For everyone in need of excellent films and a piece of the refreshing mountain atmosphere who can’t make it to the Petehovac hill this July, we have decided to bring the mountain to you! From 25 July to 18 August, a portion of Cinehill’s rich film program will travel to open-air cinemas in Dubrovnik, Zadar, Zagreb and Split.

The program starts on 25 July, at the Tuškanac Summer Cinema in Zagreb at 21:30, with a screening of the charming black comedy Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. When empathic teenage vampire Sasha meets suicidal youth Paul, the two make an unusual pact. Only Sasha’s empathy is not such an easy obstacle. The very next day, on 26 July, one of the most important European films of the year, Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border is on, at the same venue. The fiction feature tackling the latest refugee crisis caused quite a controversy among the Polish public and packed Polish cinemas as a result. On Saturday, 27 July, in the shade of the Tuškanac Summer Cinema, catch the screening of Greek director Sofia Exarchou’s feature Animal, which centres on the lives of several animateurs at an all-inclusive seaside resort during a hot summer on the Greek coast.

On Friday, 2 August, Cinehill arrives in Dubrovnik, where local film lovers and other visitors will have the opportunity to see as many as six films from the main festival program, with something for everyone in the diverse selection. Screenings in Dubrovnik kick off with the film Animal directed by Sofia Exarchou, showing at the summer cinema Slavica, and will continue at the summer cinema Lapad, with a screening of last year’s Cinehill winner Falcon Lake, a poetic coming-of-age story directed by Charlotte LeBon. On Wednesday, 7 August, at the open-air cinema Slavica, it’s Kirill Serebrennikov’s turn with Limonov: The Ballad, a controversial biopic about the equally controversial Russian writer Eduard Limonov, portrayed by Ben Whishaw.

At the same cinema on Friday, 9 August, we are showing another winner of last year’s Cinehill, Blaga’s Lessons by Bulgarian director Stephan Komandarev, laureate of the FIPRESCI Prize at the festival. Lovers of black humour will enjoy the dark romantic comedy Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, on at the summer cinema Jadran.

We close the program in Dubrovnik with the black-humoured drama My Killer Buddy about ten-year-old Denni, who decides to save his mother from his violent father by hiring a super-assassin.