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On the eve of Saturday’s Golden Pram awards ceremony, two final titles from this year’s feature film competition will be screened at CineStar Branimir. The day starts at 10:30 a.m. with A Poet, the second feature by Colombian director Simón Mesa Soto, Colombia’s official submission for the Oscars....

The fourth day of the festival will be remembered for the packed screening of How Come It’s All Green Out Here?, the final regional title in this year’s main competition. The winner of the Pula Film Festival’s Minority Co-production Award marks the long-awaited return of filmmaker Nikola Ležaić,...

Due to great interest, on Saturday, 15 November at 16 h, there will be an additional screening of DJ Ahmet by director Georgij M. Unkovski at the Museum of Contemporary Art. This film about a fifteen-year-old shepherd with musical ambitions won the Audience Award and the Special Jury...

Thursday at ZFF features the last regional title of this year’s main competition program: the Pula winner in the minority productions category, How Come It’s All Green Out Here? by Serbian director Nikola Ležaić. This atmospheric meditation on memory, space, and identity is the long-awaited project from the...

On Wednesday, November 12, the Croatian premiere of Stefan Đorđević’s Wind, Talk to Me, this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival winner, was held at CineStar Branimir before a large ZFF audience. This deeply intimate project, which blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality, attracted many prominent figures from Zagreb’s...

On Wednesday, November 12, the third day of the festival brings the Croatian premiere of Sorry, Baby, the feature debut of American director and actress Eva Victor. Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at Sundance, this warm and unusually witty story follows protagonist Agnes as she recovers from...

Tuesday at ZFF brought the Croatian premiere of Hana Jušić’s highly anticipated new film, along with four sold-out screenings As part of the 23rd ZFF, the Croatian premiere of the highly anticipated historical drama God Will Not Help, directed and written by Hana Jušić, was held on Tuesday,...

As part of its long-term sustainable development goals, the Zagreb Film Festival strives to integrate environmental, social, and organizational principles of sustainability into its program and activities. Since the key to any real change lies in the community, social engagement and inclusivity are of fundamental importance in ZFF’s...

After the 23rd edition of the Zagreb Film Festival kicked off on Monday, November 10, with a packed screening of DJ Ahmet at CineStar Branimir, the main feature competition program continues at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. with the Croatian premiere of the “strikingly atmospheric” (Variety) historical drama...

At the opening ceremony of the 23rd the Zagreb Film Festival, the traditional Albert Kapović Award was presented to the producers Vanja Jambrović and Tibor Keser. Established in 2010 to commemorate the early departed founder of Croatian Audiovisual Center, Albert Kapović, the award is granted by the Croatian...

The 23rd edition of the Zagreb Film Festival was officially opened on Monday, November 10, at a packed CineStar Branimir with the screening of DJ Ahmet, an unbelievably witty and visually striking coming-of-age film directed by Macedonian filmmaker Georgij M. Unkovski. In addition to festival representatives, director Boris....

For the fourteenth consecutive year, ZFF’s Industry will bring together film professionals from the region and across Europe through a range of programs dedicated to project development, collaboration, and networking, transforming the festival into a space for active professional growth.  ZFF’s educational platform Industry will once again host a number...