Films
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Every social environment produces different patterns of behavior, biological and social. The consequences of various inequalities and conflicts. But what happens when two similarities "conflict" and how does it reflect on a work of art? „Whatif I Fail?“ is a work by twowomen, mothers and sculptors born in 1978, who met at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka after 17 years. The film...
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This is a story about the lesser-known aspects of Borivoj Dovniković Bordo, the Croatian and world master of animation, namely his comic book production. Now aged 83, Bordo still draws and is one of the oldest active comic artists in the world. When he emigrated to Austria in 1991, he provided for his family by drawing cartoons for local daily and weekly newspapers. His comics have been publish...
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The beginning of a biggest and most important adventure.
REGIONAL PROGRAM
„Return to Auschwitz“is a documentary film that takes us back almost seventy years to a time when the life of an individual was nothing but a number and to a place where the destiny of manybecame a part of the frightening statistics of Nazi death camps and their “industry of death”. Our protagonist, Mr. Oleg Mandic, who was eleven years old at the time of his imprisonment, along with his mother...
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Tourists and Workers. Krk Bridge, 16 August 2012
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Homesickness is a dream of belonging, being once FROM a place and not AT a place.- Zygmunt BaumanIn first sequences, the author of this film is showing her parents handing over their books to her and her own review of their heritage. She is placing both of her parents in the role of observers and narrators while they are watching old recordings of them that the author shot three years ago. The...
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Stella lives in Zagreb. She is thirteen and is different from others. She does not speak, does not walk and does not see almost anything. She can only move if assisted or in a wheelchair. Stella was born with a 100-percent disability: she has a complex cerebral paralysis, hypoplasia of corpus calosum, spinal tumor and a hard form of mental retardation.In order to make carrying of Stella from th...
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In recent seasons, the players and supporters of Medveščak ice hockey club have been excellent sporting ambassadors. What should havebeen a refreshment in sports, a rehabilitation of a sport with a certain tradition in Zagreb, turned out to be a real sensation. At a time when certain other sporting events in Croatia require security cordons of counter-terrorist police, and repressive legislatio...
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Documentary film that questions contemporary social values. It has been filmed in three different high schools in Zagreb whereby Croatian students were involved in multilayered conversations about the socialist past of their country, religion and history they had learned intertwined with the students’ views on civil rights, the notion of freedom, current social, political and economic situation...
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Sometimes even the biggest fear leads to deliverance. The end of an era in the life of a cult alternative club, for some means crash but for some just a mere new beginning. After 45 years of activities, the club is closing its door.Without portraying the history of the club, the film follows the emotional process which the employees and managers of the club are going through, counting down the...
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In 2013, Croatia has entered its fifth year of recession, with an unemployment rate of 20 percent. It joined the European Union and conservative activists banned gay marriages in Croatia. But the most popular news in 2013, according to Croatian websites, was the tragic death of Dolores Lambaša. The young actress was very keen on trying to get the public to like her, but wasn’t successful in her...
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On a journey to become a person we want to be, we share our happy and sad moments with friends. The more intense the problems are, the closer they push us together. Some friendships we manage to keep while growing up and some we loose on the way, but every one of them play an important role on who we are today. BFF is a film about friendship and growing up. Following a story of four girls over...
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When filmmaker Tatjana Božić has for the umpteenth time found the love of her life and again things threaten to go terribly wrong, she decides that she should turnover a new leaf. This relationship must succeed! Tatjana visits five exes in Moscow, Hamburg, London and Zagreb to find an answer to the question why all her love affairs always end on the rocks. With a good dose of self-mockery, but...
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„The Dandelion“ takes us to the unusual world of Istrian artist Darko Brajković which manifests itself in his small studio. His studio is a mess of shapes and colors. Through his work, Brajković contradicts not only the established social norms, but also the unwritten rules of life and art. He seeks a world free of the repressive restraints of intellect and logical legalities of classical rules...
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CONSUMED is a film about life’s most important minutes. The protagonists of the film are persons over the age of 55 – those who have more than 30 million minutes of life behind them. The most important minutes in their lives have already happened and their last minute is drawing nearer and nearer. The film shows their partaking in an audition and in the process of making a theatre performance a...
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In 2002, the Psychiatric Hospital Lopača, near Rijeka, started admitting children with behavioral disorders. Soon, controversial stories about the treatment of children began to spread.This public secret, weighing heavily on the city, is finally revealed in the painful testimonies of the former patients, their parents and the doctors of the Lopača hospital. Confronted by the shocking conformity...
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The dog Hux Flux is diagnosed with cancer. His mother Fig and the rest of his animal friends are conforting him, while his owners and his veterinarian are giving him the best medical and supportive care, combining classical medical and alternative treatment. The vet is filming the whole thing all the time.
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A documentary experiment about prisoners who film their lives in a maximum security penitentiary. Their personal testimonies turn to the window – their only view of life.
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„Once Again“ is a documentary film following the lives of five friends – four lesbians and one transsexual person – over the course of seven years, in the period from 2007 to 2013. Ana, Noah, Mima, Helena and Ivana have passed through several intense emotional relationships – they broke off and started new relationships, fell in love, fell out of love, got disappointed in themselves as well as...
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Can the family survive?
The film follows the situations and the atmosphere within the real estate faced with foreclosure.
This procedure involves a long time frame in which family Medak gets very used to the camera and it becomes part of their daily life. Meanwhile their normal life falls apart… This film will force you to ask yourselves how can a family function normaly, knowing that in 2 day...
LFF GUESTS
Three life backgrounds and three different ways of thinking related to one story. This film shows how entirely different people: a poet, a former headmistress of the home for elderly people and a married couple end up in the same place, in one Home for elderly people, where they are doomed to wait for their death. This documentary scratches under the dull surface of third age people, reveals th...
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The film follows the last log floater on the river Tara in Montenegro, a wild and very dangerous river. He is a descendant of the Pendek family, the once famous family of log floaters and ‘’Triftars’’ from Bastas in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On Splavište, Fikret has a log made of wooden trunks, weighing several tons. Together with around 10 impatient tourists, he is floating it down the strong an...
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The film follows Nives Jagodić in her research about her grandfather Dr. Joza Jagodić, doctor in Bjelovar's general hospital, who posthumously got the acknowledgement ‘’Righteous among the Nations’’. Through her travels and conversation with the man whose life was saved by Dr. Joza Jagodić, we will find how much he risked throughout the whole WW2 in order to save civilians from certain death. H...
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This short documentary follows the everyday life of the author's family. But he has a secret project within their daily routine. As the film advances, more questions come up – when and how will the family find out what is going on? And most importantly, what will their reactions be?
LFF GUESTS
Arsen Dedić is an esteemed Croatian songwriter, singer, poet and music producer. Croatian music lovers know all about his health problems, his charmed marriage to Gabi, who may be an even bigger star than him, and their son Matija, a renowned jazz pianist. But what is Arsen really like – and who is he? How far does his influence reach, and where exactly does he overlap with our lives? About the...
