The buzzy regional event attrracted festival programmers from Cannes, Berlin and around the world.
Croatian director Sonja Tarokić’s debut feature The Staffroom was the big winner at the 69th edition of the Pula Film Festival when it received nine awards at the closing ceremony at the weekend in the port’s 2,000 year-old Roman amphitheatre.
The Croatian Programme Jury, headed by Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky, presented the film with the festival’s main award, the Grand Golden Arena for best festival film, as well as Golden Arenas for best director, best actor for Stojan Matavulj , best supporting actress, and best editing.
Croatian director Sonja Tarokić’s debut feature The Staffroom was the big winner at the 69th edition of the Pula Film Festival when it received nine awards at the closing ceremony at the weekend in the port’s 2,000 year-old Roman amphitheatre.
The Croatian Programme Jury, headed by Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky, presented the film with the festival’s main award, the Grand Golden Arena for best festival film, as well as Golden Arenas for best director, best actor for Stojan Matavulj , best supporting actress, and best editing.
- 7/25/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The Coronavirus is having a widespread impact on people, governments, businesses, and events around the world, and the Fantaspoa Film Festival announced that it will postpone this year's event, with plans to launch "Fantaspoa at Home" to offer seven feature films every week at www.fantaspoaathome.com starting April 1st:
Porto Alegre, Brazil - 24 March 2019 - It is with great sorrow and heavy hearts that the Fantaspoa Film Festival announces that it will postpone its upcoming 16th edition due to the Covid-19 pandemic currently sweeping the world. Initially scheduled for this coming May, the festival directors forecast that this year's edition will now take place between the months of October and December, 2020, if deemed responsible and safe at that time.
Due to executive decisions made by the Brazilian government prior to this unprecedented health crisis, Fantaspoa and countless other organizations dedicated to the arts were stripped of all federal sponsorship money.
Porto Alegre, Brazil - 24 March 2019 - It is with great sorrow and heavy hearts that the Fantaspoa Film Festival announces that it will postpone its upcoming 16th edition due to the Covid-19 pandemic currently sweeping the world. Initially scheduled for this coming May, the festival directors forecast that this year's edition will now take place between the months of October and December, 2020, if deemed responsible and safe at that time.
Due to executive decisions made by the Brazilian government prior to this unprecedented health crisis, Fantaspoa and countless other organizations dedicated to the arts were stripped of all federal sponsorship money.
- 3/24/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
“Worst birthday ever” doesn’t begin to cover the magnitude of what befalls our protagonist in “Goran.” Fast-rising Croatian helmer Nevio Marasovic’s third professional feature — he’s made a well-received fourth, “Comic Sans,” since this one premiered at Fantasia nearly two years ago — is not so much a psychological thriller as an emotional horror movie, in which the title character’s fortunes go from bad to unimaginably worse. Holding its poker face to the bitter end, this is a black comedy whose slow burn nonetheless eventually leaves no one unconsumed by the flame of cruel fate. Uncork’d is giving it a limited U.S. theatrical release starting this Friday.
Goran (Franjo Dijak) is an uncomplicated guy who enjoys drinking (maybe a little too often), driving a cab (in a podunk town where it’s scarcely needed) and hanging out with bestie Slavko (Goran Bogdan) at a cabin where...
Goran (Franjo Dijak) is an uncomplicated guy who enjoys drinking (maybe a little too often), driving a cab (in a podunk town where it’s scarcely needed) and hanging out with bestie Slavko (Goran Bogdan) at a cabin where...
- 4/26/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
The Venice Film Market will showcase 15 projects seeking completion financing.
Now in its second year, the Venice Film Market’s European Gap-Financing Market, which runs September 4-5 in 2015, will highlight 15 film in search of completion funding.
To qualify, each film must already have secured 70% of its financing. They will have the opportunity to close their international funding by having one-on-one meetings with potential financiers, distributors, sales agents, post-production companies and film funds.
Last year, the Vfm welcomed 261 distributors and 66 sales agents to the market. A total of 1,500 film professionals from 57 countries attended.
Full list:
#flora63 by Stéphane Robelin (France/Belgium/Germany)
Bianco by Daniele Vicari (Italy/France)
Letters from War by Ivo Ferreira (Portugal)
Comic Sans by Nevio Marasovic (Croatia/ Slovenia)
Diamond Island by Davy Chou (France/ Cambodia)
The Eremites by Ronny Trocker (Germany)
Freaking by Julia Ducournau (France/ Belgium/ Switzerland)
Children of the Night by Andrea De Sica (Italy)
The Bank of Broken Hearts by [link...
Now in its second year, the Venice Film Market’s European Gap-Financing Market, which runs September 4-5 in 2015, will highlight 15 film in search of completion funding.
To qualify, each film must already have secured 70% of its financing. They will have the opportunity to close their international funding by having one-on-one meetings with potential financiers, distributors, sales agents, post-production companies and film funds.
Last year, the Vfm welcomed 261 distributors and 66 sales agents to the market. A total of 1,500 film professionals from 57 countries attended.
Full list:
#flora63 by Stéphane Robelin (France/Belgium/Germany)
Bianco by Daniele Vicari (Italy/France)
Letters from War by Ivo Ferreira (Portugal)
Comic Sans by Nevio Marasovic (Croatia/ Slovenia)
Diamond Island by Davy Chou (France/ Cambodia)
The Eremites by Ronny Trocker (Germany)
Freaking by Julia Ducournau (France/ Belgium/ Switzerland)
Children of the Night by Andrea De Sica (Italy)
The Bank of Broken Hearts by [link...
- 7/24/2015
- ScreenDaily
Filmmakers from across Europe to take part in pilot forum.
The European Genre Forum (Nov 24-28), a new creative camp for film talent, is to be piloted during the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-30).
A total of 16 filmmakers with projects in development will take part in panels on sales, promotion and festival strategy, a storytelling workshop, a business development workshop, networking events, one-to-one meetings and a pitching session for on-going projects.
The directing and producing talents include:
Seth Ickerman (Spain)Helen Lõhmus & Oskar Lehemaa (Estonia)Talal Selhami (France)Aleksi Hyvärinen, Misha Jaari and Vesa Virtanen (Finland)Nevio Marasovic and Vanja Vascarac (Croatia)Tea Korolija (Serbia)Aik Karpetian (Latvia)
The pilot forum is organized in partnership with Night Visions Film Festival (Helsinki), Zagreb Fantastic Ff (Zagreb) and Screen Division Consultancy (Paris).
The European Genre Forum (Nov 24-28), a new creative camp for film talent, is to be piloted during the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-30).
A total of 16 filmmakers with projects in development will take part in panels on sales, promotion and festival strategy, a storytelling workshop, a business development workshop, networking events, one-to-one meetings and a pitching session for on-going projects.
The directing and producing talents include:
Seth Ickerman (Spain)Helen Lõhmus & Oskar Lehemaa (Estonia)Talal Selhami (France)Aleksi Hyvärinen, Misha Jaari and Vesa Virtanen (Finland)Nevio Marasovic and Vanja Vascarac (Croatia)Tea Korolija (Serbia)Aik Karpetian (Latvia)
The pilot forum is organized in partnership with Night Visions Film Festival (Helsinki), Zagreb Fantastic Ff (Zagreb) and Screen Division Consultancy (Paris).
- 11/12/2014
- ScreenDaily
Icelandic director Bendikt Erlingsson’s Of Horses And Men won the Golden Iris Award, the top prize at the 12th Brussels Film Festival.Scroll down for full list of winners
Of Horses And Men won €10,000 ($13,600) and beat out 11 other competitors at the festival, which ran from June 6-14.
The drama about the deep relationships between members of a small Icelandic community and their horses debuted in Iceland last August and has toured the festival circuit ever since, beginning with the San Sebastian Film Festival in September. It was released in the UK last weekend.
Other notable winners included Swedish director Anna Odell’s The Reunion, which won the White Iris Award for best first film, as well as €2,500 ($3,400).
Odell’s feature about her imagined high school reunion picked up two other prizes at the festival, the Fedex Cinephile Award and the Rtbf TV Prize of Best Film.
Another film that scooped multiple awards was Farewell To The...
Of Horses And Men won €10,000 ($13,600) and beat out 11 other competitors at the festival, which ran from June 6-14.
The drama about the deep relationships between members of a small Icelandic community and their horses debuted in Iceland last August and has toured the festival circuit ever since, beginning with the San Sebastian Film Festival in September. It was released in the UK last weekend.
Other notable winners included Swedish director Anna Odell’s The Reunion, which won the White Iris Award for best first film, as well as €2,500 ($3,400).
Odell’s feature about her imagined high school reunion picked up two other prizes at the festival, the Fedex Cinephile Award and the Rtbf TV Prize of Best Film.
Another film that scooped multiple awards was Farewell To The...
- 6/17/2014
- ScreenDaily
Ritesh Batra’s romantic drama picks up Golden Pram.
The 11th Zagreb Film Festival (Oct 20-27), held in the Croatian capital, has concluded with Ritesh Barta’s The Lunchbox winning the main award
The heartwarming film, which stars Irrfan Khan and debuted at Cannes in May, won the Golden Pram for best feature film.
Khan plays a disillusioned government servant who starts a relationship with a housewife (Nimrat Kaur) through notes in a mis-delivered lunchbox.
In the competition of ten other first or second films by their directors, a special mention went to Croatia’s Nevio Marasovic for Vis-à-Vis, which is about a film director and his lead actor trying to bond on an isolated island.
The main jury was composed of film critic Leo Barraclough, Romanian producer Ada Solomon, and Serbian director Srdan Golubovic, whose Circles closed the festival.
German director Andy Wolff won the Golden Pram for best documentary for The Captain And His Pirate, while...
The 11th Zagreb Film Festival (Oct 20-27), held in the Croatian capital, has concluded with Ritesh Barta’s The Lunchbox winning the main award
The heartwarming film, which stars Irrfan Khan and debuted at Cannes in May, won the Golden Pram for best feature film.
Khan plays a disillusioned government servant who starts a relationship with a housewife (Nimrat Kaur) through notes in a mis-delivered lunchbox.
In the competition of ten other first or second films by their directors, a special mention went to Croatia’s Nevio Marasovic for Vis-à-Vis, which is about a film director and his lead actor trying to bond on an isolated island.
The main jury was composed of film critic Leo Barraclough, Romanian producer Ada Solomon, and Serbian director Srdan Golubovic, whose Circles closed the festival.
German director Andy Wolff won the Golden Pram for best documentary for The Captain And His Pirate, while...
- 10/27/2013
- ScreenDaily
Cowboys wins audience award, Hush also wins multiple prizes.
The 60th Pula Film Festival – the country’s national film festival — comes to a close today celebrating a particularly strong year for Croatian film. Co-production Circles and Croatian national production A Stranger [pictured] each won a slew of top prizes.
Croatian filmmaking is having something of a boom time at the moment, both in terms of number of productions and their international appeal – both Circles and A Stranger played in Berlin’s Forum, and Dual and The Priest’s Children were buzzy titles in Karlovy Vary earlier this month.
Pula presented a record 24 titles in its competitions for national films and minority co-productions. The healthy levels of production are in part due to support from the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, but also seeing local broadcasters backing films for the first time in 9 years — such as festival opening comedy Handymen (Majstori) by Dalibor Matanic.
Of course...
The 60th Pula Film Festival – the country’s national film festival — comes to a close today celebrating a particularly strong year for Croatian film. Co-production Circles and Croatian national production A Stranger [pictured] each won a slew of top prizes.
Croatian filmmaking is having something of a boom time at the moment, both in terms of number of productions and their international appeal – both Circles and A Stranger played in Berlin’s Forum, and Dual and The Priest’s Children were buzzy titles in Karlovy Vary earlier this month.
Pula presented a record 24 titles in its competitions for national films and minority co-productions. The healthy levels of production are in part due to support from the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, but also seeing local broadcasters backing films for the first time in 9 years — such as festival opening comedy Handymen (Majstori) by Dalibor Matanic.
Of course...
- 7/28/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
When Croatian director Nevio Marasovic caught wind of Charlie Brooker's Dead Set - a show about Big Brother contestants surviving a zombie holocaust - his heart sank. He had been working on his own big budget apocalypse actioner set against the concept of the reality show for years and it's every filmmakers worst fear to realize someone might turn around and say, "oh, it's like that other movie" about your film.
The truth is, there is more than enough room for films that bridge similar territory as long as each brings a little something new to the table. How many zombie movies come out every year? How many of them are really all that different in the end?
Plus, The Show Must Go On isn't even about zombies. Without a synopsis it's tough to be sure, but from the English subbed trailer we've just been sent, it seems more...
The truth is, there is more than enough room for films that bridge similar territory as long as each brings a little something new to the table. How many zombie movies come out every year? How many of them are really all that different in the end?
Plus, The Show Must Go On isn't even about zombies. Without a synopsis it's tough to be sure, but from the English subbed trailer we've just been sent, it seems more...
- 2/9/2010
- QuietEarth.us
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