BRAČ – Brač Film Festival

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Brač Film Festival is an international feature film festival for debutants and young filmmakers from Europe and the Mediterranean countries.

The key goals of the Festival are the promotion of debut feature films, presentation of short feature films by students of film academies, film education of children and young people through special screenings and educational workshops, and networking of young film professionals with already prominent film workers from Croatia and the world.

Mark your calendars for August 10 to 13, when the Brač Film Festival will take place.

Brač Film Festival

Brač is a young and dynamic festival located in the Mediterranean, the historical center of the world, where the diversity of cultures, languages and people resulted in extraordinary artistic achievements. Brač remains at the center of this, striving to create bridges between different cultures and generations. BFF is a friendly festival aimed at a wider audience, whose quality encourages the creative growth of budding filmmakers.

Since its foundation in 2015, Brač has been recognized as a meeting place for filmmakers from the entire region. Experienced professionals from the industry visited the festival and supported young filmmakers, such as Oscar winner Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement), Croatian film directors Vinko Brešan, Pave Marinković, Nevi Marasović, actors Goran Bogdan, Nives Ivanković, Momčilo Otašević, Jelena Peričin, Slavko Sobin, Tihana Lazović, Stjepan Perić, Marko Petrić, Jelena Jovanova, Jovana Stojiljković and many others.

After two long years of the pandemic, this time the Brač Film Festival returns without epidemiological restrictions, with a full-capacity cinema, a handful of movie guests and an unmissable entertainment program.

For the eighth year in a row, the festival brings the most recent titles from domestic cinema to the Supetar audience, providing local authors with a platform to present their debut feature films to the Brac audience.

Festival program

The film program is divided into three categories that will be shown in two locations. At the location of the Church at 9 p.m. every evening, there are film screenings for our youngest. This year, the films are adapted for ages 6+, so in addition to the domestic production “The Summer when I Learned to Fly”, which tells the story of 12-year-old Sofia, whose summer vacation on Hvar turns into an adventure she could not have imagined, we also bring foreign titles celebrated at film festivals. These are films like “Comedy Queen” and “Nelly Rapp: Monster Agent” and the animated film “Even Mice Belong to Heaven”, before which the short animated film for children “The Egg” by Ana Despot, well known to all Supetarians, will be shown.

In the main program at the Summer Cinema at 9:30 p.m., one short film will be shown before each feature film. The short film program is intended for students of film academies from the region. This year we have the opportunity to see the titles “Guns and helmets”, “Crisis”, “Džonika” and “Sound Mixer”.

From the main program, we highlight the film “Divljaci” directed by Darij Lonjak, which will open this year’s edition of the Festival. This genre-bending action comedy tells the story of three fans of the Croatian national team who mistakenly wandered into a terrorist camp!

Featured titles in the main program

In the main program, we bring other prominent titles “Strahinja Banović” by director Stefan Arsenijević, which was screened twice at FEST due to great interest, and “Zbornica” by Sonja Tarokić, which critics declared “definitely one of the best Croatian films in recent times”. At the end of the festival, we bring the sports drama “Golden Boy” directed by Ognjen Janković, which tells the story of a twenty-year-old promising soccer player who, upon entering the professional world, finds it increasingly difficult to reconcile his private life with the demands of top sport.

This year’s program has changed in terms of content from previous editions and brings a variety of genres, from animated films, children’s, action comedy to sports drama!

The directors of all feature and short films will be present at the festival, with whom it will be possible to socialize after the screenings in the summer cinema or at the after parties in Acapulco Bar, on the first and last evening.