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FESTIVALS Croatia

Zagreb packs biggest programme ever

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Croatia's largest international film event, the Zagreb Film Festival, will have its biggest programme ever, with over 160 screenings in nine sections for its seventh edition, to be held October 18-25.

The feature film competition consists of first or second films, and includes Uberto Pasolini's Machan [+see also:
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, Jean-Stephane Sauvaire's Johnny Mad Dog [+see also:
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, Marc Webb's (500) Days of Summer, Enrique Rivero's Parque Via, Vladimir Perisic's Ordinary People [+see also:
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, Urszula Antoniak's Nothing Personal [+see also:
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, Zvonimir Juric and Goran Devic's The Blacks [+see also:
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, Xavier Dolan-Tadros's I Killed My Mother, Samel Maoz's Lebanon [+see also:
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and Radu Jude's The Happiest Girl in the World [+see also:
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Serbian producer Jelena Mitrovic, Turkish director Huseyin Karabey and UK director Dominic Murphy will sit on the jury. Murphy's latest film White Lightnin' [+see also:
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will be screened as a part of the new tribute programme Brave Producers, which is focused on Mike Downey and Sam Taylor from F&ME.

Documentary competition includes Michael Noer's The Wild Hearts, Peter Kerekes's Cooking History, Pawel Ferdek's Glass Trap, Christian Poveda's Crazy Life, Katri Rannastu's Summer of a Newspaper Kid and Lindsay Goodall's Irene. The jury comprises Sarajevo Film Festival's programmer Rada Sesic, Chinese director Chao Gan and Israeli director Yaniv Berman.

The Checkers programme will feature a competition of Croatian short student films.

Side programmes include My First Film, this time dedicated to Spanish directors; City Omnibuses with New York, I Love You [+see also:
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, Six in Paris, Tokyo! [+see also:
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, New York Stories, Montreal Sextet and Zagreb Stories; and Film As Propaganda, which will show films such as Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will and Jang In-hak's The Schoolgirl's Diary.

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