Today, on the last day of 14th LFF, we find out which of the 22 films in competition will get award and audience awards. Off program brings the premiere of the first episode of HRT's series Working Men's Culture and the fifth edition of Coffee with the author, moderated daily by the film critic Marko Njegić. This year's edition of LFF will be closed with the concert by This Connection, a band from Rijeka.
Awards and program on the Summer stage
Tonight at 10 PM, the festival jury consisting of Tiha K. Gudac (best film award at 13th Liburnia Film Festival for „The Naked Island“), Carolina Mancini (chief editor of a magazine on film and audio-visual industry „Cinema&Video International“), Zoran Medved (musician, sound designer and producer), Marko Njegić (film critic and journalist) and Dragan von Petrović (best editing award at 13th LFF) will make their decision public – who will win six jury awards (Best film, Best regional film, Best directing, best editing and Best sound editing). The audience of LFF also diligently gave out grades for the films, and tonight, we will find out who won their award.
Tonight's film program starts from 8:30 PM. After having seen all film sin the competition, today we will be screening films of the off program produced by Restart, LFF co-organizer. Before the flags by Sanja Bistričić will have its festival premiere, as well as Go hard or go home by Dražen Puklavec, films made as a part of Restart's School of Documentary. With United front of opportunists by Dejan Oblak and Vedran Senjanović, we will be reminded of the elections from 2012; in awarded documentary Something about life by Nebojša Slijepčević we will follow the life of eight underage girls, and in Dragon woman by Ivana Sansević, three girls suffering from anorexia and bulimia. Ivan Ramljak's Islands of forgotten cinemas will be the special treat for the audience, discussing the lost culture of visiting cinemas in small towns.
Premiere in Villa Antonio and conversations about the culture in small communities
Series Working Men's Culture deals with the production of cultural events and manifestations, and we will be watching it this fall on HRT. Director Tiha K. Gudac chose LFF to screen the premiere of the series' first episode, in which we find out how culture is created in the largest town of Dugi otok, Sali. After the film, Roberto Santoro (MUFić), Barbara Babačić (Op.Art, Mandrać) i Lada Sega (Air Art Festival, Eko Susak) will talk about the experiences, opportunities and challenges of organizing cultural and artistic events and programs in small towns of Liburnia. The talk will be moderated by „LFF's dad“ – Igor Bajok.
To celebrate the end of Liburnia documentary week, a band from Rijeka This Connection will be playing for us at Old School Pub. Kristijan Pejić, Edin Haliti, Zlatko Trošelj i Dalibor Peršić are returning after a two-year break with a new sound, and the concert is free.
Entrance to all accompanying events of the festival (at Caffe bar Eugenian and Villa Antonio) is free, while tickets for The summer stage are 15 kunas.
