The Icelandic film Rams is opening the 13th edition of Zagreb Film Festival on Saturday at Europa Cinema, 8pm. Director Grímur Hákonarson and Icelandic actors Sigurður Sigurjónsson and Theodór Júlíusson, who star as two brothers at war, Gummi and Kiddi, will attend the opening screening and greet the audience. Rams is the Icelandic Oscar candidate in the best foreign film category and the winner in Un Certain Regard at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Aside from being the star of the festival lead visual, portrayed in Tošo Dabac’s 1939 photograph, the Croatian capital will also appear at the festival in two other important ‘film roles’. Before the screening of Rams, the audience will get a rare chance to see a film postcard Zagabria from 1911, one of the most important discoveries in Croatian film archaeology and the oldest record of the capital city’s life. We are also screening it at the festival closing on Saturday, 221 November, next to the third omnibus Zagreb Stories, produced by Propeler film.
Zagreb Film Festival this year lasts for whole nine days (Saturday, 14 thru Sunday, 22 November) and is bringing a total of 109 films in competition, nine special programs and a series of special screenings. This year also there will be hangouts organised, powered by Ožujsko beer, at the Europa Cinema lobby and Vynil bar, and the party begins on Saturday at 7pm in front of Europa Cinema with a performance by the Zagreb-based band TITS (Tihana i tatini sinovi), led by our award-winning actress Tihana Lazović.