FESTIVALS: Pula Film Festival 2022 Announces Croatian Feature Film Competition

ZAGREB: Ten new Croatian films will compete for Golden Arena awards at the 69th Pula Film Festival (16 -24 July 2022). Pula FF is the central national festival, showcasing the…
03-06-2022

FESTIVALS: Animafest Celebrates 50 Years and Announces Competition

ZAGREB: The World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb 2022 will take place in Croatia from 6 to 11 June 2022. Animafest is widely considered to be the second…
03-06-2022

New Film Festival Exploring Sexuality Launches In Croatia

ZAGREB: The first edition of the Cherry Pop Film Festival, a new festival dedicated to exploring topics of sexuality in all its forms and manifestations, will take place 2-4 June…
01-06-2022

FNE at Cannes 2022: Croatian Cinema in Cannes

Two fiction features coproduced by 4Film will have their world premiere in the section Un Certain Regard at the 75th Cannes Film Festival. These are Butterfly Vision by Ukrainian director…
23-05-2022

Croatian Postal Bank HBP and HAVC Sign Cooperation Agreement On Financing for AV Production

ZAGREB: The Croatian Postal Bank HBP and the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) have signed an agreement that will provide the Croatian AV sector with access to significantly more financing for…
19-05-2022

FNE Podcast: Diana Nenadić - Artistic Director of Croatian Film Days

FNE's Georgian correspondent and film critic Alexander Gabelia spoke to Diana Nenadić, artistic director of Croatian Film Days, about the 31st edition of the Croatian Film Days / Dani hrvatskog…
13-05-2022

CBS Films Second Season of FBI International in Pula

PULA: The second season of the CBS series FBI International is currently being filmed in Pula, with Embassy films servicing.
13-05-2022

Masterclasses with Frances McDormand and Joel Coen at 2nd Ponta Lopud FF in Croatia

ZAGREB: American actor/producer Frances McDormand and American director/producer/screenwriter Joel Coen will hold masterclasses at the 2nd edition of the Ponta Lopud Film Festival, which will take place on the Lopud…
13-05-2022

Croatia Shows Significant Signs of Recovery after Troublesome Year 2020

ZAGREB: The amount spent by international productions filming in Croatia was 25.8 m EUR / 195.8 m HRK in 2021, with 16 international projects spending a total of 416 days…
12-05-2022

The 3rd Drive in Culture Brings Drive-in Cinemas to Four Croatian Towns

ZAGREB: The 3rd edition of Drive in Culture will screen domestic and European films in the Croatian towns of Sisak, Pula, Osijek and Zagreb from 6 to 28 May 2022.…
05-05-2022

PRODUCTION: Pavo Marinković Enters Postproduction with Vampires of Miljacka

ZAGREB: Pavo Marinković has wrapped filming on his new feature film Vampires of Miljacka / Bosanski lonac, produced by Croatia’s Telefilm in coproduction with Austria’s Nanook Film, and in collaboration…
30-04-2022

FESTIVALS: Croatian Film Days 2022 Announces Programme

ZAGREB: The 31st edition of the Croatian Film Days / Dani hrvatskog filma will screen 73 films, which have been selected from among 179 applicants. The most comprehensive overview of…
27-04-2022

Netflix Interested in Documentary Series Featuring Croatia's National Football Team Captain

ZAGREB: Netflix has expressed its interest in the documentary series Captains, which will soon be released on the newly-launched FIFA+ digital platform. The series features Croatia's national football team captain…
20-04-2022

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s Murina to Be Released in France

ZAGREB: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s debut feature Murina will be released in France by KBMO on 20 April 2022. This coproduction between Croatia, USA, Brazil and Slovenia is currently in cinemas…
13-04-2022

PRODUCTION: The Witcher S3 Shoots Briefly in Croatia

ZAGREB: The third season of Netflix's series The Witcher spent one shooting day in Croatia during the last weekend, after an initial shooting in the Italian province of Bolzano and…
12-04-2022

Croatian/Ukrainian TV Series The Silence Acquired by HBO MAX

ZAGREB: The TV series The Silence / Šutnja directed by Dalibor Matanić has been sold by Beta Film to HBO Europe for Central and Eastern Europe, as well as to…
12-04-2022

FESTIVALS: ZagrebDox 2022 Announces Winners

ZAGREB: Swedish Sabaya directed by Hogir Hirori won the Big Stamp in the International Competition of the 18th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival ZagrebDOX (3-10 April 2022). The…
11-04-2022

Kino Magistrala Network of Cinemas Launched in Croatia

ZAGREB: The new network of Croatian cinemas Kino Magistrala brings together the Kino Mediteran chain of open-air cinemas, Art-kino Croatia in Rijeka, Kinoteka Zlatna vrata in Split and Kinematografi Dubrovnik,…
08-04-2022

Croatian Audiovisual Centre Proposes to Increase Incentives to 30%

ZAGREB: The Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) is proposing an increase in incentives for international productions shooting in Croatia from 25 to 30%, and three percent from the total amount to…
05-04-2022

New Season of Bedekr Show Wraps Shooting in Croatia

DUBROVNIK: The tourist show Bedekr produced by the Czech Television wrapped shooting a new season in Croatia in Zagreb, Plitvice Lakes, and Dubrovnik.
01-04-2022