ZLATKO VIDAČKOVIĆ, IVA ROSANDA ŽIGO: CROATIAN FILM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Publisher The Metropolis Art Organisation and Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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12 July 2024 – 11 a.m.
This large-format monograph, spanning 184 pages, is a multidisciplinary analysis of the overall contemporary Croatian fiction film production presenting 190 Croatian feature films and compounding 664 newspaper film reviews. The 12 chapters presents film as the mass media of today, the context of changing the reception of Croatian film in the 21st century, the writers whose works have been adapted into films the most, the key directors and genres of Croatian fiction film and their critical reception, the social topics and subjects of Croatian film, and Croatian film as interpreter of the social and cultural reality.
HRVOJE IVANKOVIĆ: DUBROVNIK AS A FILM SET
Publisher: Croatian Film Association
Editor: Diana Nenadić
book presenters: Dinana Nenadić and Ivan Žaknić
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13 July 2024 – 11 a.m.
By the start of World War II, Dubrovnik and its surroundings saw the filming of more than fifty fiction films produced by Hungarian, German, Austrian, Czechoslovakian, and Polish companies. The book is a detailed study of this exciting and less known part of the history of filmmaking in Croatia, exploring the biographies of people involved in making the films, the reasons they chose Dubrovnik, the circumstances they worked in, the thematic and aesthetic characteristics, the reception by the critics, the place the films earned in their national cinemas, as well as the reactions they experienced in the Dubrovnik area and beyond, in the Croatian and Yugoslav environment. Relying on various sources, from archival documents to scholarly or non-fiction books and papers to old newspapers and journals, the author endeavoured to get to all the films he knew of or he assumed had been filmed in Dubrovnik, which brought him to finding the oldest preserved fiction films filmed on the territory of present-day Croatia.
NENAD DUKIĆ: FILM FESTIVALS
Publisher / Film Center Serbia
Editor / Miroljub Stojanović
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15. 7. 2024. – 11:00 / 15 July 2024 – 11 a.m.
There is no one generally accepted system of categorising film festivals. The prevailing system is the categorisation established by the International Federation of Film Producers, observed by almost all European festivals, but not widely used in some parts of the world, for example, in the United States of America. Hence, this overview of the types of film festivals, resulting from the use of different parameters and various sources. This book is an interesting read not only for students and the film industry, but for all film enthusiasts.
WORDS BEHIND IMAGES: REPRODUCTION OF STORYBOARDS OF CROATIAN FILM CLASSICS FROM THE COLLECTION OF CROATIAN STATE ARCHIVES – KAYA!
Publisher / Croatian State Archives
Editor / Mladen Burić
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16 July 2024 – 11 a.m.
The new edition of Words Behind Images – Reproduction of Storyboards of Croatian Film Classics from the Collection of Croatian Film Archives – Kaya! is certainly one of the most memorable achievements of director Vatroslav Mimica. At first disputed and booed, but later recognised as an outstanding achievement of European modern film, this treatise on human nature and evil was a result of cooperation with writer and screenwriter Kruno Quien and is based on a real event from World War II. This original storyboard, full of interventions, illustrations, and collages, gives an insight into the author’s creative process. Other than the original storyboard, revealing the process of making the film Kaya!, the book also includes texts by Marina Vujić and Mario Kozina about the perception of the film, both from a personal perspective and in the context of the work of Vatroslav Mimica in the framework of Croatian film. Especially interesting are the texts on remembering Lordan Zafranović and Vatroslav Mimica by Nataša Mišković, and the biographical texts on the authors and cast by film expert and film archivist Juraj Kukoč.
