Boris T Matic, director of the Zabreb International Film Festival
Zagreb International Film FestivalBy Rada Djurica
The third Zagreb International Film Festival took place in October 2005, presenting films by studio or independent filmmakers in three main categories — feature films, short films and documentary films — as well as other aspects of film and multimedia projects.
While normally the Zagreb Student Center is primarily for students, during the festival, it was filled with former students and others, as well. The center is open to all generations as a meeting place for contemplating artistic ideas. Besides the competition program, there is the supporting program, in which every year the film production of a different political or cultural country is presented. That is in order to promote film art, directors, and their debut works. Priority is given to film making in other countries.
The official program is the selection of Ludmila Cvitkova, the Rotterdam Film Festival selector for Eastern Europe. The festival program included Romany and African films. With the support of the city, the African film screenings were coordinated by Cameron Bailey.
The festival also held a special program, Cubelets, a program dedicated to Croatian feature films, in collaboration with the CFA, the Croatian Film Association.
The most intriguing aspect of the festival program dealt with issue of domination. A part of the supporting program held book promotions, film and cultural projects, as well as multimedia presentations and entertainment programs. The Festival of the First, a part of the festival, recognized debut works in art on a given subject: in this case about domination.
The ZF Fest award is called the Golden Pram.
ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS
And the winners are:
In the feature film category, the Golden Pram went to Iceberg by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy. A special mention was given to the film Illumination by Pascale Breton.
In the short feature category, the Golden Pram went to the film Hibernation by John Williams. A special mention was given to the film In the Dark by Olivier Masset-Depasse.
In the documentary competition, the Golden Pram went to the First on the Moon by Alexey Fedorchenko.
In the Croatian competition the winners was The Last Communion,
directed by Ivan-Goran Vitez.
The VIPnet audience award went to director Hrvoje Hribar's What is a Man Without a Moustache?
The Festival of the First honored three pieces: Ana Ogrizovic's Silly Castel, Ivica Juretic work of art Symbols and Emil Matešic and the drama Sorted.
The winner of the Red Bull flesh film is Danilo Ducak for the piece Pram.
The jury of the third International Zagreb Film Festival included:
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Li Yang, born in Xiang, China, in 1959. Coming from a family of actors, he spent his entire childhood in theatre. He is a former student of German literature, drama theory, and direction in Beijing and Cologne.
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Denis Vaslin, producer from the Netherlands, of Volya Films. He produced last year's winner of the special jury award for feature length documentary, Poetins Mama, directed by Ineke Smits of the Netherlands.
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Slavko Štimac, actor, was born in 1960 in Konjsko Brdo near Gospic. He graduated from the Belgrade Drama School in Serbia. His first appearance on film was at the age of eleven (Vuk samotnjak / Lone Wolf), and very soon he became one of the biggest theatre and film stars of former Yugoslavia, living in Belgrade and NewYork.
