Zagreb Film Festival announces an open call for application for the script development workshop My First Script. The workshop is intended for filmmakers who are preparing a script for their first feature-length film. From the received applications the total of 6 participants will be chosen to participate in the workshop: two from Croatia, four from abroad. The 5-day workshop will be held during the festival (from 21 to 25 October 2013).

The purpose of this workshop is to help young screenwriters in making a script for their first feature-length fiction film,...

The eleventh edition of Zagreb Film Festival will be taking place in Zagreb from 20-27 October this year. This is a reminder that the deadline for submission of films for the Festival's competition program is 15 July.

Authors can submit their debutant (first and second) films by filling out the online application form, for the categories of long and short feature films and documentary films.  To be eligible, films must be made in 2012 or 2013. If selected, their screenings must be Croatian premieres. Submission of films is free.

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The Sundance Film Festival, the biggest and the most important American independent film festival, started yesterday in Park City, Utah. This year the film  Circles directed by Srđan Golubović, with Leon Lučev in one of the leading roles, will be screened in the “World Cinema Dramatic Competition” programme.

The film, co-produced by the Croatian production company Propeler Film will be screened on January 18, 19, 20, 23 and 25 at several venues. After the Sundance (January 17- 27) the film will be screened in the Forum section at the prestigious Berlin International...

The best film of the feature-length program by audience vote is Children of Kinshasa, the debutant film of Belgian director Marc-Henri Wajnberg. It is a combination of documentarism and fiction - inspired by an incredible story from Congo's capital Kinshasa. Wajnberg's fiction film manages to recreate the spirit and structure of the city.

The story is based on the widespread African practice - harassment of children accused for witchcraft. Specifically, there are some 30,000 children in Kinshasa who have been accused of demonic possession and then thrown out of their...

The screenings of Dutch film Taking Chances and the film Apparitions made at Bib for Kids Workshop marked the finale of Bib for Kids, children's favorite program of Zagreb Film Festival.

More than three thousand children saw the films of this year's Bib for Kids program in two venues - Cinema Europa and Museum of Contemporary Art.

Bib for Kids program included four feature-length films and four short films, including Antonio Nuić's As Seen on TV - the film that had its premiere before Bib for Kids audience.

More than 500 children saw the films shown at the Museum of...

The tenth edition of Zagreb Film Festival ended tonight with the award-presentation ceremony in Cinema Europa before a packed audience. During the eight days of this jubilee edition of the festival, cinemagoers had a chance to see one hundred films in ten programs at six venues in Zagreb. All in all, there were more than two hundred screenings.

As usually, the closing and award-presentation ceremony took place in an informal atmosphere and Festival Director Boris T. Matić and Executive Director Hrvoje Laurenta said a few words for the end. "The tenth edition of the...