En route to the 20th edition
Pre-festival anniversary screenings

The story of Split Film Festival has begun in 1996 and, from its very first days, it profiled itself as a cinematic force to be reckoned with. The first catalogue stated its artistic vision with utmost clarity:

“The energy and the author’s personal vision we may feel in some of the works presented at the Festival might alter a little our conscience, lower our self-importance, thus helping us to break the chains that bind us to our everyday habits and hopefully let us endure and even find a delight in this horrible, yet the most beautiful world.”

Nineteen editions into the future – and the vision still rings very much true!

In celebration of its upcoming 20^th edition, we at the Split Film Festival have decided to give our faithful audience an insight into the years behind us! Starting with May 7, 19 weeks before this year’s Festival (12 – 19 September), film lovers will have a chance to revisit interesting titles from the previous edition—one edition per week—at the new Split cinema, Beton kino (Dom mladih, Ulica slobode 28), completely free of charge!

Generally, the screenings (one feature and several shorts) are planned for Thursdays, with the last one planned for the week before this year’s edition. By commemorating one Festival year per week, the idea is to use the 19-week programme run to remember the two decennia of film as art and our Split Film Festival as such. A few names worthy of a mention from the two-decade run: Bela Tarr, Lars von Trier, Chris Marker, Miklós Jancsó, Jonas Mekas, Jean-Luc Godard, Sally Potter, Tom Tykwer, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Albert Serra, Bruce McDonald, Julio Bressane, Glauber Rocha, José Padilha, Sergei Loznitsa, Avi Mograbi, Raya Martin, Antoine d’Agata, György Pálfi,Naomi Kawase, with many others.

More information about all the events in store available on our official Facebook pagewww.facebook.com/SplitFilmFestival as well as our website www.splitfilmfestival.hr.

SCREENINGS:

MAY 7 – STFF 1996
Kim Longinotto / Jano Williams, SHINJUKU BOYS
Zoran Dragelj, MOVING PLATES
Milan Bukovac, BACK HOME
Simon B. Narath, HAND OF A MASTER
Vladislav Knežević, X TACTILE TRANSITION

MAY 14 – STFF 1997
Alyson Bell, HERE I SIT
Beriou, CLOISON
Maria Beatty, THE BLACK GLOVE
Chris Marker, LA JETÉE

MAY 21 – STFF 1998
Johan Grimonprez, DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
George Barber, WITHDRAWAL
Gerrit van Dýk, I MOVE, SO I AM
Pierre Yves Clouvin, CUL EN L’AIR

 MAY 28 – STFF 1999
Tom Tykwer, LOLA RENNT
Ian Duncan / Pawel Pawlikovski, TWOCKERS

JUNE 3 – STFF 2000
Peter Brosens / Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh STATE OF DOGS
Ben van Lieshout DE ZONE

JUNE 11 – STFF 2001
Lars von Trier, EUROPA
Arthur de Pins, GÉRALDINE

JUNE 18 – STFF 2002
Tomislav Gotovac, DEAD MAN WALKING
Michael Brynntup, ACHTUNG – DIE ACHTUNG
Phil Molloy, INVASION

VIII. JUNE 26 – STFF 2003
Louise Hogarth, THE GIFT
Jason Britski, SHOOTING STAR
Virgil Widrich, FAST FILM

JULY 2 – STFF 2004
Morten Schjødt, SWITCHING
Jean-Gabriel Périot, WE ARE WINNING DON’T FORGET
Pekka Sassi, PLANCK’S CONSTANT

JULY 9 – STFF 2005
Jon Jost, HOMECOMING
Bela Tarr, PROLOGUE
Avi Mograbi, DETAIL
Edouard Salier, EMPIRE

JULY 16 – STFF 2006
Nico Bunnik, ATLA
Bruce Baillie, CASTRO STREET & ALL MY LIFE

XII. JULY 23 – STFF 2007
TBA