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During five festival days, eight diverse fiction films will present a spectrum of peculiar small heroes and heroines, and at the same time compete for three awards! A professional and a children’s jury will be deciding on the awards, and the audience will vote for their favourites and that way decide which film gets the Audience Award. After the screenings, share your impressions with our hosts Hrvojka Begović, Maja Kovač. Filip Riđički, Vedran Senjanović and Sara Stanić.
Supa Modo
Likarion WainainaThe Witch Hunters
Raško MiljkovićPickhu’s Dream
Nila Madhab PandaI Am William
Jonas ElmerMy Grandpa Is an Alien
Marina Andree Škop, Dražen ŽarkovićMy Extraordinary Summer with Tess
Steven WouterloodMy Short Words
Bekir BülbülMatti and Sammi and the Three Biggest Mistakes in the Universe
Stefan Westerwelle
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Five short films suitable for the age 7+ will take us on fun quests to reveal the wealth and beauty in others, as well as in ourselves. Find out why Lili decides to build a plane, how Pauline and Noham will save their great love, and what does it look like when a friendship grows out of a bog hole – all this in this charming selection of short films.
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Two select film classics for children will be presented by the special guests of KinoKino Festival: musician Matija Dedić and the filmmaking couple Krelja – director Petar and screenwriter Vesna. Matija is presenting his favourite childhood sci-fi film The Secret of an Old Attic, whose original score was composed by his father Arsen, and the Krelja couple will talk about Kreško Golik’s unforgettable hit-comedy, I Have Two Moms and Two Dads!
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Europa Cinema’s ongoing event will for the first time take part in KinoKino! Kinolektira screens timeless titles from the anthologies of cinema – the films you saw many years ago, the films that followed you and that you kept returning to, and perhaps even the films you never saw (and are ashamed to admit). For our youngest audience the writer and this year’s KinoKino jury member Olja Savičević Ivančević chose the iconic comedy Some Like It Hot. This is her favourite childhood film and she will explain why in the short review she wrote.
At the time I was growing up, in the 1980s, when we still had black and white TVs with only two channels on and films were late, if they were ever even released, in local cinemas, but we had one big privilege. Whatever was on TV we watched it together, from the elderly to the kids, and this was particularly true for the weekend programmes. Among other things, this made it possible for us to discuss the films later with family and friends – to us, there was not only a personal significance, but also a certain – let’s call it that – collective quality to them. We laughed and cried with the same films, we grew up with the same films and we imitated their male and female protagonists.
Back then I much more preferred the films I could laugh at, and I laughed the most at Some Like It Hot, watching it as joyfully and carefree as children perceive films and the entire world before their heads are filled with prejudices. A nice and funny story, great music, amazing Marilyn Monroe, handsome Tony Curtis and brilliantly loveable Jack Lemmon are the reasons why I still enjoy Billy Wilder’s classic, realising how much its vibrancy and playful provocativeness were ahead of its (or our today’s) time.
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Extended Stay is designed to complement the workshop From Cinema to Classroom: a workshop of teaching about short film, intended for teachers, educators, librarians and other employees in the teaching sector, but the screening is open to the public as well. We will be watching the award-winning short film Cherries, suitable for both adults and children. This exceptional title amazingly works as a prelude to the promotion of tolerance and serves as an example of a successful marriage between literature and film. The screening will be accompanied by a discussion between director Dubravka Turić and writer and this year’s KinoKino jury member Olja Savičević Ivančević, who wrote the short story the film is based on. The discussion will be hosted by actress Hrvojka Begović.
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A line-up of short films intended for preschool children, introduced to moving images on the big screen for the first time. Watching the films together and enjoying the magic of a cinema screening, the youngsters will also have a chance to make little film diplomas together, a souvenir of their first film festival experience! Dialogues from the films will be read by actors Sara Stanić and Filip Riđički.
The Amazing Little Worm
Anna GentiliniCoco’s Day
Tatiana MoshkovaJazzoo
Adam Marko-NordDrops
Sarah Joy Jungen, Karsten HoopLemon & Elderflower
Ilenia CotardoIsland
Max Mörti, Robert LöbelA Bit Lost
Hélène DucrocqColorbirds
Oana LacroixThe Green Bird
Maximilien Bougeois, Quentin Dubois, Marine Goalard, Irina Nguyen-Duc, Pierre PerveyrieI Want to Live in the Zoo
Evgenija Golubeva
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Part of the program will, for the first time, visit other cities in Croatia, for starters Rijeka (Art-kino Croatia) and Dubrovnik (Cinema Sloboda).
The Witch Hunters
Raško MiljkovićI Am William
Jonas ElmerDrops
Sarah Joy Jungen, Karsten HoopLemon & Elderflower
Ilenia CotardoColorbirds
Oana LacroixThe Amazing Little Worm
Anna GentiliniIsland
Max Mörti, Robert LöbelJazzoo
Adam Marko-NordThe Green Bird
Maximilien Bougeois, Quentin Dubois, Marine Goalard, Irina Nguyen-Duc, Pierre Perveyrie
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Apart from films, KinoKino Festival will host workshops intended for children, mentored by experts in different cultural, artistic and social fields. The idea is to give children a chance to spend time at the cinema before and after the screenings and to fill this time with learning and fun.
