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The Doors Art
Foundation presents
CROATIAN FILM FESTIVAL NYC
18 new films from Croatia to screen
September 13-16, 2007
at the Museum of the Moving Image and
Tribeca Cinemas
The Doors Art Foundation is
pleased to present the inaugural Croatian Film Festival NYC
(CFF), a multimedia event which will take place September
13th through September 16th, 2007
at the Museum of the Moving Image, the Tribeca Cinemas
and the Knitting Factory. The festival will present 18
Croatian films introduced by Croatian critic, author and CFF curator
Jurica Pavicic, Video exhibit Up Close and Personal
curated and introduced by Branko Franceschi, director of
the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia,
as well as a special appearance by Croatian rock band Svadbas
at the Knitting Factory.
Croatia, at the crossroads
of Mediterranean and Central Europe, a popular travel destination
with a burgeoning art and film culture that calls to mind Berlin in
the 1980s. With a growing immigrant community in New York, Croatia
is front and center of the international film scene, with dozens of
new artists and directors presenting their work at film festivals
and independent venues around the world. This is the fourth year
that the Doors Art Foundation has screened contemporary Croatian
films in New York, and the 2007 Croatian Film Festival NYC hopes to
draw more attention to Croatian filmmaking with the support of the
Croatian Ministry of Culture, Croatian cities, companies,
organizations and individuals interested in the expansion of its
cultural values.
The festival
kicks off on Thursday, September 13 with director Arsen A. Ostojic
introducing his film A Wonderful Night in Split (Ta
divna Splitska noc), three intertwined love stories set on a New
Year’s Eve within the ancient medieval walls of Split. Other
featured films include Ognjen Svilicic’s Armin, a
family drama about a father and son on their way to Zagreb for a
film audition; I Love You (Volim te) introduced
by film director Dalibor Matanic, a story about
a young man who gets infected with AIDS, Slow
Days (Ajde dan prodi) by Matija Klukovic, an
experimental drama featuring a kaleidoscope of characters
fantasizing about going abroad and leaving their homeland behind;
Melon Route (Put lubenica) by Branko Schmidt, a story
about human trafficking inspired by the true story of twelve illegal
immigrants who drowned in the river Sava on the border of Croatia
and Bosnia and Ognjen Svilicic's Sorry For Kung Fu
(Oprosti za Kung Fu) where shocking birth of an Asian baby brings
unrest and dissension into the self-contained milieu of this part of
Europe.
The film festival
concludes Sunday, September 16, with Tomislav
Radic’s What Iva Recorded on
October 21, 2003(Sto je Iva
snimila 21. listopada, 2003), when Iva uses her new camera to
record her sixteenth birthday party, she reveals her bourgeoisie
family to itself in surprising ways.
Other films
screening as part of the festival include a selection of short
feature films; Let me
Sleep (
Pusti me da spavam) by Sara
Hribar, It's
Not that I Know, That's Just the Way it Is ( Nije da znam, nego je
to tako)
by Tanja Golic, Three
Love Stories (Tri ljubavne
price)
by Snjezana Tribuson, short
documentaries; I'll
Kill Ya! (Ubil bum te!)
by Nikola Strasek, Half
Sister (Polusestra)
by Ljiljana
Sismanovic, There
Was Once
(Bil jedon)
by Hrvoje Hribar, Bad
Blue Boys
(Panj pun olova)
by Branko Schmidt, animated
films; Leviatan
(Levijatan)
by Simon Bogojevic Narath,
Silencium (Silencijum)
by Davor Medurecan and Marko
Mestrovic,
Market (Plac) by Ana Husman and
feature documentary Good Morning (Dobro jutro)
Ante Babaja's last film
about his personal and professional life.
Festival guests from
Croatia are: directors Arsen A. Ostojic and Dalibor
Matanic, CFF curators; author, film critic and journalist
Jurica Pavicic and director of the Museum of the Modern and
Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia, Branko Franceschi and rock
band Svadbas, well known for composing musing for film and
theatre.
A complete schedule of films
and events is online at www.cffnyc.com
TICKETS:
Tickets for the Tribeca Cinemas
screenings are available online at www.cffnyc.com. Tickets
for the Museum of the Moving image screenings and for the
Knitting Factory concert are available through the individual
venues at www.movingimage.us
and www.knittingfactory.com.
VENUES:
Museum
of the Moving Image is located on 35 Avenue at 36
Street, Astoria, NY 111 06. For full schedule visit www.movingimage.us
or call 718.784.0077. Films are included with Museum admission:
$10 adults/$7.50 senior citizens and college students/$5 children
5-18. Free for Museum members.
Tribeca Cinemas
are located at 54 Varick Street at Laight Street, one block
below Canal Street in Manhattan. For information visit www.tribecacinemas.com or
call 212.941.2001.
Knitting
Factory is located at 74
Leonard St, New York, NY 10013
For information visit www.knittingfactory.com
or call 212.219.3132.
Supported
by: The Croatian Ministry of Culture, City Of Zagreb, City
of Rijeka and City of Split
General Sponsor:
Jana Water, natural artesian water
Sponsors: De Bona
Consulting, specialists in luxury residential and large
scale investment properties throughout Croatia and Face
Croatia, A Program of the Heathcote Art Foundation.
Friends:
Sts. Cyril
and Methodius and St. Raphael's Croatian Catholic Church and Press
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