by Luka Matić • directed by Gideon Kiers, Lucas Van Der Velden, David Kiers / Telcosystems • directed by Sunčica Fradelić impressum The film features a continuously changing visual collage, combining images of a forest and several available Testfilm #1 explores the creative possibilities of the Digital Briefly depicted fragments from the characters' lives, television programmes recorded simultaneously on location. Cinema Package (dcp) – the new global infrastructure through summer and winter, as each of them suffers a loss. editor proofreading publisher [email protected] The compositing process is carried out live, without the for film projection in cinemas. Could one upset the default Cinematic meditation on inevitable changes. Valentina Lisak David Edel Croatian Audiovisual [email protected] use of cgi. This creates a kind of electromagnetic paysage, behaviour of the dcp system and unearth its artistic — Centre www.havc.hr enabling the audience to see the invisible presence of em potential? Or is the system designed to exclude any hr | 11/2020 | 15' | produced by Kino klub Split | [email protected] associates design waves that reach deep, even into the seemingly pristine possibility of human intervention? If so, what happens to in post-production Jadranka Hrga Šesnić&Turković department of issn 2670-8248 natural landscape. the history and the future of experimental cinema and the Irena Jelić Barbara Bjeliš promotion — renegades who refuse to play by the rules? Karla Bačić-Jelinčić Iva Sindik 18 hr | 8/2020 | 10’ | produced by Kadromat | [email protected], — 10000 Zagreb, hr [email protected] | in post-production hr, nl | 2020 | 14'21'' | produced by Bonobostudio (hr) | co-produced by interview translation photographers t. +385 1 6041 080 Stichting Spatial Media Laboratories (nl) | int'l sales Bonobostudio Andrea Rožić Nikola Zelmanović f. +385 1 4667 819 [email protected] | iff Rotterdam 2020 Bartolomeo Diaz (Renata Poljak – Partenza portrait)

26 new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 croatian audiovisual centre croatian audiovisual centre new croatian features and shorts 2/2020 27 Since the introduction of the Production hbo’s Succession season 2 finale took the Filming in Incentive Programme in 2012, numerous luxurious cruise down the Dalmatian coast projects have chosen Croatia as a location before scoring the Golden Globe for Best Croatia 2020 for their production. Star Wars, the greatest Television Series – Drama. modern film mythology, set its casino city of Canto Bight in the old city of Dubrovnik. All these and many more projects choose Natural beauties of the island of served Croatia not only for the stunning locations Croatia increased the cash rebate as a location for the film Mamma Mia! Here and the rebate scheme, but also for its rate to 25%. An additional 5% has We Go Again, while the stunning, wasteland- exceptional local crews and production like locations of the island of Pag played the companies with impressive records in been approved for productions Arctic landscape in amc’s suspenseful thriller domestic and international production. filming in regions with below average series The Terror, executively produced by Ridley Scott. Globally popular Game of Thrones For more information about the Croatian development. Positive changes in series set its city King’s Landing in Dubrovnik, Production Incentive Programme, visit the incentives programme are set to the city of Meereen in the fortress of Klis and filmingincroatia.hr or contact the city of Braavos in Šibenik and Kaštilac. [email protected]. encourage producers to explore great Numerous locations throughout Croatia hosted new locations for filming in Croatia. the bbc One’s McMafia, awarded best drama series at the International Emmy Awards.

Game of Thrones hbo (2012-2019)

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi Lucasfilm, Ram Bergman Productions and Walt Disney Pictures (2017)

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McMafia Pictures/bbc/mp Film Production (2019)

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Succession hbo (Season 2, 2019)

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