Motovun Film Festival
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Motovun Film Festival is a film festival taking place in Motovun for a period of 5 days in late July or early August since 1999. Motovun Film Festival is also a name of company behind the Festival.
Motovun Film Festival is entirely dedicated to films made in small cinematographies and independent productions (on 10 August 1999, the day of opening of first Motovun Film Festival, there was not even one non-Hollywood film being shown in Croatian cinemas). In everything, except for the ambition and the quality, Motovun wants to be a small festival showing small films, small in the warmest sense of the word. Festival program consists of around 70 titles from all over the world, from documentaries to feature films, from short to long films, from guerilla made films to co-productions. The only criteria in their selection is that they fit in the open-minded atmosphere of the festival with their innovations.
Main award of the Festival is called "The Propeller of Motovun". Festival also gives these awards: Motovun Online (Best Short Film Award), From A to A (Best Film in Region) and FIPRESCI (International Film Critics Jury Award).
In years since Motovun Film Festival first started, the Festival became widely popular among Croatian youth, especially students. Therefore, every year during the time of the Festival, a camp is operational on the foothills of Motovun, where anybody can put up their tent almost for free (the resident fee of 5 kn is paid to local tourist organisation). The camp has became one of its trademarks and journalists dubbed Motovun Film Festival "film Woodstock".
