The Youth Film Festival and the Four River Film Festival start - first festival day with a rich program
Official festival opening ceremony with A Brief Excursion by Igor Bezinović at 8 PM at the Korana River
Karlovac, 11 September - Karlovac becomes the temporary center of high school film-making on Tuesday 12 September: The 22nd Youth Film Festival and the 10th Four River Film Festival will last until 16 September. A rich and diversified program will be provided for people of all ages at several locations from morning to late evening hours.
The festivals have their official opening at the Korana River - after the official opening ceremony hosted by actors Hrvojka Begović and Adrian Pezdirc and radio host Frano Domitrović, there will be a screening of the fiction documentary film A Brief Excursion by Igor Bezinović. The film was the winner of this year’s Pula Film Festival and is based on motives from the Antun Šoljan novel of the same name. This is a documentary and fiction film hybrid that follows Stola, a young man in his late twenties, who spends the summer in Istria partying at festivals.
However, the first festival day will start in the morning (10 AM) with film screenings from the program Best of the Children's Film Cuisine. These are the best works of previous Croatian Children’s Film Festivals, by authors whose recent film works will be screened at this year’s Festival. The workshop program for elementary school kids from Karlovac in cooperation with the Youth Photo Week is next at noon.
There will be a debate in the early afternoon, at 1 PM in the Zorin Dom Theater, titled To film violence or to react to it?; this is a part of the program that is traditionally held with the award Yellow Flag. The aforementioned award is granted to film authors from Croatia and the world who use their topics and stories to most successfully and convincingly condemn violence. All participants can follow the debate, so Karlovac will not just be the film center of youth this year, but a center for fighting against violence as well.
At 5 PM participants will hang out in front of the Zorin Dom Theater with a picnic and speed dating, while the grand opening of the Festivals with the aforementioned film A Brief Excursion will be at 8 PM. After the film screening from 11 PM entertainment is organized with the band 4head.
11.09.2017.