Having started with a warmup in Zagreb, then moving to Film Hill to mark its 20th anniversary with a five-day film and music program and then successfully touring Istrian towns, Motovun Film Festival is now back in Zagreb again, in Lauba Culture Center. Every day between 24 August and 2 September, Motovun in Zagreb program will be presenting the most important films from this year’s festival edition in Motovun and its children’s program in Buzet.<\/p>\n
\tTraditionally, Motovun Film Festival screens its best films in Lauba Culture Center, thus providing those who spent the last week of July working or enjoying their vacation instead of attending Motovun screenings with an opportunity to see the best of this year’s program. The twentieth edition of the festival included 125 short and feature films, foreign and Croatian. Twelve of those will be shown in Lauba between 24 August and 2 September.<\/p>\n
\tThe Lauba program opens Thursday with one of the best Icelandic debut films, Heartstone by Guðmundur Guðmundsson. Then follows an oddball Spanish thriller, TheBar. Via craggy Georgian wastelands (Dede, awarded with a special mention at the prestigious Karlovy Vary festival), Israeli mountains (Holy Air) and the night streets of Russia (Arhythmia), the road will take you to the Bulgarian Wild West and this year’s Propeller of Motovun and FIPRESCI Awards winner, Western.<\/p>\n
\tFor the audiences still escorted to the movies by their parents, this and last year’s winners of youth and children’s film festival Buzz@teen, Heartstrings and Nika, will be shown in the program. These two screenings are sponsored by \u0161kolska knjiga. As of Friday, 25 August, if you buy a set of school requisites in \u0161kolska knjiga bookstore on Ban Jela\u010di\u0107 Square in Zagreb, you will receive two free tickets for the said films (to be screened in Lauba on 1 and 2 September, respectively). The number of free tickets is limited.<\/p>\n
\tAn entertaining Irish refreshment, A Date for Mad Mary, and an interesting documentary film about pop-culture, Most Important Boy in the Worldwill be followed by two intense thrillers, Brimstone starring Dakota Fanning and The Fury of a Patient Man from Spain, the winner of four Goya Awards. The screening of the latter will mark the end of the Motovun program in Lauba.<\/p>\n
\tA single ticket costs HRK 20 and a set for all twelve films costs HRK 100. The tickets can be obtained at Lauba box office which opens an hour before each screening or they can be booked via ulaznice.hr.<\/p>\n
\tSCREENINGS:<\/p>\n
\t24th Aug, Thursday, 9 pm
\n\tHEARTSTONE \/ HJARTASTEIN
\n\tDenmark, Ireland, 2016., 129'
\n\tdir. Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson<\/p>\n
\t25th Aug, Friday, 9 pm
\n\tBAR \/ EL BAR
\n\tSpain, 2016., 106'
\n\tdir. Álex de la Iglesia<\/p>\n
\t26th Aug, Saturday, 9 pm
\n\tA DATE FOR MAD MARY
\n\tIreland, 2016., 82'
\n\tdir. Darren Thornton<\/p>\n
\t27th Aug, Sunday, 9 pm
\n\tHOLY AIR \/ HAWA MOQADDAS
\n\tIsrael, 2017., 81'
\n\tdir. Shady Srour<\/p>\n
\t28th Aug, Monday, 9 pm
\n\tDEDE
\n\tGeorgia, Qatar, Netherlands, Croatia, 2016., 97'
\n\tdir. Mariam Khatchvani<\/p>\n
\t29th Aug, Tuesday, 9 pm
\n\tMOST IMPORTANT BOY IN THE WORLD\/ NAJVA\u017dNIJI DE\u010cKO NA SVETU
\n\tSerbia, 2016., 75’
\n\tdir. Tea Luka\u010d<\/p>\n
\t30th Aug, Wednesday, 9 pm
\n\tARRHYTHMIA \/ \u0102\u0090\u00c2\u0090\u0102\u0090\u00c2\u00a0\u0102\u0090\u00cb\u015b\u0102\u0090\u00c2\u02d8\u0102\u0090\u0139\u201c\u0102\u0090\u00cb\u015b\u0102\u0090\u00c2\u017b
\n\tRussia, Finland, Germany, 2017 116’
\n\tdir.Boris Khlebnikov<\/p>\n
\t31st Aug, Thurday, 9 pm<\/p>\n
\tBRIMSTONE
\n\tThe Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, UK, 2016., 148’
\n\tdir.Martin Koolhoven<\/p>\n
\t1st Sep, Friday, 6 pm
\n\tPROGRAM FOR KIDS BY \u0161KOLSKA KNJIGA
\n\tNIKA
\n\tSlovenia, 2016., 90'
\n\tdir. Slobodan Maksimovi\u0107<\/p>\n
\t1st Sep, Friday, 9 pm
\n\tWESTERN
\n\tGermany, Bulgaria, Austra, 2017., 119'
\n\tdir. Valeska Grisebach<\/p>\n
\t2nd Sep, Saturday, 6 pm
\n\tPROGRAM FOR KIDS BY \u0161KOLSKA KNJIGA
\n\tHEARTSTRINGS \/ LE COEUR EN BRAILLE
\n\tFrance, Belgium, 2016., 89’
\n\tdir. Michel Boujenah<\/p>\n
\t2nd Sep, Saturday, 6 pm
\n\tTHE FURY OF A PATIENT MAN \/ TARDE PARA LA IRA*
\n\tSpain, 2016., 91'
\n\tdir. Raúl Arévalo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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