How Come It’s All Green Out Here? Marked the Midpoint of the Festival Week

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, celebrated for his cult 2010 debut Tilva Rosh. Led by Ležaić himself, the film crew—including producers Siniša Juričić and Marija Lero, cinematographer Aleksandar Pavlović, and actors Filip Đurić and Izudin Bajrović—enhanced the screening experience of this atmospheric meditation on identity. Presented as part of the intercultural programme Welcome to ZFF, the film was screened with Arabic and English subtitles, followed by a Q&A with the director and his team moderated by the festival’s executive producer Barbara Gregov.

That same evening at CineStar Branimir, the festival also screened Solomamma by Norwegian director Janicke Askevold, with lead actress Lisa Loven Kongsli, already familiar to ZFF audiences for her role in Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure (2014), in attendance. Following the screening, Kongsli joined the festival’s program director Selma Mehadžić for a post-screening conversation, where she shared more about this fresh and compelling portrayal of single parenthood.

Thursday at ZFF was also marked by three guest appearances and one masterclass. Tibério Azul, producer of the Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro’s dystopian story The Blue Trail, joined Ana Marija Marinov for a post-screening conversation at CineStar Branimir. Meanwhile, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, film critic Nino Kovačić hosted Q&As with Gabrielė Urbonaitė (Renovation) and Alexandra Makarová (Perla), both featured in the Network of Festivals of the Adriatic Region program. In collaboration with Restart, the KIC venue welcomed Ivana Mladenović, award-winning filmmaker and ZFF laureate, for a masterclass centered on her film Sorella di Clausura, shown in this year’s Together Again section. The session was moderated by Jelena Pašić.

The Zagreb Film Festival is held with the support of the City Office for Culture and Civil Society, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Creative Europe – MEDIA sub-programme, Kultura Nova Foundation, and the Zagreb Tourist Board.