Another rich day of LFF brings music, conversational programme and, of course, projections of excellent documentaries! In the programme of movies in the competition for awards we bring six titles, two of which are world premieres. In the off programme we are watching a movie about Rijeka and D’Annunzio and then we are talking with the authors of the movies, within the State of Emergency programme, about the extremism in the movies.
The movies in the competition for audience awards and jury awards
Tomorrow we will find out who takes home the LFF’s statues. The six movies that we will have a chance to watch today on the little Summer Stage have a chance to win the statues made by the artist Saša Jantolek from Kastav. Among them are two world premieres!
Ivan Delimar’s Rope Workshop opens the first slot at 8:15 pm. It is a movie by one of the greatest living Croatian performers, Vlasta Delimar. In the desire to fulfil her father’s last wish to be buried at his property in Štaglinac, which she is stopped at because the laws of Croatia forbid it, Delimar buries her father’s workshop and films a movie about it which has the world premier today, at LFF.
Nikolina Barić in her movie, Doctor, I’m Going to My Grave, also tells a story about one of her parents. This movie is another world premier today. Her mother is a doctor of family medicine in Zagorje and the movie gives a realistic insight in our health system by following her while getting her daily tasks done in her workplace. After the movie, it will be clear to you why Croatian doctors leave to work abroad.
And how looks a work day in the funeral company you can find out in a movie May Your Soul Rest Insured Ante Mitrović. The atmosphere that prevails in their work area will give you an idea about their profession.
By reading the entries from her teenager diary, Anita Čeko remembers her athletic days in the movie An Apple, Three Toasts, a Yoghurt. The movie has been awarded on the West Herzegowina Fest 2019. (the special recognition), at the Croatian Revue of Filmmaking 2019. (the second award) and on Tabor Film Festival 2019. (the special recognition). This movie opens the second programme slot at 10:30 pm.
Another already awarded movie in the second programme slot is brought by Tomislav Žaja. Ivan’s Game is a movie about a suddenly interrupted career and a life of a football player Ivan Gudelj, who has managed to rise above a tough illness and the troubles that befell on him and turn over the result in the, already lost, life match. The movie has, few weeks ago, won the award for the best sport documentary at the Austria International Film Festival.
The Last Picture Show is of the symbolic title as it closes the programme of the movies in the competition programme in the 18thLFF. It is a warm story about Joža, “informal janitor” of the cinema Europe in the last days before the closing of this Zagreb’s cultural institution. Jasmina Beširević brings, through Joža’s story, the story about the end of one era.
Tonight, at exactly midnight, we are preparing the special musical – cinematic event! We are hosting Ludwig Sarski’s Orchestra, which is made of international artists and musicians on the clarinet, piano, harmonica and percussion. Their live performance includes their own, original cinematic music on the silent movie City Lights by Charlie Chaplin.
Today we will talk a bit more about movies!
Apart from our usual Drink with Authors, which is held every day at 4:30 pm in Caffe bar Eugenian, we are inviting you to the round table “Small and big (fasc)isms” that will be held in Villa Antonio at 6:30 pm. It is the part of this year’s programme The State of Emergency within which you have a chance to watch six international documentary and one Croatian feature documentary that deal with extreme political aspirations in Europe. Today we will talk about extremism in the movies with authors of those movies and our national context will be brought by the directors Dana Budisavljević (The Diary of Diana B.), Jadran Boban (That Other Village) and Marin Lukanović ( The Invisible City: La Materia Non Conta). The moderator is Boris Ružić. The programme The State of Emergency is a part of the programme Times of Power by The European Capital of Culture – Rijeka 2020.
Before the round table, as a good overture to fascism, in the Villa Antonio, starting at 5:30 pm, we will be watching The Invisible City: La Materia Non Conta by the French director Pierre Commault who deals with the topics of Rijeka and D’Annunzio’s legacy.
