We are approaching the festival finale! To make the most of the time and events ahead, take a look at our daily program guide.
At 10 a.m. at Mak Cinema, catch the latest screenings from the CDFG Campus student program, and then at 11 a.m. at Bauer Cinema here’s your last chance to discover the best new international shorts from the CineCorto competition program.
Meanwhile at Golik Cinema, get ready for a reprise screening of the Berlinale winner, Dreams (Sex Love), directed by Dag Johan Haugerud. A romantic coming-of-age drama follows 17-year-old Johanne falling in love with her French teacher. Johanne’s crush ignites tensions within her family and confronts her mother and grandmother with their own unfulfilled dreams.
At 11:30 a.m. at Mak Cinema, Cinehill’s youngest audience also get into their own with Savages, an animated adventure that tells the moving story of a girl called Kéria, her cousin Selaï, and Oshi, a baby orangutan, who embark on the quest to save the Borneo rainforest.
At 1 p.m., Bauer Cinema presents another title from the Iranian director and recipient of this year’s Maverick Award, Jafar Panahi. We will be watching The Circle, a drama about the intertwined fates of a group of Iranian women, which won the Golden Lion in Venice but was banned in Iran.
If you can’t get enough of being in the presence of Scar, the hawk, and Braco, the owl, at 1 p.m. at Rakov Jarak, Emilio Menđušić from the Dubrava Falconry Centre from Šibenik reveals to us everything don’t yet know about these fascinating birds, as part of the Meet the Birds of Prey presentation.
At 1:30 p.m. at Mak Cinema in Fužine – the hometown of Krešo Golik, we pay tribute to this great director with a screening of the beloved classic I Have Two Mothers and Two Fathers. It is a humorous and layered story about two families of ex-spouses and their children. Admission to the screening is free.
At 3 p.m. at Bauer Cinema will screen the playful Canadian drama Two Women, directed by Chloé Robichaud, about two neighbours from a Montreal suburb who, despite their careers and families, do not feel fulfilled – until an unexpected affair opens up a whole new world for one of them.
At the same time at Rakov Jarak, Franka Blažić, the author of the children’s novel Kora and the Enchanted Spring, and illustrator Klara Stilinović Tušek, take our youngest audience members in search of mountain legends. In addition to a story, the kids will be able to play and do some drawing.
At 3:30 p.m. at Mak Cinema, watch the last title from the Visions of the Future program, the Japanese dystopian drama Happyend, set in near-future Tokyo in which daily earthquakes have led to repressive security measures. Two teenagers and best friends, find themselves on opposite sides of a divided society.
At 5 p.m. at Golik Cinema, the documentary feature Riverboom reveals to us a completely different take on war journalism. Skilfully crafted by Swiss director Claude Baechtold and told in the subversive rhythm of rock and pop music, we follow three reporters at the very start of the American invasion of Afghanistan.
Inspired by the celebration of the 100th anniversary of FIPRESCI, we have prepared for you an interesting conversation about the future of film criticism, taking place at 5 p.m. at Rakov Jarak. If you like film criticism and are interested in the direction it is taking and what future has in store for it, join the critics and authors as they attempt to answer the question: is film criticism still relevant?
At 6 p.m. at Bauer Cinema, the film program continues with the intimate Czech coming-of-age drama, The Other Side of Summer, preceded by director Andrea Orsenigo’s short Renato’s Car.
At 6:30 p.m. in the afternoon, get ready for two reprise screenings at Mak Cinema. A Little Gray Wolf Will Come is a personal documentary, filmed as a Croatian-Dutch-French production, that follows a well-known Russian journalist from a pro-Kremlin channel, Zhanna Agalakova, as she takes her rebellious, Western-oriented daughter on a journey through Putin’s Russia on the eve of the war in Ukraine. This is paired with a Croatian short, Roko, directed by Ivana Marinić Kragić.
We light the bonfire at 8:35 p.m. at Rakov Jarak in the company of all the jury members.
At 9 p.m. at the Damside Theatre, we officially close the festival with the award ceremony and a screening of the acclaimed Brazilian feature I’m Still Here. Walter Salles’s feature won the hearts of audiences and critics around the world and became the first ever Brazilian Oscar-winning title.
On the other hand, if you’ve been craving a proper Croatian comedy, head over to Rakov Jarak for the hilarious South Wind, in which the lives of the residents of a dilapidated four-story building start to intertwine as the southerly winds bear down on the city of Split. The film screens at 9:30 p.m. preceded by the comedy short Mirage about vacation troubles of domestic tourists, directed by Sara Grgurić.
We round off the evening with a concert of Zagreb’s band Ki-klop. Join us at Rakov Jarak during the craziest festival night!
The festival is supported by the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, the Tourist Boards of Kvarner and Gorski Kotar, and Croatian Forestry Company, and co-organised with the Municipality of Fužine.
In the case of heavy rain, our program continues at indoor theatres in Fužine. Follow us on social media and stay tuned for any last-minute updates.
