17.10.2014
After ZGDox-a, Pula, Motovun, Vukovar and MAXtv Filmomanije we came to the last film festival this year, 12th Zagreb Film Festival held under the general sponsorship of Hrvatski Telekom and in organization of the Zagreb Film Festival Artistic Organization. ZFF is held from 19 to 26 October 2014.
As usual, the ZFF audience will be able to have fun with MAXtv To Go and Deezer, to participate in MAXtv Filmofeel prize-winning competition, and for all those who cannot join us in the Festival, we prepared a special offer in our MAXtv library comprising 13 state-of-the-art films. Some of the films are already in the library and some of them are still to come. All the films will be available to MAXtv users at an additional fee.
Nobody's and Everybody's Children, Court Trials, True Stories and National Chronicles in the Focux of 12th ZFF
For more than a decade, Zagreb Film Festival has been bringing to the Zagreb audience the latest and most interesting titles of the debutant feature film. This year for the twelfth consecutive year, from 19 to 26 October, ZFF will offer more than one hundred movies from authors from all over the world are distributed into ten different programs.
The festival will take place at six venues and as in the past years the venues are digitalized movies: Europa, Tuškanac and MSU, Zagreb Dance Center and Zagreb Puppet Theater. The new location this year is Dokukino KIC in Preradovićeva 5.
The main international competition program this year brings 40 full-length and short, feature and documentary reasons for going to movie, and they come from all over the world (from Island to Indonesia), and Kockice program will present 12 title that will give the overview of the Croatian short film production.
As in the past years, ZFF also has a few supporting programs: Moj prvi film, a selection of films by film critic Nenad Polimac, introduces the first films by the Romanian new wavers; Bibijada, will entertain the youngest audience by fabulous adventures coming from Denmark this year, and the exceptionally popular Velikih 5 program will present us block busters form Spain, France, Italy, Germany and Great Britain.
As a part of Dan LUX filma program, the audience will be able to see the finalists of the European Parliament Award competition for achievements in cinematography, and a Derek Jerman Retrospective in cooperation with Queer Zagreb will present a selection of films by the British queer-punk filmmaker.
Besides the above listed programs, this year's ZFF brings serveral novelties because ZFF loves to discover genius directors and to follow their work. The new Ponovo s nama program presents five films directed by famous authors whose first works were shown in previous festival editions (films by Andrej Zvjaginceva, Xavier Dolan, Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz, Anton Corbijn, Taike Waititi and Jemaine Clement).
The novelty of the 12th ZFF is also Big PLUS program that is an extension of the children's Bibijada program and it brings four movies that all generations will like, especially teenagers. Prvi svjetski rat program selected by Daniel Rafaelić, film historian, is a sort of a commemoration of the hundred anniversary of WW1.
We also have to mention the extremely rich educational Industrija program within which the producer of “Ničija zemlja” and “Pogrešna dostava” Čedomir Kolar, Danish documentary maker and poet Jorgen Leth and Uruguayan-Brazilian director and photography director (“Božji grad”, “Brižni vrtlar”, “Sljepoća”) César Charlone will hold their master class lectures.
Exclusive Offer of Films in Our Video Library:
Hrabra djevojka – only from 23/10/14 at 16:00 to Sunday 26/10/14 at 23:59
O konjima i ljudima - from 27/10/14 to 31/12/14
Život je lakši zatvorenih očiju - from 27/10/14 to 31/12/14
The standing offer in our library:
Hannah Arendt, Prošlost, Ulica u Palermu, Zoran, moj nećak idiot, Izbezumljenost, Alabama Monroe, Reality, Pogrešna dostava, Krugovi, Salvo
Hrvatski Telekom is the general sponsor of ZFF.
The festival is organized by the Artistic Organization Zagreb Film Festival.