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Sanja Ravlic, National Representative to Eurimages (May 17 to 22)
Martina Petrovic, Head of MEDIA desk Croatia (May 15 to 22)
Ivana Ivisic, Head of Promotion (May 15 to 22)
Vanja Sremac, Deputy Promotion (May 15 to 22)
Ana Mikin, Promotion Coordinator (May 15 to 23)
Petra Hofbauer, Head of Press (May 15 to 22)
Jadranka Hrga, Head of Programmes Dept. (May 15 to 20)
Stage Fright
directed by Yorgos Zois
It’s the opening night of the most anticipated avant-garde theatre play of the year. The guests of the premiere take their seats and the play starts. Seven young armed persons, with gentle faces, enter the stage. They randomly choose people from the audience and invite them up on stage. They ask them to co-create a new devised play with the cast. But there is one condition. Everything has to be real; from the performances to the bullets. The remaining audience watches the play with great interest, not knowing if this is a true act or not. The new play will come to an end end at the exact time that the premiere ends. Until then, art will imitate survival.
Production Company Pan Entertainment sa (Greece); in co-production with Nukleus film (Croatia) Produced by Maria Drandaki Co-produced by Siniša Juričic
status: in pre-production est. production date: summer, 2014
Contacts in Cannes Maria Drandaki Cell: +30 6944846012 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Web: www.pan.com.gr Siniša Juričić Cell: +385 91 5021 871 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Web: www.nukleus-film.hr
Obrana i zaštita / A Stranger
directed by Bobo Jelčić
When Slavko’s old friend Dulaga dies, Slavko feels obliged to go to the funeral. But in his hometown of Mostar, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this simple social obligation has the potential to get him into all kinds of trouble. This is a compelling tale of everyday life in a fractured society, and a world where paranoia, comedy and drama co-exist. It is also an astute psychological portrait of a man who is forced to cross the invisible line that divides two communities. Above all, it is the story of a man who lost everything that defined him, when his country disintegrated.
Main Cast Bogdan Diklić, Nada Durevska, Ivana Roščić, Rakan Rushaidat Produced by Zdenka Gold Co-produced by Josip Popovac, Tomislav Bubalo, Tomislav Topić Production Company Spiritus Movens
Production; in co-production with Croatian Radiotel- evision (hrt), Kadar (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2013 | 87’ | Colour | Drama Festivals 63rd Berlin International Film Festival – Forum
Contacts in Cannes International Sales Rendez-vous Pictures Philippe Tasca Tel: +33 6 73 04 50 72 Email: p.tasca@rendezvouspic- tures.com Web: www.rendezvouspictures.com
Spiritus Movens Production Zdenka Gold Cell: +385 98 353 965 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website: www.spiritus-movens.hr
Svećenikova djeca / The Priest’s Children
directed by Vinko Brešan
Main Cast Krešimir Mikić, Nikša Butijer, Marija Škaričić, Dražen Kuhn Produced by Ivan Maloča Production Company Interfilm;
in co-production with Croatian Radiotelevision (hrt), Zillion film (Serbia)
Convinced that he is behaving in a righteous manner, because ‘even the Pope is against the use of condoms’, Don Fabijan, a Catholic priest in a small town on a Dalmatian island, starts puncturing condoms. He then persuades Peter, a god-fearing newsstand owner, to sell them at his newspaper kiosk. Don Fabijan and Peter soon join forces with Marin, a pious pharmacist, who starts secretly replacing contraceptive pills with vitamin pills in his pharmacy. Soon, the actions of the trio start influencing the lives of the islanders, who are no longer the masters of their own fate.
2013 | 97’ | Colour | Comedy Contacts in Cannes International Sales Wide Management Loic Magneron Tel: +33 6 60 43 96 86 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Web: www.widemanagement.com
Interfilm Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Web: www.interfilm.hr
Zagonetni dječak / The Mysterious Boy
directed by Dražen Žarković
Main Cast Antonio Parač, Karlo Maloča, Toma Budanko, Vanja Markovinović Produced by Ankica Jurić Tilić Production Company Kinorama; in co-pro- duction with Croatian Radiotelevision (hrt)
The Mysterious Boy is a family film about a group of fourteen-year old boys who solve a mystery and along the way discover what it means to be an adult. Koko’s friend Tomo has recently moved to the city, and craves adventure. At school, their attention is drawn to a new student who is acting strangely. Together with their classmate Marijana, the three boys embark on an adventure that will reveal the new student’s carefully concealed secret. Solving mysteries is no mere game however – and the solution proves more frightening than they first realized.
2013 | 88’ | Colour | Family Film, Adventure, Mystery
Contact in Cannes Kinorama Ankica Jurić Tilić Tel: +385 98 465 576 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Web: www.kinorama.hr
MARKET SCREENINGS
A Stranger
2013 | 87’ | Colour | Drama
Market Screenings
FRI | MAY 17 | 20:30 | PALAIS C
MON | MAY 20 | 12:00 | GRAY 1
The Priest's Children
2013 | 97’ | Colour | Comedy
MARKET PREMIERE
FRI | 17 MAY | 11:30 | PALAIS B
SUN | 19 MAY | 15:30 | PALAIS D
The Mysterious Boy
2013 | 88’ | Colour | Family Film, Adventure, Mystery
MARKET PREMIERE
SUN | MAY 19 | 10:00 | GRAY 1
Best of Croatian Shorts 2012/2013
FICTION FILMS: Babysitter by Ivan Sikavica, From One Day to Another by Sara Hribar, I’m a Self-Made Woman by Sonja Tarokić, The Little Raccoon by Barbara Vekarić, Rom Com by Zvonimir Rumbolt, Sweetie by Aldo Tardozzi, Terrarium by Hana Jušić, Umbrella by Jure Pavlović
ANIMATED FILMS: Fibonacci Bread by Danijel Žeželj, I Already Know What I Hear by Darko Masnec, Pinball by Darko Vidačković, Why Elephants? by Marko Meštrović
EXPERIMENTAL FILM Site Selection by Mare Šuljak
PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE Zdenka Gold
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Documentary Films:
Gangster te voli | Gangster of Love
directed by Nebojša Slijepčević
2013 | 79’ | dcp | Colour | Documentary
production company Restart
festivals Hot Docs 2013, ZagrebDox – Audience Award
Matchmaker Nediljko Babić, also known as “Gangster”, helps a Bulgarian single mother find a new husband in Croatia. But a series of comically disastrous dates reveals the true nature of conservative Croatian men: they would rather die alone than marry a foreigner with a child.
Cvjetni trg | Flower Square
directed by Krsto Papić
2012 | 105’ | dcp | Colour | Crime, Drama
production company Ozana film
festivals Montreal World ff 2012
Actor Filip Kapec and his family find themselves under threat from the mafia and the criminal underworld after a police inspector Branko blackmails Filip into helping the police investigate a ruthless mafia boss.
Halimin put | Halima’s Path
directed by Arsen A. Ostojić
2012 | 93’ | dcp | Colour | Drama
production company Arkadena Zagreb
festivals 2012 Talinn Black Nights ff, Cottbus ff, Cairo ff
Halima’s Path tells the tragic but inspiring story of a good- natured Muslim woman who tries, without success, to identify the remains of her son who was killed in the Bosnian War and buried in one of the many mass graves.
Košnice | Hives
directed by Igor Šeregi, Boaz Debby, Michael Lennox, Simon Dolensky, Tomaš Kratochvil
2012 | 72’ | dcp | Colour | Drama, Comedy
production company Academy of Dramatic Art (adu)
festivals San Sebastian - Int. Film Students Meeting 2012
Five people are united by a common thread – they are listening to urgent news reports about the disappearance of bees. They are all trying their best, living in their own hives: in Zagreb, Jerusalem, London, Cologne and Prague.
FICTION FILMS:
Krugovi | Circles
directed by Srdan Golubović
2013 | 112’ | 35mm | Coulor | Drama
production company Baš Čelik (ser), Propeler Film (cro) international sales Memento Films International
festivals 2013 Sundance, Berlinale Forum, Sofia ff
Taking a fatal act of violence during the Bosnian War as its starting point, Circles traces out the subsequent fates of those involved, all of whose relationships are marked by deep wounds and bitterness even today. (Berlinale Forum)
Pismo ćaći | A Letter to My Dad
directed by Damir Čučić
2012 | 72’ | dcp | Colour | Drama, Debut Feature
production company Croatian Films’ Association (hfs)
festivals 2013 Goteborg ff, Crossing Europe
Linz Milivoj cannot liberate himself of the fear that he is turning into ‘his father’s son’ and that the father’s life is a projection of his future. Trying to prove his superiority, he tapes a confessional video-letter to his Dad.
Sonja i bik | Sonja and the Bull
directed by Vlatka Vorkapić
2012 | 106’ | dcp | Colour | Romantic Comedy
production company Interfilm
festivals Pula ff 2012, Houston ff 2013
Sonja, a city girl, vegetarian and hardcore animal-rights activist, strongly opposes bullfighting. Bets get raised that she would not dare to face a bull, but the real challenge turns out to be Ante - the handsome son of her “enemy”.
Zagrebačke priče 2 - Ljubav | Zagreb Stories 2 - Love
directed by Hana Veček, Radislav Jovanov Gonzo, Josip Visković, Sara Hribar, Aldo Tardozzi, Ivan Sikavica
2012 | 110’ | dcp | Omnibus | Comedy, Drama, Romance
production company Propeler Film; in co-production with Restart (slo), Alka Film (cro), f&me (uk)
festivals Pula ff 2012, Sofia ff 2013
Following the great success of Zagreb Stories (2009), Propel- er Film produced a new omnibus consisting of six new interesting stories about love and family in present-day Zagreb.
Babysitter
2012 | 23’ | hdcam | Colour
directed by Ivan Sikavica
production company Academy of Dramatic Art (adu)
Čiks thinks that life is always better somewhere else, other than the place where he happens to be at any particular time – but are faraway hills really as green as he believes them to be?
Ja sam svoj život posložila / I’m a Self-Made Women 2012
| 26’52” | Beta sp | Colour
directed by Sonja Tarokić
production company Academy of Dramatic Art (adu)
When dreaming of a soap opera kind of life, it is a sister’s job to jump in! Željka’s younger sister Silvija begs her to let her spend the night at her place...
Kišobran / Umbrella 2012
| 17’42” | DigiBeta | Colour
directed by Jure Pavlović
production company Sekvenca
In the wee hours of the morning, Tea unexpectedly appears at Ivan’s door. Her explanation? She has just stopped by to pick up the umbrella she left behind by accident. The ensuing conversation, however, slowly reveals the true nature of their relationship.
Mali debeli rakun / The Little Raccoon 2013
| 25’ | hd | Colour est
directed by Barbara Vekarić
production Company Academy of Dramatic Art (adu), Film organization Motion (FUM)
Set in 1991 in wartime Dubrovnik, The Little Raccoon shows the perspective of 8-years-old Lily as the bombs begin to fall. She prepares to evacuate from her home- town with her pregnant mother, leaving her beloved father behind.
Mucica / Sweetie 2012
| 11’20” | dcp | Colour
directed by Aldo Tardozzi
production company Propeler Film; in co-production with Restart (slo), Alka Film (cro), F&ME (uk)
Today is the day when Tvrtko must choose the right path – the path to school.
Od danas do sutra / From One Day to Another
directed by Sara Hribar
2012 | 20’30” | dcp | Colour
production company Propeler Film; in co-production with Restart (slo), Alka Film (cro), F&ME (uk)
A romantic drama about a young couple, which is, more or less successfully, coping with the obligatory clichés about modern married life and the limits that society puts on it.
Rom Kom / Rom Com
2012 | 30’ | DigiBeta |
Colour directed by Zvonimir Rumbolt production company 4 Film We meet Her and Him, lost in the embrace on the set filming the soap opera, as the main characters of the hit series, and anti-heroes of their own lives. The story leads them into battle with their erotic desires, the growing instant media fame, and the contempt and envy of their underpaid colleagues who find consolation in mocking them with self-sufficient art snobbery.
Terarij / Terrarium 2
012 | 25’ | DigiBeta | Colour
directed by Hana Jušić
production company Academy of Dramatic Art (adu)
Tina and her cousin Max cannot stand their Grandma’s bad soup, the scorching summer heat or their endless, utter boredom any more. Both of them wish they were somewhere else, with other people. Unfortunately, they only have each other.
ANIMATED FILMS
Fibonaccijev kruh / Fibonacci Bread
2013 | 7’40” | 35mm, DigiBeta | Colour
directed by Danijel Žeželj
production company Zagreb film; in co-production with Petikat
Fibonacci Bread is set in the heart of an urban landscape, in the sliver of time between yesterday and tomorrow. Our main character, a bread maker, spends his nights baking spiral- shaped pastries. In the pre- dawn hours he rides his bicycle, distributing them to local homeless people...
Fliper / Pinball
2012 | 7’30” | hdcam | Colour
directed by Darko Vidačković
production company Bonobostudio
Just like in a dynamic pinball game, the trajectory of the ball after launching is not pre-determined. The player’s actions direct the ball, make sense of its movements, and leave their trace, but they do not affect its direction or fate in the long run.
Ja već znam što čujem / I Already Know What I Hear
2012 | 5’ | hdcam | Colour
directed by Darko Masnec
production company Academy of Fine Arts (ALU);
in co- production with Zagreb film
Communication is a lack that I can sense, through things I am unable to say. But this lack is not a black hole; it is a space that fills itself.
Zašto slonovi? / Why Elephants?
2012 | 8’ | 35mm | Colour
directed by Marko Meštrović production company Kreativni sindikat; in co-production with Zagreb film
The main character is trying to give an answer to a simple question. He is wandering through a labyrinth of intuitive visions. In some particular way this question seems to deter- mine his life. His answer is always the same... Do we have any answers to the big important questions?
Short Film Corner: Experimental Films
Site Selection 2012
| 3’ | SD video | Colour
directed by Mare Šuljak
production company Kinoklub Zagreb
A fox wanders around the empty city, looking for a place of its own.
Short Film Corner: Documentary Films
Presuda / The Verdict
directed by Đuro Gavran
production company Pipser
2013 | 11’ | dcp | Colour
Sixteen years after the war, in the main square of Zagreb several thousand people gathered to watch a live broad- cast of the verdict to Croatian generals. Through a series of close-ups, the film documents the eruption of emotions caused by the verdict.
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