4. AVVANTURA FESTIVAL FILMFORUMZADAR From August 24th until the 31st Zadar will become the meeting ground for film enthusiasts and professionals who will have the opportunity to enjoy in interesting film meetings and film titles: new art-house films, first features, documentaries, short films, mainstream titles. The films in the main programme, which consists of films made in the European coproduction, will be rated by a renowned international film jury whose members are: Arta Dobroshi, Krzysztof Zanussi, Shigeru Umebayashi, Dean Šoša and Christian Jeune. Actress Arta DOBROSHI became famous with the film “Le Silence de Lorna” by the Dardenne brothers which won the Palme d’Or in 2008 at the Cannes Film Festival for the best screenplay. Krzysztof ZANUSSI is a famous Polish and European film director, and when people are talking about worldwide influences of the Polish cinematography, they will always mention the name of Wajda, Kieslowski and Zanussi. Krzysztof Kieslowski was inspired with Zanussi’s work, and Zanussi had a cameo role in Kieslowski’s film. Zanussi is an artist who was picked by the “Polish Pope” John Paul II as a consultant for AV culture and this is his first visit to Croatia, to the Meadow of John Paul II in Zadar (Forum), to the cinema under the clear bright sky. Shigeru UMEBAYASHI is a Japanese film composer who created music for numerous Japanese and Chinese film but on the West he is most famous for his work with the director Wong Karwai and music for the films: “In the Mood for Love”, “2046”, “The Grandmaster”. Furthermore “House of Flying Daggers” by Yimou Zhang, together with the Polish composer Korzeniowski he made music for Tom Ford’s “Single Man” (remark: the film’s cinematographer, Eduard Grau, was a guest on the 1st Avvantura Festival Filmforumzadar). He was also hired by Winterbottom for the film “Trishna” and by the German director Veit Helmer (winner of the Audience Award on the last years Avvantura Festival Filmforumzadar for his film “Baikonur”) for his film “Absurdistan”. Dean ŠOŠA is a film critic, editor and chief editor of the praised “cultural” Third programme of the Croatian Television. Christian JEUNE is the director of the Film section and chief selector for the world’s film festival, the Cannes Film Festival. He is in charge of preselecting and selecting films and he is the one that in the end has to say “NO” to 90% of films which have had the chance to enter Cannes’ official programme. This year, he has watched around 1800 films and rejected 1700 of them, he coordinated 950 film screenings and Variety magazine says that he is the “local hero”. This jury, consisting of five members, will chose among the best films like “Broken circle breakdown” a festival hit film which was awarded by the audience on the Berlin Film Festival and European cinemas are calling it the best film. It has also won an award for best screenplay and best actress on the Tribeca Film Festival. The film will be shown for the first time in Croatia and the Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen brings an unusual mixture of tears and bluegrass music. The Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur, famous outside his homeland and successful in Hollywood, in his new hit “The Deep” brings a story based on a real life event, about a man who spent hours swimming in a frozen sea. Actress Judita Franković is amongst the jury members which will evaluate film in the 1st and 2nd Film section, German director of South African roots Pia Marais whose film “Layla Fourie” was in the main programme at this year’s Berlinale is a jury member in the Eye on Films section. Eye on Film is a film platform, a business model for promoting, circulation and distribution of first feature films and it has numerous partners: around 40 distributers, 50 festivals (Avvantura Festival is the only one in Croatia) and this programme for opening doors into the film world for unknown authors has developed WIDE, one of the leading European sales agents with the support of the MEDIA Mundus programme. Short films will also be competing in Zadar, so in cooperation with European Film Academy we are showing the best European short films of the year and in cooperation with the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Austrian Film Academy, the Festival brings the best Austrian short films. Thanks to a fertile cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Fund in Zagreb, from Austria we are having real film treats in the tribute to one of the leading European and world director, Michael Haneke. On our great pleasure, Austria is Festival’s “Partner country” this year. Within this cooperation, we are having a premiere showing of the film “Soldate Jeanette” by Daniel Hoesel, the winner of the Rotterdam Film Festival (Tiger Award) and we are bringing the film’s crew. In the programme “Classics at the Adria” we are showing a retrospective of the renowned French director and aesthetician, Robert Bresson (1991-1999). In its industry section, the Festival is organizing several different workshops and master classes so in cooperation with the Croatian Film Association we are having one of the most esteemed authors from the Zagreb school for animated films, Nedeljko Dragić, director of the awarded “Tup-tup”. During the 60-s, Dragić was in the shortlist for an Oscar and he is the author of the famous character Zagi. Anyone interested can apply for this workshop. As a Festival which focuses on coproduction, outside of competition, we are also screening interesting titles such as “Hives” by Ivan Kelava, made in coproduction of five European film academies. Documentary Film “Google and the World Brain” puts a difficult question to Google which is preparing a huge but controversial world book, available to all. “A Stranger” (“Obrana i zaštita”) by Bobo Jelčić is amongst the titles in the section Made in Croatia. We are very pleased that in the new programme Zadar Film Corner there will be many excitements and surprises, and we will be showing films that were made in the last 12 months: short film, German documentary film, the director Hermann Vaske has filmed a part of his documentary “Balkan Spirit” during his stay at the Festival. Last year, the Festival’s crew brought to the Zadar set the production of one of the most popular Czech TV series “Vypravej” which has 2 million viewers in its homeland. Since the very beginning we are promoting Zadar as a film location and destination, and during the times when even small towns are digitalizing theatres, there is no place in Zadar where you could watch the films like the ones that will be screened during the AVVANTURA FESTIVAL FILMFORUMZADAR. In the Zadar Film Corner we are hiding a huge surprise, especially for the audience in Zadar. A week before the projectors are turned on and screens are set up; on Zadar’s locations AVVANTURA is brining Documentary Campus Masterschool with around 50 participants around the world which are developing the selected projects with the support of big film house like: BBC, DISCOVERY CHANNEL, HISTORY CHANNEL, ORF, FRANCE TV, SPIGEL TV, ZDF, SKY VISION and many others. The Campus will be closed pitching and an industry event. Croatia Goes Cross-Media is a home three day programme in organization of the Aning d.o.o. film production in which the participants have the opportunity to gather knowledge and information from world’s leading experts in the growing area of cross-media to which the Zadar festival is giving a lot of attention since the very beginning. There will also be a lot of fun in Zadar, we are merging film and kitchen in a theme night called “In the mood for love”, we are also preparing concerts, exhibitions, parties... The complete festival programme will be announced in the beginning of August and all information will be available on the web, Twitter and our Facebook page. Again this year, as an official partner, the Festival is supported by Fund of the European Council for cinematography support, Eurimages, and the Festival could not be realized without the support of the City of Zadar, general sponsor Croatian Telecom, Croatian Audio-Visual Centre and other partnering institutions. 4. AVVANTURA FESTIVAL FILMFORUMZADAR Od 24.08 do 31.08 u Zadru će se okupiti ljubitelji i profesionalci filma i cijeli tjedan uživati u zanimljivim filmskim druženjima i naslovima: od novih arthouse filmova, prvijenaca, dokumentaraca, kratkih filmova, mainstream naslova. Filmove glavnoga prorama, u koji ulaze europske koprodukcije, ocjenjuje renomirani međunarodni stručni žiri u sastavu: Arta Dobroshi, Krzysztof Zanussi, Shigeru Umebayashi, Dean Šoša i Christian Jeune. Glumica Arta Dobroshi proslavila se filmom „Lorna s Silence“ braće Dardenne u Cannesu, kada su 2008. Jean-Pierre i Luc dobili Zlatnu palmu za scenarij toga filma. Krzysztof Zanussi veliki je poljski i europski redatelj, a kada se govori o svjetskim dometima poljske kinematografije najčešće spominjana imena su Wajda, Kieslowski i Zanussi. Krzysztof Kieslowski bio je inspiriran radovima Krzysztofa Zanussija, a Zannussi ima i cameo ulogu kod Kieslowskog. Umjetnik kojega je i „papa Poljak“ Ivan Pavao II. izabrao kao savjetnika za AV kulturu prvi put dolazi u Hrvatsku, na Poljanu Ivana Pavla II u Zadru (Forum), u kino pod vedrim nebom. Shigeru Umebayashi japanski je skladatelj filmske glazbe koji je skladao za brojne japanske i kineske naslove, no na Zapadu je najpoznatiji po suradnji s hongoškim redateljem Wong Kar-waiem i glazbi iz filmova „In the mood for love“, „2046“, “The Grandmaster”. Tu su i „Kuća letećih bodeža“ Yimoua Zhanga, zajedno s poljskim kompozitorom Korzeniowskim uglazbio je „Single man“ Toma Forda…(op.a. snimatelj filma „Single man“ Eduard Grau bio je gost 1. zadarskog filmskog festivala), angažirao ga je i Winterbottom za film „Trishna“, njemački redatelj Veit Helmer (dobitnik nagrade publike na prošlogodišnjem zadarskom festivalu za film „Baikonur“) za „Absurdistan“. Dean Šoša filmski je kritičar, urednik i glavni urednik hvaljenog HTV-og, „kulturnog“, trećeg programa. Christian Jeune direktor je Filmskog odjela i glavni selektor vodećeg svjetskog filmskog festivala, Cannes film festivala. Zadužen je za preselekciju i selekciju filmova i on je taj koji na kraju mora reći „ne“ za 90% filmova koji su imali priliku ući u službeni program Cannesa. Ove je godine pogledao oko 1800 naslova, 1700 ih je odbio, kordinirao je 950 projekcija, časopis Variety o njemu piše pod naslovom „lokalni heroj“. Ovaj peteročlani žiri birati će najbolje među naslovima kao što su: „Broken circle breakdown“ festivalski hit naslov koji je nagradila i publika berlinskoga festivala, na Berlinalu ga i europska kina proglašavaju najboljim filmom, na Tribeca festivalu dobija nagradu za najbolji scenario i glumicu. Prvi se puta prikazuje u Hrvatskoj, a belgijski redatelj Felix Van Groeningen donosi neobičnu mješavinu suza i bluegrass glazbe. Islandski redatelj Baltasar Kormakur, poznat i izvan domovine, uspješan i u Hollywoodu, u novom hitu „The Deep“ donosi priču baziranu na stvarnom događaju, o čovjeku koji satima pliva kroz ledeno more. Glumica Judita Franković među članovima je žirija koji će ocijenjivati filmove u sekciji 1st & 2nd Film, njemačka redateljica južnoafričkoga podrijetla Pia Marais čiji je film „Layla Fourie“ bio u glavnom programu ovogodišnjeg Berlinala članica je žirija u sekciji Eye on Films. Eye on Films je filmska platforma, poslovni model za promociju, cirkulaciju i distribuciju prvijenaca u koju su uključeni brojni partneri: 40-ak distributera, 50-ak festivala (Avvvantura festival kao jedini u Hrvatskoj), a ovaj program otvaranja vrata u svijet neafirmiranim filmašima razvio je WIDE, jedna od vodećih europskih sales agenata uz potporu MEDIA Mundus programa. U Zadru se natječu i kratki filmovi, pa u suradnji s Europskom filmskom akademijom prikazujemo najbolje europske kratke filmove godine, a u suradnji s Austrijskim ministarstvom vanjskih poslova i Austrijskom filmskom akademijom festival donosi najbolje austrijske kratke filmove. Zahvaljujući plodnoj suradnji s Austrijskim kulturnim forumom u Zagrebu, iz Austrije nam stižu prave filmske poslastice u tributu jednom od vodećih europskih i svjetskih redatelja Michaela Hanekea. Austrija je na naše veliko zadovoljstvo i “Zemlja partner” ovogodišnjeg festivala. U sklopu te suradnju, između ostalog, premijerno prikazujemo pobjednika filmsokg festivala Rotterdam (Tiger Award) film “Soldate Jeannette” autora Daniela Hoesela i dovodimo ekipu filma. U programu „Klasici na Jadranu“ slijedi retrospektiva renomiranog francuskog redatelja i estetičara Roberta Bressona (1991-1999). Festival u svom industrijskom dijelu organizira razne radionice i masterclassove, pa u suradnji s HFS-om ugošćujemo jednog od najistaknutijih autora Zagrebačke škole crtanog filma Nedeljka Dragića, redatelja nagrađivanog „Tup-tupa“ koji je 60-ih bio u užem izboru za Oscara, tvorca slavnog Zagija…Na radionicu ovog sjajnog crtača mogu se prijavljivati svi zainteresirani. Kao festival okrenut koprodukciji , izvan konkurencije, donosimo također zanimljive naslove kao što su „Košnice“, film redatelja Ivana Kelave nastao u koprodukciji pet europskih filmskih akademija, a pred globalni div Google koji priprema ogromnu, ali i kontroverznu svjetsku knjižnicu dostupnu svima, veliki upitnik postavlja dokumentarac „Google and the world brain“. Hrvatskim naslovima koji se nalaze u sekciji Made in Croatia, pridružuje se „Obrana i zaštita“ Bobe Jelčića, drago nam je da će u novom progranu Zadar Film Corner biti zanimljivosti i iznenađenja, a u njemu se prikazuju radovi nastali u proteklih 12 mjeseci u Zadru: kratki film, njemački dokumentarni film, redatelj Hermann Vaske dio je svog dokumentarca “Balkan Spirit” o kreativcima snimio za vrijeme boravka na festivalu, prošloga je ljeta ekipa festivala dovela na zadarski set proizvodnju jedne epizode najpopularnije serije Češke državne TV, “Vypravej”, koja ima 2 milijuna gledtelja u domovini. Od samoga početka ukazujemo na Zadar kao filmsku lokaciju i destinaciju, a u vrijeme kada i mali gradovi digitaliziraju kina, u Zadru nema mjesta na kojem se prikazuju filmovi poput ovih koje donosi AVVANTURA FESTIVAL FILMFORUMZADAR. U zadarskom kutku skrivamo i veliko iznenađenje, ponajprije za zadarsku publiku. Tjedan prije nego se uključe projektori i postave filmska platna na zadrske lokacije AVVANTURA dovodi Documentary Campus Masterschool s 50-ak sudionika iz cijeloga svijeta koji razvijaju selektirane projekte uz podršku velikih kuća kao što su: BBC, DISCOVERY CHANNEL, HISTORY CHANNEL, ORF, FRANCE TV, SPIGEL TV, ZDF, SKY VISION i mnogi drugi. Campus se zatvara pitchingom i industrijskim eventom. Croatia Goes Cross-Media domaći je pak trodnevni intenzivni program u organizaciji filmske produkcije Aning d.o.o. u kojem polaznici imaju priliku skupiti znanje i informacije od vodećih svjetskih stručnjaka s rastućeg područja cross-media kojima zadarski festival posvećuje pozornost od samoga početka. U Zadru će biti i zabave, spajamo film i kuhinju u tematskoj večeri „In the mood for love“, pripremamo koncerte, izložbe, zabavu...Kompletni festivalski program objaviti ćemo početkom kolovoza, a sve informacije biti će dostupne na webu, Twitteru i našem facebooku. I ove nas godine kao službeni partner podržava Fond Vijeća Europe za potporu kinematografiji Eurimages, a festivala ne bi bilo bez podrške Grada Zadra, generalnog sponzora Hrvatskog telekoma, HAVC-a i drugih partnerskih institucija.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:52:08 +0000