As reported by Večernji list, this year’s 15th Vukovar Film Festival from August 25th to 29th brings a total of 41 film screenings with five documentaries, which will be shown at several locations in the city.
The artistic director of the festival, Dean Sinovčić, said at the press conference that the Vukovar festival is best known for its program, according to which no festival in Croatia “can compete” with it.
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He stated that a dozen films from the festival program are classic comedies to get people back in a good mood and that five films from the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival and several films from the Berlin and Venice festivals will be screened.
”Thus, we keep the quality that the Vukovar festival has offered in all previous years”, Sinovčić pointed out.
Festival director and executive director of Discovery film Igor Rakonić said that the festival opens with the film “Blue Flower”, directed by Zrinko Ogresta, as the winner of this year’s Pula Film Festival. He added that due to the announced cooling in the coming days, the screenings of films scheduled for screening on the terrace of the Agency for Waterways and the park of Eltz Castle will be moved to Hrvatski dom and Cinestar.
”The idea of this year’s festival is to stay strong in film, we hope that next year the pandemic will pass and that we will start living normally”, he added.
Regarding the implementation of epidemiological measures, Rakonić said that epidemiological measures would be respected at the festival, with a reduced number of spectators, but that vaccinated persons would certainly not be separated from unvaccinated ones.
Vukovar Mayor Ivan Penava expressed satisfaction that the festival has maintained continuity, as well as because this year’s, unlike last year’s, which was held in a closing atmosphere, is now returning to a more normal atmosphere.
Considering that this year’s festival is being held in the conditions of a pandemic, the organizers point out that this year there will be no usual awards ceremony, as well as accompanying entertainment and music activities.
They note that this does not apply to the traditional festival workshops that will be held, namely the Danube screenwriting workshop, the one-minute film workshop in one frame and the film workshop “From idea to realization”.
The organizers of the Vukovar Film Festival are the company Discovery film, the City of Vukovar, and the Hrvatski Dom Vukovar.
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