Tilic of the company Kinorama received the award at the festival’s opening ceremony.
A total of 42 films are competing in the festival’s four competitions, with 11 films in the main competition of first and second feature films. Nine Croatian shorts are competing in the festival’s Checkers programme.
The festival’s industry programme includes a Multi-Platform & Marketing Business School presented by Spain’s Media Business School and developed in cooperation with the Croatian Audiovisual Center, MEDIA Desk Croatia and the festival.
The features competing in the main program are:
Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot / Zoran, il mio nipote scemo (Italy/Slovenia), dir. Matteo Oleotto www.staragara.com
The Lunchbox / Dabba (Germany/France/India), dir. Ritesh Batra
After Lucia / Después de Lucía (Mexico), dir. Michel Franco
Short Term 12 (USA), dir. Destin Daniel Cretton
Vis-à-vis (Croatia), dir. Nevio Marasović www.antitalent.net
Harmony Lessons / Uroki Garmonii (France/Germany/Kazakhstan), dir Emir Baigazin
Grand Central (France/Austria), dir. Rebecca Zlotowski
Still Life (UK/Italy), dir. Uberto Pasolini
Miss Violence (Greece), dir. Alexandros Avranas
Salvo (Italy/France), dir. Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia
Shell (UK), dir. Scott Graham
The Croatian short films presented in Checkers programme are:
Thresholds / Pragovi, dir. Dijana Mlađenović, prod. Kinematograf
Story about Mare / Priča o Mari iz Velog Varoša, dir. Igor Šeregi, prod. Akademija dramske umjetnosti
I Hate You / Mrzim te, dir. Lana Kosovac, prod. Akademija dramske umjetnosti,
Shame on You / Srami se, dir. Daria Blažević, prod. Filmakademie Wien
Boxed / Kutija, dir. Nebojša Slijepčević, prod. Petnaesta umjetnost
Through the Window / Kroz prozor, dir. Goran Ribarić, prod. Akademija dramske umjetnosti
It’s Like This Isn’t You / Ko da to nisi ti, dir. Ivan Sikavica, prod. Fade In, Zagreb film
The Process / Snijeg u Split,dir. Igor Jelinović, prod. Pomračenje o podne
Taximetar, dir. Tomislav Šoban, prod. Akademija dramske umjetnosti, 2013