The Croatian Community Council of South Australia is proud to announce the inaugural Adelaide Croatian Film Festival 2022, screening at the Regal Theatre, Kensington Park, from the opening night of Friday 7 to Sunday 9 October 2022.
Although only a small country with a population of just over 4 million, Croatia has been producing feature films since the early 1900s. Currently, Croatia produces between 5 to 10 feature films per year and six of these will be showcased during our 3-day Festival.
Encompassing genres from feature-length documentaries to drama and comedy, the inaugural Adelaide Croatian Film Festival offers attendees a broad suite of films that are entertaining, provocative, and insightful.
Through the powerful medium of cinema, audiences can connect with Croatian culture in a stimulating and contemporary way. Opening Night (Friday 7/10/22 @ 8 pm) features the 2021 Winner of the Camera d’Or at Cannes MURINA (The Moray Eel), is a coming-of-age story set on Croatia’s stunning Adriatic Coast.
This will be Adelaide’s only opportunity to see this lauded film, directed by one of the country’s hottest emerging female filmmakers – Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović and Executive-Produced by Martin Scorsese. Saturday’s Festival starts with A BLUE FLOWER (Plavi Cvijet) at 2 pm.
This psychological drama from veteran Croatian director Zrinko Ogrešić is an intense examination of an ordinary woman’s mid-life crisis over the course of a single day. At 5 pm on Saturday, the feature-length documentary COUNTRYMAN will take viewers on a journey of self-discovery and reconciliation with Croatian-Australian director Peter Pecotić and Warumungu artist and co-Producer Joseph Williams.
Highly personal and deeply moving, this film has been an audience favourite at the Sydney Croatian Film Festival 2022. SAVAGES (Divljaci) (8 pm) is Saturday night’s closing film. Directed by Dario Lonjak , this crazy Croatian “buddy” movie follows three losers trying to get to the 2018 World Cup soccer finals in Russia who get lost along the way.
A classic action-comedy, this film has drawn comparisons to movies like “The Four Lions” and “The Three Amigos”. Our Sunday program starts with a nod to the past in the feature film THE GOLDEN YEARS (Zlatne Godine) at 2 pm.
With its themes of lies and betrayal, director Davor Žmegač looks back at events during the “Croatian Spring” of 1971 through the eyes of two conflicted brothers.
At 5 pm there will be an encore screening of MURINA (The Moray Eel) to accommodate those cinephiles who may have missed its Opening Night debut. On Sunday night at 8 pm, the Festival closes with the Altmanesque drama THE STAFFROOM (Izbornica).
In her first feature-length film, director Sonja Tarokić heads back to school – only to find that some things never change… With the range and depth of the films on offer, the first Adelaide Croatian Film Festival 2022 promises to be a unique event in the local cinemagoing calendar.
Croatian Film Festival will take place from Friday 7 to Sunday 9 October 2022.
For further information on film screening times go to the Regal Theatre’s website or visit the Facebook events page
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