Sunday at ZFF

After six dynamic festival days, the awards ceremony, and the official closing of the program with Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother, the audience will have the opportunity to see several titles from this year’s lineup on Sunday, November 16.

Sunday’s program at CineStar Branimir begins at 4:00 PM with the screening of Bouchra by directors Orian Barki and Meriam Bennani, focusing on a 35-year-old Moroccan artist whose phone call with her mother brings her far back into the past. Screening at 6:30 PM is Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier, Norway’s Oscar contender and this year’s recipient of the Golden Bicycle for Best Film in the Together Again programme. This film, “of complex and impressive directing, emotional depth, lavish and imaginative dramaturgical structure,” fully captivated this year’s Together Again jury, composed of Tina Tišljar, Bruno Anković, and Dora Šustić.

On Sunday at 4:00 PM, this year’s ZFF audience has a special opportunity to experience on the big screen Yorgos Lanthimos’ darkly humorous absurdist drama Dogtooth (2009), the film that first introduced the distinctive Greek director to a wider audience. The screening is presented in a restored edition on the occasion of the masterclass by editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis, held on Saturday, November 15, at Kino Kinoteka.

Sunday at ZFF features a repeat screening of this year’s closing film, the comedic family triptych of subdued emotion Father Mother Sister Brother by the legendary American director Jim Jarmusch. The film screens at 8:30 PM, simultaneously with another showing of the hilarious biker romance Pillion by Harry Lighton, starring Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling.

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU) cinema on Sunday at 4:00 PM hosts Savages, the winning title of the KinoKino program at the 23rd ZFF, selected by the children’s jury. This new animated feature by Claude Barras (My Life as a Zucchini, ZFF 2016), created using stop-motion animation, takes us deep into the heart of the Bornean rainforest, where the heroine Kéria fights to save her home. The film screens as part of the inter-cultural program Welcome to ZFF with Arabic and Croatian subtitles. Following Savages, the program continues with Sorry, Baby (6:00 PM) by Eve Victor and Miroirs No. 3 (8:30 PM) directed by Christian Petzold, one of the most prominent contemporary German filmmakers. Sorry, Baby screens in English with Ukrainian and Croatian subtitles.

The Festivals in the Spotlight program continues today with the screening of the feature film Where the Wind Comes From by Tunisian director Amel Guellaty, coming to Zagreb from the Split Mediterranean Film Festival. The film will be shown at 7:30 PM at KIC (Preradovićeva 18), and admission is free.

Sunday is also the last day to watch the films that were available online during the festival on the official festival website. Among them is Shallow Ground by Jozo Schmuch, winner of the Golden Pram for Best Croatian Film in the Checkers program at the 23rd ZFF.

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.