A writer and director. He graduated in Film and TV Directing from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, where he has been working as a professor since 2013. He directed a segment of the anthology film <\/span>Sex, Booze and Short Fuse<\/span><\/i> (2004), after which he went on to write and direct <\/span>All for Free<\/span><\/i> (2005), <\/span>Donkey<\/span><\/i> (2009), <\/span>Life Is a Trumpet<\/span><\/i> (2015) and <\/span>Mali<\/span><\/i> (2018).<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"number":"mentor","title":"Pjer \u017dalica","description":" Director, writer, producer, and dean at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. Famous for <\/span>Fuse<\/span><\/i> (2003), <\/span>Days and Hours<\/span><\/i> (2004) and <\/span>May Labour Day<\/span><\/i> (ZFF 2022). Wrote the screenplay for <\/span>The Frog<\/span><\/i> (ZFF 2015) and directed several fiction shorts and documentaries, as well as plays, TV formats, ads and music videos. One of the partners at production company Refresh.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"number":"guest lecturer","title":"Olmo Omerzu","description":" Slovenian director and screenwriter. He studied at FAMU in Prague. He is the director of the feature films <\/span>A Night Too Young<\/span><\/i> (Berlinale 2012), <\/span>Family Film<\/span><\/i> (ZFF 2015; San Sebasti\u00e1n), <\/span>Winter Flies<\/span><\/i> (ZFF 2018; Karlovy Vary \u2013 Best Director; Toronto IFF) and <\/span>Bird Atlas<\/span><\/i> (Karlovy Vary 2021). He is a lecturer for the MIDPOINT Institute programs.<\/span><\/p>\n"}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"grid","columns":[{"number":"participant","title":"Du\u0161anka Belada","description":" Theatre and film director from Cetinje. Graduated from the Academy of Arts, Novi Sad. Since 2019, she has collaborated with the Montenegrin National Theatre, staging two plays. She makes documentaries and short educational films and plays for children and youth. Next to directing, she is involved in writing, music and editing. She collaborates with writer Jovan Bo\u0161kovi\u0107 on creative projects.<\/span><\/p>\n B.R.P.S.(Breeze\/River\/Plant\/Sun)<\/b><\/p>\n The political elite comes to a forlorn poor town to present a project to build a hydroelectric plant on a protected river. European environmental activists arrive to prevent the construction of the HPP in the first green country in the world. Different concepts of the world, conscience and freedom lead to intense conflicts between the various interests of state, NGO sector, media, local population and foreigners, and some personal conflicts too.<\/span><\/p>\n Project status<\/b><\/p>\n In development<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Kontakt \/ <\/b>Contact<\/b><\/p>\n Du\u0161anka Belada (director), beladadusanka@gmail.com<\/span><\/p>\n Jovan Bo\u0161kovi\u0107 (writer), jovan.boskovic11t@gmail.com<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"number":"participant","title":"Gledis Bica","description":" Albanian director, screenwriter and producer with background in shorts and documentaries. Making films since his high school, when his works were shown at DokuFest and ZagrebDox festivals. He participated in the Sarajevo Film Festival workshop Script Station. Currently developing his first feature film, <\/span>Between Earth and Sky<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n Between Earth and Sky Project status Contact Marko Kova\u010d (Belgrade, 1981) is a screenwriter and director. He graduated in architecture from the University of Belgrade. He has written and directed several award-winning shorts, including <\/span>The Undersigned<\/span><\/i> (2007), <\/span>The Undersigned 3<\/span><\/i> (2010), <\/span>Psycho<\/span><\/i> (2011), <\/span>Greenwoodo<\/span><\/i> (2012) and <\/span>The Circle<\/span><\/i> (2015).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Perfect Place for Unhappiness Project status Contact <\/p>\n"},{"number":"participant","title":"Radovan Petrovi\u0107","description":" Radovan Petrovi\u0107 (<\/span>Skopje<\/span>, 1983) is a Macedonian director and editor. He has more than ten years of experience in editing short and feature films and documentaries. He graduated in film and TV directing at the Film Academy in \u0160tip. So far, he has directed five short films and several TV series. Currently preparing his first feature film.<\/span><\/p>\n Zora Project status Contact Bojan Radanovi\u0107 (Nova Gradi\u0161ka, 1979) graduated in Film and TV Directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. He is the director of short films, some of which were shown at the Zagreb Film Festival: <\/span>Before Dark<\/span><\/i> (ZFF 2016), <\/span>Letters<\/span><\/i> (ZFF 2019) and <\/span>Fender<\/span><\/i> (ZFF 2022). Currently in pre-production with his feature film of the working title <\/span>Pushback<\/span><\/i>. He lives and works in Zagreb.<\/span><\/p>\n Pushback Project status Contact![\"\"](\"https:\/\/zff.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Antonio_Nuic_novi-mentor-umjesto-Srdjana-Kr-768x576.jpg\")
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\n<\/b><\/em>Astrit lives in Norway with his estranged father. After his father\u2019s death, Astrit\u2019s life changes drastically. He hires an Albanian funeral home to return his father\u2019s body to his homeland and thus meets the funeral driver Ilir. He soon realizes that Ilir shares troubling similarities with his father. When their hearse is hijacked in Prague, Astrit is forced to face his deepest fears.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>In development.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Gledis Bica (writer\/director), gledisbica@gmail.com
\n<\/span>Ajsela Vojka (producer), ajselavojka@gmail.com<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"number":"participant","title":"Marko Kova\u010d","description":"<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/em>Two intellectuals from the Balkans, childhood best friends whose lives diverged during the war now scape a living on the streets of Paris, unaware of being in the same city. Until the moment they meet again \u2013 in the darkness of a Parisian prison. A story of another Paris we don\u2019t see on colourful tourist postcards. The story of the dark underbelly of the metropolis known as the city of light.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>In development. Rights for novel adaptation secured.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Marko Kova\u010d (director), marko.b.kovac@gmail.com<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/em>Ljubi\u0161a exploits his wife and underage daughter Maria, who are forced to take care of the family tavern, the gathering place for guests of different nationalities. Maria works as a waitress, and at her father\u2019s insistence as a singer, which makes her the target of ridicule and bullying at school. One day Maria disappears. Police investigation leads nowhere, Ljubi\u0161a blames everyone but himself, suspecting the Albanian guests most of all.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>In development.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Radovan Petrovi\u0107 (writer\/director), rasho983@gmail.com
\n<\/span>Robert Naskov (producer; Partysans production), robert@partysans.com.mk<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"number":"participant","title":"Bojan Radanovi\u0107","description":"<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/em>Lawyer Daria (37) decides to represent a refugee family from Syria, whose daughter Ferida (6) was killed in a train accident on the border between Croatia and Serbia because of an error of the Croatian police. What was supposed to be just a routine meeting between lawyer and clients, turns into an agonizing struggle with the police system, as personal and family traumas escalate.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Supported by HAVC for script and project development.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Bojan Radanovi\u0107 (director), bojan.radanovic@gmail.com<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"number":"participant","title":"Ana Tonkovi\u0107","description":"