Zagreb Film Festival initiates an internet platform for the promotion of Croatian short film – croatian.film A unique online platform for the promotion of Croatian short film – croatian.film (www.croatian.film) – was launched on Wednesday at the Urania Center – a space of creation.  Conceived as an extension of Checkers, Zagreb Film Festival’s Croatian short […]

“To try to write love is to confront the muck of language; that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive (by the limitless expansion of the ego, by emotive submersion) and impoverished (by the codes on which love diminishes and levels it),” writes French theorist Roland Barthes in A […]

Interview with filmmaker of the month – February 2020. Film director, Vice-Dean for Education and Students of the Film Studies at the Academy of Dramatic Art, Zagreb University “Unlike the feature film, short film teaches us about the economy of storytelling. It teaches us that subtraction is more important that addition. It teaches us that […]

Review: Checkers Checkers is the national short film competition program highlighting new authors who have not made a feature film yet. Introduced in the early days of Zagreb Film Festival, the program has featured premieres of Croatian shorts whose authors are today renowned directors. Therefore, Checkers is considered one of the most important platforms for […]

The Culture of Urban Living The Croatian short film form often resides in the interiors of apartments. Of course, easily controlled conditions and affordable production are important, but not the only reasons why apartments continue to be a source of inspiration. Often enough, the oases of peace within the concrete jungle are anything but – […]