Postira Seaside Film Festival
Location: Postira, Brač
Festival dates: July 22 – 27, 2025 | 15th Edition
Postira Seaside Film Festival is devoted to short fiction films featured in an international competition programme and a Croatian non-competition programme. The festival was initiated in 2011 by a group of film enthusiasts brought together by two associations from Postira, Brač: Lanterna Magica and Unikat. Their goal is to enrich the local cultural offering.
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Brač Film Festival
Location: Supetar, Brač
Festival dates: August 6 – 9, 2025 | 11th Edition
Brač Film Festival is an international feature film festival for emerging filmmakers from Europe and the Mediterranean. Key goals of the Festival are: promotion of the first time feature film directors, presentation of short student films, development of film literacy amongst children and youth and connecting young film professionals with experienced ones. The prize for Best Film is awarded by the audience.
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Star Film Fest
Location: Sisak
Festival dates: August 21 – 23, 2025 | 12th Edition
The Star Film Fest is a film festival for young filmmakers from around the world. The festival screens short documentaries, experimental, feature, industrial and animated films, and the authors who apply for films must be adults and not older than thirty-five years. With film screenings and competition program, Star Film Fest with accompanying content - exhibitions, film workshops, concerts and discussions on current topics, enriches the culture of Sisak and creates and maintains a much-needed platform for self-realization of young filmmakers, contributes to the growth and development of culture and film audiences.
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Liburnia Film Festival
Location: Open Air Theatre, Opatija
Festival dates: August 26 - 30, 2025 | 23rd Edition
Liburnia Film Festival is the first documentary film festival in Croatia and the only festival exclusively screening recent Croatian documentaries. The festival is comprised of two competition programmes – the National programme and the Regional programme, and gives seven awards: Best Film, Audience Award, Best Director, Best Cinematographer, Best Editor, Best Sound Design and Best Regional Film. LFF is organized by Association Liburnia Film Festival from Rijeka, in cooperation with Restart from Zagreb.
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Youth Film Festival and Four River Film Festival
Location: Karlovac
Festival dates: 9 – 13 September, 2025 | 30th Edition of Youth Film Festival; 18th Edition of Four River Film Festival
The Youth Film Festival is a festival screening films produced by high-school children, i.e. young people between the ages of 14 and 20. The Four River Film Festival is its international edition, also geared towards high-school film.
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Trash Film Festival
Location: Varaždin
Festival dates: September 10 – 13, 2025 | 20th Edition
Trash Film Festival is a festival of low-budget action movies. The festival does NOT feature drama, documentary or art films, but exclusively entertaining films which can be put into one of the following categories: action, martial arts, science-fiction and horror. Exaggeration in genre attributes is desirable. On the final evening, the festival award Golden Chainsaw is given to the best movies. Trash Film Festival is much more than just a review- it is a large glam-trash event in which all present play role; guests, organizers, performers and contestants. Great care is taken to organize concerts, kitsch parties and red carpet events.
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25 FPS Festival
Location: Zagreb
Festival dates: September 23 – 27, 2025 | 21th Edition
25 FPS Festival is an international experimental film and video festival, primarily oriented towards short film. It screens films which innovatively explore the possibilities of cinematic language, narration and the medium itself, cross film types and genres and broaden the notion of film as art. It promotes expressive original concepts, progresses in terms of theme, idea and aesthetics, as well as works that perpetuate the tradition of artists', avant-garde and experimental film. Main festival sections are: Competition Programme, Jury's Choice, Expanded Cinema, Reflexes, Kino 23. International Grand Jury hands out three Grand Prix prizes in cash (ex aequo) and Special Mentions, Critics Jury Critics Award, festival organizer an award in production services to the best Croatian film, and Audience Award is selected according to audience votes.
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DOKUart – International Festival of Documentary Film
Location: Bjelovar
Festival dates: October 4 – 10, 2025 | 20th Edition
DOKUart is a festival of proffesional documentary films from Croatia, Europe and region. It always takes time in the beginning of October in Bjelovar, Croatia and lasts for seven days. Selector, Rada Šešić.
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Cherry Pop Film Festival
Location: Zagreb
Festival dates: October 9 – 11, 2025 | 4th Edition
Through the medium of audiovisual arts, the Cherry Pop Film Festival promotes open dialogue about all aspects of human sexuality. The Festival features two competitive programs, the Main and Student Program, both showcasing short films from around the world, while the Cherry Pick program is a selection of films dealing with a particular theme relating to sexuality. The Festival also features an educational and discussion section, the Pan-Erotikum, which is part of the Festival's aim to serve as an interdisciplinary platform for promoting open dialogue about sexuality. The Cherry Pop Film Festival is organized by the Academic Film Club and FPS Media.
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Croatian Film Days
Location: Karlovac
Festival dates: October 16 – 19 , 2025 | 34th Edition
The Croatian Film Days are a national festival founded in 1991 devoted to showcasing Croatia’s annual production of short- and medium-length feature, documentary, experimental, animated and commercial films. The festival is of a competitive nature, with awards handed out by the festival jury, members of the Croatian Film Critic’s Association, and the audience. Organizer is Croatian Film Association.
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Seize this Day with Me!
Location: Rijeka
Festival dates: October 24 – 25, 2025 | 23rd Edition
Film Festival “Seize this Day with Me!” is focused on projections of the films related to the topic of disability. In addition to screening films, program includes film making workshops, exhibitions and panel discussions.
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Zagreb Film Festival
Location: Zagreb
Festival dates: November 10 – 16, 2025 | 23rd Edition
Zagreb Film Festival is one of the central and most visited cultural events, and the largest international film festival in Croatia. It is held during November in Zagreb and presents to its audience the best of newer independent international and local film production. From its beginnings, ZFF’s mission is to discover and promote contemporary independent film and debut films of directors from all over the world. For almost two decades, it has offered a festival, and later also a distribution platform, and it has screened works which are often left out of the programs of multiplex cinemas. The festival has also played a key role in educating generations of audiences which enjoy film art. The festival program offers a diverse film and educational content for all ages and interests, and serves as a platform for the networking of professionals: each edition of the festival gathers around 200 film experts from Croatia and around the world who come to Zagreb to present their films or participate in the festival’s educational programs.
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STIFF – Student International Film Festival
Location: Rijeka
Festival dates: November 27 – 29, 2025 | 12th Edition
STIFF is Croatia’s first International Film Festival dedicated entirely to student films. Established by the SKC Rijeka (Student Cultural Center) and Filmaktiv – the purpose of the festival is strengthening the student film industry by allowing an insight into the work of other fellow student filmmakers, encouraging the development of new ideas and establishing international collaborations in the field of media production. STIFF’s main goal is to present the best of the student film production from all around the world and help them get their audiences. It strives to educate audiences about the quality of work of emerging filmmakers.
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ZagrebDox
Location: Zagreb
Festival dates: April 19th – 26th 2026 | 22nd Edition
ZagrebDox is an international documentary film festival launched in 2005. Festival is intended to provide audiences and experts insight into the recent documentary films, stimulate national documentary production and boost international and regional cooperation in co-productions. The festival's competition program has international and regional categories. Besides competition program, ZagrebDox has a number of non-competition programs – retrospectives and films focused on specific subjects, genres, techniques and esthetics.
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