The third day of LFF brings diverse and rich programme – we are watching four movies in the competition for the audience award and jury award (one of which is a world premiere and two are Croatian premiers), four world premieres in the off programme and two movies are the part of “The State of Emergency” programme. 

The programme in the competition for awards, on the little Summer Stage, starts at 8:15 pm, with the Croatian premier of the movie Why Is Mom Always Crying? by Karmen Obrdalj, which brings the war story of separated husband and wife from the perspective of their daughter Ena. The movie has brought the author an award for the best student movie at the Mostar Film Festival. 

We are certain that numerous parents will identify with, and the audience have a good laugh, during the projection of the movie by Mario Papić, What Am I Doing in which he portraits his crying daughter Luca. The projection of this movie on the LFF is the world premiere.   

Next up is another Croatian premier. Faceless by David Lušičić is an essayistic documentary which follows the process of installing the monument of the first Croatian President, Franjo Tuđman, in Zagreb, just before it’s unveiling. 

When and why do programmers strip naked find out in the movie Program of Your Computer  by Inesa Antić. That is the last movie, in the competitive part of the programme, we are watching today.

The off programme today brings four world premieres, from which three movies of the New school of docu movies we will be watching in Villa Antonio. The fourth movie MMC  by Darko Bavoljak we are watching as the last movie in the first slot at the little Summer Stage. The New school of docu movies is a six – month long programme of our long – term partner from Rijeka, Filmaktiva, that was going on in the first half of this year. From this programme we are watching three short footage movies today, starting at 6 pm in Villa Antonio: Vita by Lucija Brkić which is a movie about the same named girl that is discovering her identity, Mia Goes to Ličko Petrovo Selo by Natalija Stefanović which shows Mia’s path to the border crossing where she is supposed to meet with Adnan after multiple months of isolation and It Will Be Like This for Quite A While by Sara Huskić about a room as a place of return to childhood. Darko Bavoljak made a first movie about the Rijeka’s MMC which was, twenty years ago, the focus point of turbulent and fierce actionist and performer scene with the impact far more wide than within Rijeka and surrounding area. 

As a part of the programme State of Emergency we are watching two films today. At 6:30 pm, in Villa Antonio, we are projecting Free Dacians by Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan and Andrei Gorgan who have, for the occasion of centennial anniversary of unification of Romania, filmed a movie about nationalism. What and how to change the thinking of the person with extremist ideas and how their life is like after the transformation you can find out at 10:30 pm on the Summer Stage with the movie Exit by Karen Winther, which we are bringing with support of the Royal Norweigan Embassy.