The feature-length documentary Fiume o Morte! directed by Igor Bezinović won as many as six Golden Arenas at the recently concluded Pula Film Festival: for direction (Igor Bezinović), production (Vanja Jambrović and Tibor Keser), casting (Sara Jakupec), art direction (Anton Spazzapan), costume design (Tajči Čekada, Manuela Paladin) and make-up (Ivana Pralija), and has also reaped amazing success in Croatian cinemas, becoming the most watched Croatian documentary ever. The documentary had its world premiere at the prestigious IFF Rotterdam, where it won the main prize and the FIPRESCI award. It is still making the rounds at international festivals, including GIFF, where it will appear as part of the international documentary competition.

In the short animated competition, the audience in Guanajuato will also be presented with Niko Radas’ Psychonauts. The short was made as part of art therapy of the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče in Zagreb. The creation process involved the patients of the hospital, who came up with the concept, created the production design, and lent voices to the characters. The film visualises the experience of mental illnesses, portraying them as characters leaving the human body and mind. Psychonauts was produced by Filip Gašparović Melis from the Croatian Association of Digital Artists. The film had its world premiere at the prestigious Annecy Film Festival.

The drama feature Wind, Talk to Me of director and screenwriter Stefan Đorđević also had its world premiere in the main competition at Rotterdam, while in Guanajuato it will appear in the International Feature competition. The film was made in co-production with Croatian company Restart (co-producer Vanja Jambrović).

The Guanajuato International Film Festival is one of the most important festivals in Central America, while its winning titles in the categories of Short Fiction, Documentary Short and Short Animated directly enter the race for Oscar nominations.