The 6th press conference of The International Film Festival FEST 2010 presented the only English director of the festival Gareth Jones with his Film “Desire”, a low budget film nominated for Best UK Feature at the prestigious West End Raindance Festival 2009. The directional debut of Jones, according to Empire Online, “Cinematographer Alex Ryle makes intelligent use of encompassed space in acclaimed screenwriter Gareth Jones’ directional debut “Desire”. This is always more the work...

On the territory of Balkan, in countries of ex Yugoslavia, it is beyond the doubt a miracle to see film that deals on every day subject of a contemporary life we all are living in. One Croatian film director does that really well. I’m talking about film director and professor of Drama Academy in Zagreb Zrinko Ogresta. He deals with no past civil war; no Balkan politics toward rest of the world, no war crimes, no people trafficking, but ordinary people and ordinary life, on such manner that any...

Fathers and SonsPula International Film FestivalPula has everything that is needed to become one of the major film festivals. It has a Roman amphitheatre to show its films in – only comparable to Locarno’s Piazza Grande in size and ambiance. It has a lovely seaside on the Adriatic Sea, and, last not least, it has a long tradition: Pula, surprisingly, is one of the oldest film festivals in Europe. Yet, Pula is not a festival that film critics fear to miss. It is not on the festival circuit, e...