December 4, 2022 - The jubilee 20^th edition of the Human Rights Film Festival will begin with the screening of the documentary film "The Super 8 Years" by Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, on Sunday at the Tuskanac Cinema in Zagreb.

As 24Sata writes, until next Sunday, 26 documentaries and feature films of recent original production will be shown, and a programme will be held on current human rights issues.

Annie Ernaux, in the opening film, which she co-directed with her son David Ernaux-Briot, as she does in her literary works, combines autobiography with a sociological view of contemporary events. The screening of that film will be followed by the world premiere of the experimental film "Refractions" by Vladislav Knežević and the Croatian feature film "Afterwater" by Dana Komljen.

The festival also features four documentaries by Mantas Kvedaravičius, the Lithuanian director who was killed by Russian soldiers in April of this year while filming in Mariupol, Ukraine - "Barzah," "Mariupolis," "Mariupolis 2", "Parthenon."

The documentary "Casa Susanna" by Sébastien Lifshitz tells about the house of the same name, which in the middle of the 20^th century was a refuge for heterosexual men who dressed as women, the feature film "Sparta" by Ulrich Seidlai is about a pedophile who operates in the poorest parts of Romania, while the new film by Véréne Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor's "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" was filmed in Paris hospitals.

Other films to be presented include "No Bears" by Jafar Panahi, who was sentenced to six years in prison by the Iranian authorities to prevent him from making films, the colonial thriller "A Tale of the Pacific" by Alberto Serra, "Eami" by Paraguayan director Paz Encin about the natives of the area with the most rate of deforestation and the documentary "Provincial Hospital" which was filmed in a Bulgarian hospital, the new films by Sergej Loznica "The Natural History of Destruction" and "The Kiev Trial".

Panels and lectures programme

The other part of the festival will discuss how to advocate for human rights and gain support, the mental health crisis in Croatia, safe housing, adoption in LGBTQI+ families in Croatia and Norway, along with the screening of the documentary film "All families are equal".

The Sakharov Academy deals with Ukraine, there will also be a Seminar for Precarious Times, with online lectures on creative and intellectual work, panels on climate change and migration, the challenges of Africans in Croatia, discussions with the films "Bigger than Trauma" by Vedrana Pribačić and "Taming the Garden " Salomé Jashi.

Films are shown in the Tuškanac and Kinoteka cinemas, the resr of the programme will be in Dokukin KIC, and the musical concert of the Kries group in the Močvara club. The organisers are Multimedia Institute/MaMa Zagreb and URK/Močvara, and admission to all programs except the music one is free.

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ZAGREB, 5 Nov 2021 - Zagreb's Tuškanac Cinema will feature nine contemporary Azerbaijani films as part of the programme "Panorama: Contemporary Azerbaijani Film", to be held between November 8 and 10.

The programme will be opened by the film Nabat (2014), directed by Elchin Musaoglu, Azerbaijani's candidate for the 2015 Oscar award in the best feature category. Also screened will be four feature and four short films made between 2014 and 2020.

The event is organised in cooperation with the Azerbaijani Embassy in Croatia, the Croatian-Azerbaijani Friendship Association and the Croatian-Azerbaijani economic and cultural centre Caspi.

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The Zagreb.info website writes about the new season of movie projections on the Tuškanac Summer Stage, starting this weekend, on June 8th!

The first event of the new season is the guest open-air program by the Animafest Zagreb Animated Film Festival: Take me to the moon, which will start at 9:30 in the evening. That same evening the projection of the restored original version of one of the most significant movies of all times, A Trip to the Moon by Georges Méliès, created in 1902. Many other significant titles will be shown as well, such as Vukotić's Cow on the Moon, short Danish SF film Solar Walk, and A Grand Day Out, the first in the series of the famous stop-animation series Wallace and Gromit by the four-time Academy Award winner Nick Park.

After the animated film celebration, from June 10th until 13th the Tuškanac Summer Stage will welcome the program Motovunizacija!, bringing you the best movies from the Motovun Film Festival. The Angel, a biographical crime drama, directed by a young Argentine director Luis Ortega and produced by famous Pedro Almodóvar will be shown. Italian comedy Perfect Strangers by Paolo Genovese, Russian drama The Student by Kirill Serebrennikov and Spanish drama The Fury of a Patient Man will be shown in the following days.

And, after those two programmes, numerous recent hits will be shown throughout the summer, including Rocketman, Elton John's biography by Dexter Fletcher, The Hustle, a remake of an old comedy hit Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Dragged Across Concrete, starring Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn. Also, the final films in both the X-Man and the Avengers franchises will be shown on Tuškanac Summer Stage.

In late June and early July, the Fantastic Film Festival will take over Tuškanac, and during July, the Review of European Film and the selection of films from the Zagreb Film Festival will be shown. In August, a series of musical films will be shown, organised by Time Out Croatia and the Tuškanac Summer Stage.

Most screenings will be starting at 9:30 pm, except for some movies from the Fantastic Film Festival, which will start at 10 pm. Tickets will be sold at Tuškanac, starting at 8 pm each day when there's a screening, at 30 kunas (Animafest Open Air program tickets are 25 kunas). The entire Tuškanac Summer Stage is dog-friendly.

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Zagreb has many beautiful parks, with the most heavily frequented being the likes of Maksimir and Bundek to name just a couple of them, but there is one other park which is much lesser known than either of the previously mentioned; Grad mladih, located in the eastern zone of Dubrava which longtime Zagreb mayor Milan Bandić has his eye on.

As Poslovni Dnevnik/VLM writes on the 28th of May, 2019, despite being far less known than let's say, Zrinjevac, Grad mladih is still considered by many to be (or at least have been) a pearl of the City of Zagreb, and after the completion of the announced works, the claims are that it will be more beautiful than the likes of Maksimir, Bundek and Tuškanac put together.

A bold claim indeed, but confidently asserted by Zagreb's Milan Bandić during a visit to the aforementioned Zagreb park, where the first machines set to undetake the work arrived yesterday. They began working on the setting up of a 2.5 kilometre long, 2.2 million kuna fence. Works on the complete revival of the former park, affectionately referred to as ''Pioneer'' will take place in four different phases.

After the fence is in place, a video monitor will be set up, followed by all of the necessary communal infrastructure. The water supply network and hydrant network as well as a proper drainage system will be reconstructed.

Out of a total of 43 facilities located in this Zagreb park, seventeen are empty. This year, at least according to the announcements, twelve of them, for which all of the necessary project documentation is still being prepared, will be repaired and thus restored.

As far as the building there is concerned, more than five thousand square metres will be renovated, which includes the renovation of accommodation facilities, as well as the reception, the halls, the galleries, and the restaurants. In about four years, when these works worth a massive 40 million euros should be completed, this Zagreb park will also receive a hall, new playgrounds and a swimming pool, the construction was initially planned back in 1948 when ''Pioneer Town'' was built.

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The summer cinema Tuškanac in Zagreb will be showing some of the best films as part of the Zagreb Film Festival.

A new boutique style music festival is hitting the streets of Zagreb this June, and we know we can't wait!