30-10-2015

FESTIVALS: Zagreb Film Festival Announces Line up

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    ZAGREB: Thirteen debut or second feature films are running for the Golden Pram at the 13th edition of Zagreb Film Festival (14-22 November 2015).

    Czech Republic and Iceland are coming in the competition with two films each. Beside the feature films competition, the feature films programme is completed by Zagreb Stories, the third part of the popular portmanteau film produced by Propeler Film, which will screen out of competition.

    The feature films jury will be composed of Levan Koguashvili, Jessica Woodworth and Cristoph Thoke. This year the short films national competition Checkers is celebrating its 10th anniversary, My First Film section focuses on Bosnia and Herzegovina, while a retrospective of Orson Welles, a selection of films from Directors’ Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival and the Portuguese Curtas Vila do Conde Film Festival are also in the programme.

    LINEUP:

    Rams (Iceland)
    Directed by Grímur Hákonarson

    Sparrows (Denmark, Croatia)
    Directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson
    Produced by Nimbus
    Coproduced by MP Film Production and Halibut
    Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre

    Home Care (Czech Republic, Slovakia)
    Directed by Slavek Horak
    Produced by TVORBA films
    Coproduced by Czech Television, Fog´n´Desire Films, Sokol Kollár, RTVS, Svoboda@Williams, Supported by State Cinematography Fund, Czech Republic, the Slovak Audiovisual Fund and RWE

    Family Film (Czech Rep., Slovakia, Slovenia, Germany, France)
    Directed by Olmo Omerzu
    Produced by endorfilm
    Coproduction: Arsmedia, Punkchart Films
    Supported by the Czech State Cinematography Fund, the Slovak Audiovisual Fund and the Slovenian Film Center

    War (Denmark)
    Directed by Tobias Lindholm

    From Afar (Venezuela, Mexico)
    Directed by Lorenzo Vigas

    Neon Bull (Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands)
    Directed by Gabriel Mascaro

    Son of Saul (Hungary, France)
    Directed by Laszlo Nemes

    Me, Earl and the Dying Girl (USA)
    Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

    The New Kid (France)
    Directed by Rudi Rosenberg

    Tanna (Australia)
    Directed by Bentley Dean, Martin Butler

    In the Crosswind (Estonia)
    Directed by Martti Helde
    Producted by Allfilm
    Supported by Estonian Film Institute

    Our Everyday Life (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia)
    Directed by Ines Tanović
    Produced by Dokument Sarajevo
    Coproduced by Spiritus Movens and Studio Maj
    Supported by the Slovenian Film Center, the Croatian Audiovisual Center, Film Fund Sarajevo