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Rams to open the Zagreb Film Festival

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- The 13th ZFF features 13 first or second films in the main competition

Rams to open the Zagreb Film Festival
Rams by Grímur Hákonarson

The 13th Zagreb Film Festival (14-22 November) will open with the screening of Grímur Hákonarson's Rams [+see also:
film review
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interview: Grimur Hakonarson
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]
. The winner of the Cannes Un Certain Regard Award and a nominee for European Film 2015 at the EFAs is among 12 other movies in the competition for the Golden Pram for Best Feature Film, which comes with €4,000.

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The selection includes another Icelandic film, Rúnar Rúnarsson's Sparrows [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Atli Óskar Fjalarsson
interview: Rúnar Rúnarsson
film profile
]
, as well as two titles from the Czech Republic: Olmo Omerzu's Family Film [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Olmo Omerzu
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]
, which just earned its lead actor, Karel Roden, the Award for Outstanding Actor at Cottbus, and Slávek Horák's Home Care [+see also:
film review
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interview: Slávek Horák
film profile
]
, which world-premiered in Karlovy Vary's main competition.

Other European titles in the main competition include the Venice Orizzonti title A War [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Tobias Lindholm
film profile
]
by Tobias Lindholm, László Nemes' Cannes Grand Prix winner Son of Saul [+see also:
film review
trailer
Q&A: László Nemes
interview: László Rajk
film profile
]
Martti Helde's Estonian hit In the Crosswind [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Martti Helde
interview: Martti Helde
film profile
]
Ines Tanovic's Bosnian Oscar submission Our Everyday Life [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ines Tanović
film profile
]
and Rudi Rosenberg's winner of the San Sebastián New Directors Award, The New Kid [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Rudi Rosenberg
film profile
]
. The full line-up can be found here.

The jury consists of the director of last year's ZFF winner, Blind Dates [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Levan Koguashvili
film profile
]
, Levan Koguashvili, US director Jessica Woodworth (Khadak [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jessica Woodworth
interview: Jessica Woodworth
film profile
]
, The Fifth Season [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Jessica Woodworth
film profile
]
) and German producer Christoph Thoke, whose Of Horses and Men [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Benedikt Erlingsson
film profile
]
won a Special Mention at the 2014 ZFF.

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Checkers competition for short films made by young and aspiring Croatian filmmakers, the festival will organise a panel on the placement and distribution of short films, featuring speakers such as Laurence Reymond, programmer of shorts in the Cannes Directors' Fortnight, and Salette Ramalho of Curtas Vila do Conde. In addition, the festival will close with an out-of-competition screening of omnibus film Zagreb Stories Vol 3, consisting of six shorts made by Croatian filmmakers, including Vlatka Vorkapic (Sonja and the Bull [+see also:
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]
) and Danilo Serbedzija (72 Days [+see also:
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]
).

The PLUS programme, dedicated to young audiences, which was introduced last year, is becoming competitive this year: a jury consisting of five high-school students will award €500 to one of the four films listed here, in addition to The New Kid.

ZFF's traditional My First Film sidebar will this year be dedicated to filmmakers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, while The Great 5 will once again feature box-office hits from Spain, Germany, the UK, Italy and France. 

Together Again will consist of new films by ZFF's former competitors, including Radu Jude's Aferim! [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Radu Jude
film profile
]
Joachim Trier's Louder Than Bombs [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Joachim Trier
film profile
]
and Matteo Garrone's Tale of Tales [+see also:
film review
trailer
Q&A: Matteo Garrone
film profile
]
.

Other sidebar programmes include a retrospective of Orson Welles, a selection of “Making Of” documentaries, Eastern European horrors from the 1960s-1980s and the LUX Film Days.

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