FESTIVALS: Animafest Celebrates 50 Years and Announces Competition
ZAGREB: The World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb 2022 will take place in Croatia from 6 to 11 June 2022. Animafest is widely considered to be the second…
New Film Festival Exploring Sexuality Launches In Croatia
ZAGREB: The first edition of the Cherry Pop Film Festival, a new festival dedicated to exploring topics of sexuality in all its forms and manifestations, will take place 2-4 June…
FNE at Cannes 2022: Croatian Cinema in Cannes
Two fiction features coproduced by 4Film will have their world premiere in the section Un Certain Regard at the 75th Cannes Film Festival. These are Butterfly Vision by Ukrainian director…
Croatian Postal Bank HBP and HAVC Sign Cooperation Agreement On Financing for AV Production
ZAGREB: The Croatian Postal Bank HBP and the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) have signed an agreement that will provide the Croatian AV sector with access to significantly more financing for…
FNE Podcast: Diana Nenadić - Artistic Director of Croatian Film Days
FNE's Georgian correspondent and film critic Alexander Gabelia spoke to Diana Nenadić, artistic director of Croatian Film Days, about the 31st edition of the Croatian Film Days / Dani hrvatskog…
CBS Films Second Season of FBI International in Pula
PULA: The second season of the CBS series FBI International is currently being filmed in Pula, with Embassy films servicing.
Masterclasses with Frances McDormand and Joel Coen at 2nd Ponta Lopud FF in Croatia
ZAGREB: American actor/producer Frances McDormand and American director/producer/screenwriter Joel Coen will hold masterclasses at the 2nd edition of the Ponta Lopud Film Festival, which will take place on the Lopud…
Croatia Shows Significant Signs of Recovery after Troublesome Year 2020
ZAGREB: The amount spent by international productions filming in Croatia was 25.8 m EUR / 195.8 m HRK in 2021, with 16 international projects spending a total of 416 days…
The 3rd Drive in Culture Brings Drive-in Cinemas to Four Croatian Towns
ZAGREB: The 3rd edition of Drive in Culture will screen domestic and European films in the Croatian towns of Sisak, Pula, Osijek and Zagreb from 6 to 28 May 2022.…
PRODUCTION: Pavo Marinković Enters Postproduction with Vampires of Miljacka
ZAGREB: Pavo Marinković has wrapped filming on his new feature film Vampires of Miljacka / Bosanski lonac, produced by Croatia’s Telefilm in coproduction with Austria’s Nanook Film, and in collaboration…
FESTIVALS: Croatian Film Days 2022 Announces Programme
ZAGREB: The 31st edition of the Croatian Film Days / Dani hrvatskog filma will screen 73 films, which have been selected from among 179 applicants. The most comprehensive overview of…
Netflix Interested in Documentary Series Featuring Croatia's National Football Team Captain
ZAGREB: Netflix has expressed its interest in the documentary series Captains, which will soon be released on the newly-launched FIFA+ digital platform. The series features Croatia's national football team captain…
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s Murina to Be Released in France
ZAGREB: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s debut feature Murina will be released in France by KBMO on 20 April 2022. This coproduction between Croatia, USA, Brazil and Slovenia is currently in cinemas…
PRODUCTION: The Witcher S3 Shoots Briefly in Croatia
ZAGREB: The third season of Netflix's series The Witcher spent one shooting day in Croatia during the last weekend, after an initial shooting in the Italian province of Bolzano and…
Croatian/Ukrainian TV Series The Silence Acquired by HBO MAX
ZAGREB: The TV series The Silence / Šutnja directed by Dalibor Matanić has been sold by Beta Film to HBO Europe for Central and Eastern Europe, as well as to…
FESTIVALS: ZagrebDox 2022 Announces Winners
ZAGREB: Swedish Sabaya directed by Hogir Hirori won the Big Stamp in the International Competition of the 18th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival ZagrebDOX (3-10 April 2022). The…
Kino Magistrala Network of Cinemas Launched in Croatia
ZAGREB: The new network of Croatian cinemas Kino Magistrala brings together the Kino Mediteran chain of open-air cinemas, Art-kino Croatia in Rijeka, Kinoteka Zlatna vrata in Split and Kinematografi Dubrovnik,…
Croatian Audiovisual Centre Proposes to Increase Incentives to 30%
ZAGREB: The Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) is proposing an increase in incentives for international productions shooting in Croatia from 25 to 30%, and three percent from the total amount to…
New Season of Bedekr Show Wraps Shooting in Croatia
DUBROVNIK: The tourist show Bedekr produced by the Czech Television wrapped shooting a new season in Croatia in Zagreb, Plitvice Lakes, and Dubrovnik.
PRODUCTION: Croatian Director Igor Mirković Wraps Filming on Sweet Simona
ZAGREB: Croatian writer/director Igor Mirković has entered postproduction with his new feature drama Sweet Simona / Slatka Simona, produced by Ivan Maloča and his company Interfilm.
