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    • NTC Award Ceremony
      New Talent Competition gives young filmmakers from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe the opportunity to present their outstanding debut or second film to the public. Join us on Sunday 1 December at 19h
    • Music at ENFF
      The Eastern Neighbours Film Festival welcomes special musical guests each year to enrich our program. For this 16th edition, we’re thrilled to present two talented young musicians: guitarist Antonio Peršak (CR) and violinist İdil Yunkuş (TR). Together, they will perform a traditional Balkan dance and folk song, highlighting the beauty of this music through the… Read more: Music at ENFF
    • Masterclass with Janez Burger
      This masterclass presents a unique opportunity to explore Burger's distinct storytelling style, genre use, and exploration of contemporary social issues. Join us on Saturday 30 November at 17h - Room 5
    • Panel Discussion: Exploration of individual and collective memory in cinema
      Panel Discussion: Exploration of individual and collective memory in cinema on Friday 29 November at 18h

In Focus – Croatia

Croatian cinema is passing through an intensive, exciting period of change and generational transition. The old guard of accomplished directors continues bravely depicting predominantly politically relevant topics. In contrast, a new generation of mainly female directors deals with inner drama within family or gender specificities, bringing new voices and fresh cinematic approaches.

This new generation of Croatian directors has already left their mark on the European film scene. Awards, like the Palm d’Or in Cannes, prizes from Berlinale, Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Sarajevo, EFA, Pula and Motovun FF are all underlining the quality of the upcoming future masters.

Especially female authors a.o. Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic, Sonja Tarokic, Tiha Gudac, Vedrana Pribacic, Lana Baric, Dubravka Turic, just to name a few upcoming stars, as well as several enormously potent and successful producers such as Ankica Juric Tilic and Zdenka Gold, marked the European film scene. One of the latest successes is the thriller The Uncle created by a male duo of debut directors David Kapac and Andrija Mardesic. It lucidly explores, in Croatia, a rarely taken-up genre of dark psycho-thriller with a marvelous set of actors (Goran Bogdan, Ivana Roscic) led by veteran Miki Manojlovic.

Croatian local topics in skillfully made documentaries are successfully crossing borders, getting admiration and awards abroad, screened at IDFA, Hot Docs Toronto, Sheffield, Sarajevo etc. The latest accomplishment is the nomination of the film Bigger Than Trauma by the female duo Pribacic/Puhlovski for the prestigious Spanish Goya Awards 2022. One of the latest successes is also a short surreal poetic horror by Ante Zlatko Stolica.

We are bringing in this Focus program thirteen fiction features, documentaries and shorts. Many of which are debut works of talents whose names will soon be writing the history of world cinema.

Only at the Eastern Neighbours Film Festival in Filmhuis Den Haag between 23 – 27 November.

The program is supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC).