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Motovun film festival |
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Motovun Film Festival is entirely dedicated to films made in small cinematographies and independent productions, films that broke out through their innovation, ideas, and the power of their stories. In everything, except for the ambition and the quality, Motovun wants to be a small festival showing small films, small in the warmest sense od the word. In the year of the first MFF in cities across Croatia cinema theatres were being closed down. That's why we renovated an old, long-closed theatre in a small medieval town of Motovun and we made the main square into an outdoor film venue. On the very day of the opening of the first MFF, on August 10, 1999, there was not even one non-Hollywood film being shown in Croatian cinemas. Not even one out of around 3000 titles that are produced outside of big studios every year. That's why we chose films that were made all over the world. In a country in which MFF was launched there was not even one international feature film event. That is why we launched the festival.
Zagreb, 8 June – Having successfully completed its first decade, Motovun Film Festival will be offering you film treats for the 11th time, from 27 to 31 July, on the beautiful Motovun Hill in the heart of Istria. Our program will again include a selection of the best films made in independent productions and by less known cinematographies. This year’s partner-country comes from Europe’s north, offering us an insight into the Finnish part of the Scandinavian cinematography. Since Juha, a film by famous Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki was the first film ever to be shown at Motovun Film Festival, it is only logical that we enter the second decade of the Festival with a program presenting the new Finnish film. The program will include five most successful long feature films made in the past five years. And, recognizing great Finnish achievements in documentary films, we will also show a retrospective of Finnish documentaries selected by director Arto Halonen that includes six most interesting ones. Arto Halonen has been continually making documentaries in the past fifteen years and at the last year’s Thessalonica Festival he received the award given to the most acclaimed documentarists of today. After the big anniversary we marked last year, we are celebrating a smaller – but no less important – one this year: the tenth anniversary of Motovun Online, our selection of short films. As anniversaries are always a good opportunity for reminding on the best achievements, this year we will be presenting a review of all winners in this selection. Since the running time of each of these films does not exceed 15 minutes, all of them will be shown in one exciting film night, taking place in Zagreb’s Europa Theater on July 2. We will use the occasion to present this year’s program of the Festival, too. Since Motovun Online is moving on, a new set of short films will be available on the Festival web page as of July 15. The 50 Years Award, given every year to the leading figures of Croatian film industry who have been on film for over half a century, will be presented to the distinguished cartoonist and world-wide known author of animated films Nedjeljko Dragić. This doyen of the Zagreb School of Animated Film and the author of the well-known Zagi – the mascot of the Zagreb University Games 1987 – spent 30 years in Zagreb Film, working as a cartoonist. In the early 1990s, he moved to Munich, Germany, where he is still living. He made his first animated film Elegy in 1965. His best known works include Days Elapse, Diogenes Perhaps, Tamer of Wild Horses, The Diary, Tup-Tup. The latter one won him an Oscar nomination in 1973. His 1974 film The Diary was included among the ten best animated films of all times. In addition to its films, the partner-country Finland will also present itself through visits of its renowned film authors and with concert attractions – including Ismo Kullervo Alanko, one of the most reputed Finnish musicians. He is known by his versatility and by combining various musical styles – from various rock forms, dance, electronic music to children’s music, evergreens and film music. He has been included in the list of the best Finnish rockers, where he holds as many as three positions among the top 20 – as a solo performer and as a member of two rock bands. For the first time, Motovun Film Festival will be taking place with a support of MEDIA 2007 – the European Union’s fund intended for supporting the development of European audiovisual industry. Animafest and Motovun Film Festival are the first Croatia festival to receive support from MEDIA in the first year of Croatia’s membership in this program. The Festival program will be announced in the early July and advance sales of tickets starts on July 6.
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