The organisers of Zagreb Film Festival,
programme coordinator Selma Mehadžiæ, executive director Hrvoje Laurenta, PR
manager Ivana Sanseviæ and Croatian Telecom’s PR Department manager Maja Weber
presented this year’s anniversary edition of Zagreb Film Festival at today’s
press conference.
The 10th Zagreb Film Festival will present as many
as 100 films in ten film programmes. Fifty of them will compete for the awards:
best feature, best short and best documentary. The festival takes place at six
locations, in addition to Europa and Tuškanac cinemas, Zagreb Dance Centre and
the Museum of Contemporary Art, the new locations are Griè and Dokukino KIC
cinemas.
A novelty in the Checkers programme is the
collaboration with the Croatian Film Directors’ Guild, which will ensure the
winner the amount of HRK 10,000 as support to their future work.
“A particularly rich side programme of the
10th edition of ZFF features three permanent programmes – Bib for
Kids, The Great 5 and My First Film. My First Film this year offers an insight
into the beginnings of filmmakers who marked the recent Austrian cinema, such
as the great Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl and many others,” said executive
director Hrvoje Laurenta.
“Most importantly, we stress the newly
launched educational programme Youth Industry! – it comprises four film
workshops intended for young filmmakers. We believe this programme will gain
momentum and through several future editions work as a platform of sorts for
the development and education of all those who consider filmmaking their
priority,” said Selma Mehadžiæ.
“Three novelties in the side programme are
Spy Film, My Third Film and Michael Glawogger Retrospective. The programme Spy
Film: The Celluloid Curtain – Europe’s Cold War in Films presents titles made
between 1960 and 1974 on both sides of the Iron Curtain – including The
Thousand Eyes of Doctor Mabuse by the cult Fritz Lang,” said Laurenta. My Third
Film offers us a follow up on the authors of impressive debut works who became
favourites of the Zagreb audience. The respected Austrian filmmaker Michael
Glawogger is one of this year’s jury members. The audience can get more
acquainted with his work through a retrospective of his films.
“In addition to everything we already
mentioned, again this year we are thinking of the audience outside of Zagreb –
for the fourth time ZFF will travel to Art-kino Croatia in Rijeka, Èakovec
Centre for Culture, and for the first time Sloboda cinema in Dubrovnik. During
the festival, we have not forgotten about entertainment, as we never do – we
organise parties at Europa and Griè cinemas,” said Hrvoje Laurenta.
The general sponsor is Croatian Telecom.
The festival is also financially supported by the City Office for Culture of
the City of Zagreb, Croatian Audiovisual Centre and MEDIA Programme.
The main and side programme of the festival is released on the official website – get to know the films, read, click and see you in 11 days at the 10th Zagreb Film Festival!