CROATIA

Film Festivals Folk Festivals World Music and Arts Festivals

Festivals of the Arts

Dubrovnik Summer Festival. [July-August] Od Sigurate 1. 20 000 Dubrovnik. Croatia. Tel: +385 (0)20 326 100. Fax: +385 (0)20 326 116.
The history of Dubrovnik Summer Festival was - undoubtedly - conceived during thirteen nights of September 1950, when a real town persistently and uniquely transformed itself into an imaginary Town. Ten years later, French writer Claude Aveline, who had taken part, wrote how he could not surmise that he was attending "the birth of one of the most glorious festivals of our time".

Dubrovnik International Film Festival. [May] Tel: (385) 091 578 82 24.

Split FIlm Festival. [June] Split Film Festival. P.O. Box. 244 HR-21 000 Split, Croatia. Tel: +385 21 539 600 Fax: +385 21 539 700.
The Festival is open to all new, innovative, personal, experimental, radical, subversive etc. work (film, video, new media) of all genres and lengths, preferably from outside the mainstream, whether it was made on shoe string budget, or is a studio release. as recent developments indicate that more contemporary artists are looking for new ways of expression in audio visual medium, the festival will present works involving traditional film techniques or the latest technology of electronic image. The Festival presents screenings of selected films and videos, cd-roms, installations, performances, retrospectives, workshops, discussions and festival's catalogue. along with special money prizes, the festival's sculpture is awarded for each category, by international juries.

Zagreb Film Festival. [October] SC - Savska 25. 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. Tel: +385 1 48 29 477. Fax: +385 1 45 93 691. Program Coordinator, Ivana Vukšić.
Zagreb Film Festival is a new cultural manifestation in Zagreb. Festival is taking place in urban area and stimulates innovativeness and co-operation as important defining factors of urban culture. During the festival's five days The Student centre will be a kind of city in a city: it will revive the memories inscribed in rooms where, during the 20th century, some of the most important events on Zagreb cultural scene are taking place: exhibitions of Zagreb choir, Theatre & TD plays, exhibitions in the Gallery of the Student centre, MM centre showings, new wave concerts, and theatre plays performed by alternative groups.

Zagreb International Folklore Festival. [July] Zagreb Concert Management Kneza Mislava 18, 10000 Zagreb,Croatia. Tel: +385(1)4501-194,4501-200. Fax: +385(1)4611-807.
Folklore festivals have a long standing tradition in Croatia. From 1930s to 1950s, they had been gathering local participants and presenting traditional Croatian culture. In 1966, the International Folklore Festival was established and Zagreb has ever since been a vivacious meeting point for members of different nations and cultures, a stage for their music, dance, and other heritage.

Womad Ocean Day. [September] Dubrovnik. Tel: 44-1225-744494 [WOMAD - World of Music, Arts and Dance - celebrates music, arts and dance from countries and cultures all over the world.]