Dear film professionals and members of the EFA...
At the recent World Film Festival in Montreal, I (successfully) participated with one of my films (Cvjetni trg, Flower Square) in the World Competition and I met Bruno Chatelin, board member at the European Film Academy and my old friend, Pierre-Henri Deleau again; this time, I complained to him about terrible violations of human and authors' rights in Croatia, affecting film authors, whose films were made in the socialist Yugoslavia bef...
The sixth edition of the Zagreb Jewish Film Festival will be held in Europa cinema in Zagreb, Croatia May 20 - 26.
For the sixth year in a row this festival educates domestic audience about Jewish culture and the Holocaust, and advocates multicultural dialogue and mutual values as the foundation for the successful coexistence in communities of people with different nationalities and religion.
The thematic focus of this year's edition is on tolerance, but the concurrent lectures and workshops...
VAFI is a great film festival for animated films made by children or youth under 18 years.
VAFI 3 will be held from 12th - 15th April 2012 in Varaždin, Croatia.
Visit www.vafi.hr and see how much fun we had on VAFI 1 and 2. It's definitely a place to be!
But remember - 20th January 2012 is the last day for you to send us your films and in that way for you to be a part of VAFI 3.
Partner on this years VAFI is Japan and we have Sayoko Kinoshita and Dino Sato coming to ...
Yes, it's that time of the year again when VAFI opens its submission. VAFI 3 will be held from 12th - 15th April 2012 in Varaždin, Croatia, but there is one more important date for you to remember - 20th January 2012 is the last day for you to send us your films and in that way for you to be a part of VAFI 3.
So, you know how it goes - read the Regulations, fill out the Entry Form, burn your DVDs and send them to us! Selection will this year also be done by ASIFA Croatia me...
Director: Branko Ivanda.
LEA & DARIA is inspiring true story about two thirteen-year-old girls who were, on the eve of World War II, great dancing and acting stars in Zagreb. Selling out theatre venues, they were praised in the most superb headlines by the Croatian and European press. They were filmed by Parisian Pathe and Berlin’s UFA…
During the Nazi persecution of Jews and the later German nationals’ flight from communists, a dramatic friendship was born through entertainment, dance, but also anxiety. This led towards an unexpected end.
Pandora by J. W. Waterhouse
FANTASTIC ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL was my first trip to Croatia’s comely capital. When I arrived, I had the fright of my life at 6:00am my first morning. My room was broken into by a creepy tall man and who knows what would have happened if I had not been awake at that early hour (jetlag!), if I had not been facing the door as he began opening it. Well, to make a long story short, nothing better than a hair-raising real life experience to start off an equal...
Author: Jan Wilms
Saturday, 2. July 2011 09:00
For the second time, the Film Forum Zadar will take place in Croatia in August. Its exceptional position in Europe has meanwhile been recognised by the film industry. Founder and director is the Oberhausen-based film maker Sergej Stanojkovski. An Interview.
2010LAB.tv: You founded the Film Form Zadar in 2010 and in 2011, it was already part of the "Producers Network" within the framework of the "Marche du Film" ...
Sunrise over Upper Zagreb. One of the highlights of this nocturnal film festival for me was the eerie moonlight tour of the upper old town of Zagreb. We were led by actors in costume through sinuous old cobbled streets, each of us holding dangling lit lanterns. The further we went into the past the further fiction and make-believe blurred reality and a sensation filled me that we had walked onto the set of one of the fantasy films featured at the festival. But this set was the best because this...
FILMFORUMZADAR - European Coproductions meet the Creative Industry of Zadar: Filmforumzadar"Film Forum Zadar" is the place where European Co-Productions meet Filmset Zadar - the stuning location under the Blue sky at the Adriatic coast
"Rub your eyes, if you don’t know Zadar. When your eyes are getting tired, seeing the old beautiful town full with young curious people, tired from the blue, clear sea, then you are fresh enough to focus ...
Sunrise over Upper Zagreb. One of the highlights of this nocturnal film festival for me was the eerie moonlight tour of the upper old town of Zagreb. We were led by actors in costume through sinuous old cobbled streets, each of us holding dangling lit lanterns. The further we went into the past the further fiction and make-believe blurred reality and a sensation filled me that we had walked onto the set of one of the fantasy films featured at the festival. But this set was the best because th...
Director: Ivan Peric.
Cain is a military scientist, bitterly disappointed in human race. His conclusion is that the mankind failed to create a world worth living in. Only a small minority of privileged people live in prosperity, while the rest are spending their lives in pain and hopeless struggle to survive. One day, Cain made a decision to wipe out the entire human race from planet Earth, by activating the weapons of mass destruction. Time has passed, and Cain is coming out of the shelter to find the place where he will die. The place where the last man will die.
VAFI 2011 - Call for EntriesSubmission Deadline: 15th January 2010
Submission format: DVD - PAL,
NO ENTRY FEE,
address: VAFI 2010 P. P. 5 42000 Varaždin Croatia Europe,
e-mail: vafi@vafi.hr,
web: www.vafi.hr
Every year VAFI will have a partner – in 2011 partner is Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival,
CATEGORIES
VAFI has three categories divided by age. In that way awards could be given more fairly. Every category has it...
Director: Ivan Peric.
Parody on William Shakespeare`s Romeo & Juliet, break dance gay musical comedy
Libertas Film Festival opened its doors in 2005. The Festival takes place in Dubrovnik, the famous Croatian city on the Adriatic coast, and a UNESCO World Heritage site. For this year's, sixth, edition we are planning 7 different program sections which include:
- competitive feature and short feature program (applications open until April 1st)
- non competitive documentary section dedicated to different cuisines from all around the world, 'Film & Food'
- Focus on Japanese cinema trough works of Takeshi Kitano
- section dedicated to horrors and thrillers, Midnight Madness
- special children's section that will consist of 20 Croatian short animated films and 28 polish animated films, organized in collaboration with Croatian Film Clubs' Association and AleKino! Children's Film Festival from Poland
In 2010 Libertas will organize two workshops as well. An animation workshop in collaboration with Croatian Film Clubs' Association meant for Dubrovnik's high-school film club and a Mediterranean Cross Cultural Workshop in collaboration with an Italian film school and production company NEST. The workshop will gather 4 groups of 3 young professionals - a director, producer and cinematographer. These groups will have to make a short 3 to 5 minute film on a set topic - SEAMAN, chosen because the motive of a seaman is in common with all Mediterranean countries. The participants of the workshop will have to ‘start' the film in their homeland and ‘finish' the journey in Dubrovnik. Applications for the Mediterranean Cross Cultural Workshop open until March 25th!
For more information, please visit http://www.libertasfilmfestival.com/.
VAFI is a new film festival in Croatia, Varaždin for animated films made by children or youth under 18 years.
Submit to VAFI and visit our beautiful town!;))))
Deadline is 15th January 2010 and festival date is 9 - 11 April 2010.
All information can be found on www.vanima.hr.
Thank you!
S.
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Submission Deadline: 15th January 2010
Submission format: DVD - PAL
NO ENTRY FEE
VAFI 2010
P. P. 5
42000 Varaždin
Croatia
Europe
vafi@vanima.hr
www.vanima.hr
PARTNER OF THE FESTIVALEvery year VAFI will have a partner – either a country or an author. In 2010 author – partner will be Borivoj Dovniković, so all of us will be honore
Director: Slaven Zimbrek.
Recounting a day in life of an old woman, this film is about old age, passage of youth and, perhaps, reasons for not giving up.
Director: Slaven Zimbrek.
Štefica is a portrait of a blind woman and the main character’s first name. The film is a recount of her life, her coping with blindness, and her life-long struggle with social prejudice.
Director: Slaven Zimbrek.
This Time We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know combines the archived footage and still images of the Holocaust, Rwanda and Darfur genocide with testimonies of the Holocaust survivors to establish a parallel between the ongoing crisis in Darfur and the Holocaust. However, as the film’s title points out, ignorance cannot be used as an excuse for not helping out because “this time we can’t say we didn’t know”.
SPLIT FILM FESTIVAL IS OPEN TO ALL CREATIVE, INNOVATIVE, PERSONAL, RADICAL, SUBVERSIVE ETC WORK(FILM, VIDEO & NEW MEDIA), WHETHER ITS INVOLVING TRADITIONAL FILM TECHNIQUES OR THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY OF ELECTRONIC IMAGE.
Mediterranean Film Festival Split will be held for the third time in the city of Split (Croatia); 1700 years old Mediterranean town, from May 24th - May 29th 2010. The festival will screen 15 films from the Mediterranean region. The screenings will be held outdoors and indoors; in an open-air cinema Bacvice and in a cinema Zlatna Vrata in the center of the Diocletian's palace. Festival's team is an experienced one; young people that have worked on many film festivals in the past. Our aim is to present the Mediterranean culture and film production the best way we can, especially since this is the only festival of Mediterranean film in this part of Europe. Films are not all the festival has to offer; concerts, exhibitions and round tables will also be a part of the event, bringing the Mediterranean closer to all who wish to be a part of the festival. This festival will hopefully become an important centre for presenting films in this part of the world.
New Author Film Festival www.faf.rs in Belgrade Serbia screened Croatian film “Kino Lika”. This time it is praised and brand new film by younger generation Croatian film director Dalibor Matanic. The film awarded in Montpellier really have captured attention of well known Belgrade’s film critics was already screened at 14 Sarajevo Film Festival and Pula Film Festival and ever since it won a loads of attention and by now it has been shown in Belgrade Cinema. This is a fifth feature by Dal...
ZagrebDox, the biggest documentary film festival in the region, will be taking place from 25 February to 2 March 2008 in Zagreb's Student Center. The international and regional competition programs will be accompanied by the exceptionally popular 'Controversial Dox' and two new programs – 'Music Globe' and 'Fathers and Sons'. This year's retrospective is dedicated to Japanese documentaries and Polish filmmaker Marcel Lozinski. As a part of 'ZagrebDox Pro' program, the Pitching Forum with TV ed...
The 54th Pula Film Festival running from 12th to 21st July in the historic Istrian city brings crowds of cheery Croatians to alfresco screenings in what must be Europe's most magical "cinema"- the majestic Arena constructed by the Emperor Vespasian for his mistress more than 1900 years ago.Here unreel the latest new Croatian films,competing for Golden Arena trophies and represented by delegations of film-makers who then can enjoy the latest international movies as late-night previews-and so far ...
