On Thursday, 24 July, the third day of the festival, we continue with an wide selection of movies and music events whose diversity is sure to delight the audience.
We start the morning with shorts! At 10:30 a.m. at Mak Cinema, students and young filmmakers will present their works in the CDFG Campus program, where future stars of Croatian cinema are discovered every year. Then, at 11 a.m. at Bauer Cinema, we continue the day with a screening from the CineCorto competition, a program filled with the most innovative recent shorts from the whole world and Croatia, including some of the titles awarded at the Berlinale and Clermont-Ferrand.
If you prefer to wake up a little later and have your morning coffee while you watch feature-length visions of the future, Golik Cinema is screening the Italian apocalyptic eco-drama Dry, directed by Paolo Virzi, at 11 a.m.
This year’s Maverick Award recipient Jafar Panahi’s feature The Mirror follows at 1 p.m., at Bauer Cinema in Rakov Jarak. A meta-cinematic work in which the author, blending documentary and fiction, uses the story of a young protagonist’s journey from school to his home, to create a suggestive and life-like portrait of life in Iran in the late 1990s.
Also at 1 p.m., in Rakov Jarak, don’t miss the Cinetalk with Yngve Sæther, the producer of the Norwegian feature Dreams (Sex Love) which won this year’s Golden Bear at the Berlinale, and which the audience will have the opportunity to see at 9 p.m. at the Damside Theatre in downtown Fužine. Join us in the laidback and stimulating conversation about emotions, intimacy and dreams in contemporary cinema in the shade of Rakov Jarak.
We take a mid-day break from films – with some music. At 1:30 p.m. at Mak Cinema we discover Croatian film composers. This year, the Croatian Composers’ Society and the Music Copyright Protection Service (ZAMP), in cooperation with Cinehill Festival, have launched a unique competition for music score composition. Composers were invited to participate in the challenge of creating a score for one of the five restored black-and-white archival video clips from the 1930s, while the final winner will be chosen by the audience!
At 3 p.m., it is all about mothers, at Bauer Cinema. We are watching the Swiss feature The Courageous directed by Jasmin Gordon, about an eccentric mother who raises three children in a remote and conservative Swiss town. The film is paired with a screening of the touching and humorous Croatian short documentary, Thank You, Mother, by Izidor Bistrović.
What kind of future do films predict for us? we find out also at 3 p.m. at Rakov Jarak, in a conversation inspired by this year’s special program Visions of the Future, selected by director Filip Zadro. Next title from this program screens at 4 p.m. at Mak Cinema – Last and First Men, a dystopian sci-fi elegy about a utopian society of superhumans narrated by Tilda Swinton, accompanied by the minimalist music score by Jóhann Jóhannsson, and featuring impressive scenes of colossal Yugoslav monuments shot on 16 mm tape.
At 5 p.m., we take in another story coming to us from this year’s partner country. The Swiss feature Bagger Drama, about a working-class family who rent, sell, and repair excavators, trying to find mutual closeness after the tragic death of their daughter screens at Golik Cinema.
This year’s Maverick Award recipient, the cult director and writer Catherine Breillat will share her thoughts on film in a Q&A at 5 p.m. at Rakov Jarak. Don’t miss the screening of her legendary feature Fat Girl, at 9:30 p.m. at the Cinema in the Woods, preceded by the honorary Maverick Award bestowed on the French filmmaker for tirelessly pushing the boundaries of the female gaze on film.
At 6 p.m. at Bauer Cinema, don’t miss the quirky romantic comedy Paul & Paulette Take a Bath, about an unusual game of seduction that takes place at real-life crime scenes throughout Paris.
Anyone who missed this year’s winner of the Grand Golden Arena in Pula will have the opportunity to make up for it at 6:30 p.m. at Mak Cinema, when we present Croatian director Ivan Ramljak’s Peacemaker, a documentary about the never-fully solved murder of Osijek Police Chief Josip Reihl Kir.
If you have not yet seen the Iranian classic The White Balloon of director Jafar Panahi, here is your chance. The film is on at 7 p.m. at the Art-kino Croatia in Rijeka.
Today’s evening bonfire at 8:35 p.m. will be lit by Catherine Breillat, the recipient of the honorary Maverick Award.
Every day from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., we invite you to visit our Balloon VR cinema at Rakov Jarak, where you can experience the thrill of virtual reality, including two titles intended for our youngest visitors.
We end the day with more music – Balkalar, a lively world music band from Zagreb boasting a simple philosophy: freedom, love, grappa, dance, song, and celebration of life. The concert starts at 23:30 p.m. at Rakov Jarak.
