Motovun Film Festival
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| Motovun Film Festival | |
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| Location | Motovun, Croatia |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Language | International |
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Motovun Film Festival is an annual film festival established in 1999 and held in Motovun, Croatia. It usually takes place over 5–6 days in late July or early August. Motovun Film Festival is also the name of the company organizing the festival.
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[edit] Overview
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.
In years since the festival first started it became widely popular among Croatian youth, especially students. Every year during the festival a camp for visitors is organized on the foothills of Motovun, where anybody can put up their tent almost for free (the daily fee of 5 kn (roughly 1 USD) is paid to the local tourist office). The visitors' camp has become one of its hallmarks. In January 2007 The Guardian described the festival as "a cross between Glastonbury and Sundance" in its travel section. [1]
The festival also gained in status. From what was once a backpacker's film festival, it is today widely recognized as being the most important film festival held on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, along with the Sarajevo Film Festival. [2]
[edit] Awards
The main award at the festival is called Propeler Motovuna (The Propeller of Motovun, inspired by the prominently located wind turbines near Motovun).
Other awards at the festival are the Motovun Online award for best short film, the odAdoA (From 'A' to 'A') award for best film in the regional competition (the name of the award is short for from Austria to Albania, roughly describing the region covered), and the film critics' FIPRESCI Award.
[edit] Award winners
[edit] Propeller of Motovun
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 Stephen Daldry |
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Paweł Pawlikowski |
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Paul Greengrass |
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 Paul Thomas Anderson |
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Ken Loach |
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 Cristi Puiu |
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 Sarah Watt |
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 Dror Shaul |
[edit] FIPRESCI Award
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 Danis Tanović |
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 Andreas Dresen |
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 Renato Falcão |
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 Lars von Trier & Jørgen Leth |
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Simon Staho |
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 Erwin Wagenhofer |
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 David Mackenzie |
[edit] Notable guests
People who visited the festival include:
