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In this decade the most successful theater season in Croatia were 2004 with 2.98 and 2006 with 2,67 million tickets. Year 2006 is interesting because it was the year in which the audience influenced hits from non Hollywood area, as well as three national films: mostly What is a Man without a Moustache (Sto je muskarac bez brkova) by Hrvoje Hribar, The Ghost in The Swamp (Duh u mocvari) by Branko Istvancic and Border Post (Karaula) by Rajko Grlic
The most encouraging is a fact that among the best box-office results were several domestic hit films. Domestic films participate with approximately 10% in annual cinema box-office. What is a Man without a Moustache (Sto je muskarac bez brkova), a romantic comedy by Hrvoje Hribar, with 150 thousand visitors is placed second on the annual box-office report, following Borat, the global phenomenon by Sacha Baron Cohen. Among top ten there is one more domestic film - The Ghost in the Swamp (Duh u mocvari), by Branko Istvancic - the first children's film made after many years which gives us even more hope that the national cinematographic expression is expending in the right direction.
Documentary Wellman awarded in Italy Documentary by Branko Istvancic 'Wellman' has been rewarded with the Special Jury Award at the Delta Film Festival in Bologna (Italy). |
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Od zrna do slike / From Grain to Painting TRAILER HD From Grain to Painting The aim of this insert from creative documentary film by Branko Istvancic is attempt to make an eternal memory about female straw artisans Croats called "Bunjevci", also known as "slamarke" (straw-girls), whereby, this is not only a tribute to this special art skill but also our way to inspire people to renew this skill and thereby preserve this cultural heritage which is gradually but surely disappearing. In HD this documentary would be showing the story about the straw knitters, straw artisans, which attract attention in their homeland as well as in the rest of the world by making pictures in straw technique. The Croatian minority in Serbia in the last years absolutely experienced the fact that culture depends on politics. From one side, from the aspect of the state, Croats in Vojvodina are good for obligations like paying Serbian taxes or for recruitment in the Serbian army, but not desirable when mentioning it as a new minority after ex Yugoslavia because of special rights. From the other hand, in the Croatian community, the culture strongly reflects the opposition of two sides: the Croatian political elite, and the Catholic Church. Luckily, the concept of culture includes also things like inspiration, creativity, imagination, which can also bring some valuable fruits. It will be document about wonderful Croatian minority as well as people who are ignored and marginalized in Serbia today and forgotten by their Croatian homeland in the other hand. Naive female artists called straw-girls Croats in the north of today's Vojvodina are something like forgotten miracle. The name "straw-girls" is derived from Croatian name for straw. They use straw weaving for making beautiful and poetic description of their hard and lonely life at home which is a small oasis with a hut in immense Panonian golden plain with several trees and unavoidable well.
Fair Play (one minute film) Fair Play for download wmv 2,3 MB
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