Program
This is a story about Euro Black Nation, the first Roma hip-hop band in Croatia, and its members who are trying to make a name for themselves as musicians. Through their music and lyrics, the two young men Dario and Nedeljko give us an insight into their inner world and tell us the story of growing up and living in the Roma settlement - Hutment. Although young Dario and Nedjeljko are...
COMPETITION
Two people's turbulent divorce seen through the eyes of their 18-year-old daughter.
COMPETITION
As Bruno fishes for squid on a winter afternoon, we grasp the simplicity and poignancy of hislife.
COMPETITION
Andrej Macko is a man whose artistic outlook was shaped by his life experience in the Croatian War of Independence and the postwar disillusionment in the civic normsof life. All of this has opened his creative outlet and Macko went the uncompromising way – embracing the image of himself as an artist and a man of nature.
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We encounter the controversial Croatian film director Lordan Zafranović in voluntary exile in Prague. The film portrays his rise from a talented outsider to a celebrated Yugoslav director of the acclaimed war film «Occupation in 26 Pictures». His life story, an unconventional depiction of his rise and downfall, unveils the compromises he made in order to survive as an artist during the communis...
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The Newlyweds Park was the first park built after World War II in Zagreb. On their wedding day, newlyweds would pick a tree to be planted in the future park in memory of their marriage. In addition to the wedding registry book, they would sign their names in the book of the Newlyweds Park next to their tree. Intimate memories of three married couples tell a story of love and some long forg...
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The protagonist of the movie is the small and crowded Croatian bus terminal in Rijeka the living-room of a town on the threshold of changes. As the plans for building a promised larger bus terminal are overshadowed by the busy preparations for Croatia's accession to the EU, the old bus station Žabica remains the crossroads for tourists and an integral part of the local community; where col...
19. LFF
, izvan konkurencije / out of competition
, off program
, Villa Antonio
Sixteen years after the war, in the main square in Zagreb several thousand people gather to watch the live broadcast of the verdict for Croatian war generals. Through a series of close-ups, the film documents an eruption of emotions instigated by the verdict.
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This music documentary is about the first five years of a girl-indie-rock band «Punchke» from Vinkovci. Filmed in the spring of 2012 on various locations in Croatia and Slovenia, this documentary offers a unique insight into the public perception of the band.
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«Šuran's Sheep» shows only one aspect of Noel Šuran - a cultural anthropologist, art teacher, musician and artist. In this film, we get to know him as a sheep designer, a shepherd who interferes in the erotic life of his sheep in order to make them artistically more interesting. Their skins eventually become his artefacts.
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The documentary film «The Chaplin Theatre – a Tragicomedy in Four Acts» speaks about a group of young Roma under the leadership of Naser Sokoli who decided to establish the first amateur Roma theatre in Europe, some even say in the world. The film explores the motivation behind this unusual initiative, different events behind the making of a new theatre play and the first international per...
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Nela Marijić quit her job so she could spend her days with her disabled husband Pero who suffers from ALS. One morning, his condition deteriorates; his doctors are on a weekend-vacation and nobody answers the ER phone. In these critical hours, Nela, as always, can rely on nobody but herself. This movie tells a story of negligence in our healthcare system and enormous courage of one woman.
The movie is comprised of five parts tackling the question of love and partnership.
The idea came from the «Northern Exposure» serial, more specifically from the episode «Maggie turns 30», in which the main female protagonist turns 30 and realizes that her love life has been a complete disaster because all of her ex boyfriends had died in the most bizarre ways. Convinced that by the age of 30,...
REGIONAL PROGRAM
«The Settlers - Our New Armed Neighbours» is a documentary that deals with the Jewish occupation of the Palestinian territory in the West bank. The politics of colonization of that territory is illegal by the International law, nonetheless, the settlements are growing each day while the settlers are walking around armed, terrorizing the local community. This fact has been continuously ignored b...
REGIONAL PROGRAM
«Terrace» is a film about escaping the hustle and bustle of the city in order to experience the rehabilitative environment a rural holiday home can provide. The filmmakers observe life unfolding from the terrace on which they spend a good deal of their summer holidays. They observe seemingly meaningless events that are neither scandalous nor surprising. Only one rule is obeyed: a few square met...
LFF GUESTS
Twenty-five years ago, Nedjeljko Babić left his job as a carpenter to start his God-given career: matching lonely men and women. He soon became quite famous, thanks to his skill, but also his nickname – the Gangster. His whole life Gangster has been helping men and women from his mountain region to find their soul mates. But lately his job has become more difficult than ever - women do not want...
LFF GUESTS
«Love Thy Neighbor»is a short documentary portrait of a 51-year-old man who lives near Sinj in Dalmatian hinterland. It's also a film about a film, or more precisely, about the process of making a documentary film, in which the author and the protagonist fight for the control over the story and content. It's not important who the winner of this battle is, because their joint effort to make a fi...
LFF GUESTS
Quick pacing of tourists. Drivers getting nervous at the temperature of 40°C. Masses of bodies on the beach. Noise and garbage. Croatia – a tourist country at the peak of the season is ready to take all chances for quick profit... Only several kilometers further, you can find the most perfect Zen, a place where people collect salt, pick olives and build dry stone walls. «Salt, Olive, Stone» is...
A hybrid impressionistic film shot in Rijeka and Rio de Janeiro during Carnival and Easter.
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«Two Furnaces for the Shock Worker Josip Trojko» portrays the remainders of a former steel mill in Sisak and follows the dismantling and cutting of the famous Siemens-Martin furnace, which used to be the very center of the former mill. This furnace helped the workers break the world record in steel production. Overwhelmed by emotions, the workers’ sons slowly destroy the furnace and load its pa...
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When banking becomes loan-sharking...!A documentary about the victims of loans in Swiss francs in Croatia and a problem that reflects the policy makers' lack of concern for the citizens. The movie addresses this problem on multiple levels: through the fates of loan victims who are experiencing personal drama – families falling apart, sickness, death – and through expert's explanations of the fi...
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«Autofocus» is a short documentary film about the church of Saint Nicolas from the 12th century, visited every year by many tourists. It is located on a picturesque hill with a pine tree growing right next to it. The camera witnesses the transformation of the site into what appears to be a stage where unusual events occurs and tourists become actors in a play.
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A sudden combination of high relative humidity and low temperature resulted in an unexpected commotion.
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«Čedo» is a documentary film about Čedo Šaraba, a man pushed off the stage, the likes of whom we see daily in streets, parks and trams, collecting plastic bottles and scrounging money. Čedo is 45. He is homeless, alcoholic and drug addict with no legal income. His mother is a Croat and his father is a Montenegrin. Čedo's parents moved to Zagreb in the 1950s: mother came from Croatian Podra...
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Dejan from Beli Manastir shares his view on his miserable life with Vinko Pejić, a journalist at Slavonski radio. Through a couple of desperate phone calls, Dejan talks about his life, at the same time depicting the sad Croatian reality.
