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  • 25 FPS Festival

    Location: Zagreb
    Festival dates: 27th – 30th September, 2023 | 19th 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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  • Split Film Festival – International Festival of New Film

    Location: Split
    Festival dates: 12. – 21. October, 2023 | 28th Edition

    The Split Film Festival – International Festival of New Film focuses on new, creative, experimental, radical, and subversive films, videos and new media works. It screens all forms and genres, with special focus on works diverging from the mainstream film and video production model, regardless of whether it concerns traditional filmmaking techniques or the use of the most recent digital technology. The competition programme is divided into two parts: feature films and shorts. The festival’s side programme presents web projects, interactive works, performances, special programmes and retrospectives of local and international filmmakers.

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  • Zagreb Film Festival

    Location: Zagreb
    Festival dates: 5 – 12 November, 2023 | 21st 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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  • Human Rights Film Festival

    Location: Zagreb, Rijeka
    Festival dates: December, 2023 | 21st Edition

    The Human Rights Film Festival was initiated in 2002 with the goal of increasing visibility of various topics on human rights issues in film. Taking place in Zagreb and Rijeka every December, the festival showcases a programme of feature and documentary films that promote openness, multiculturalism, tolerance and freedom of speech. It is organized by the Multimedia Institute and the Culture Development Association (CDA). 

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