Stars, glamour, awards…sounds like a Filmfestival?
Yes it is a Filfestival!Ok, it is not the Oscar but it also a unique, famous and important event.
I am talking about the Dubrovnik International Film Festival (the DIFF).The prizes will be awarded in competitive categories of feature film, documentary and short film.
The first Dubrovnik International Film Festival ( or DIFF) took place in 2003 and assembled many lovers and writers of films in this “city of artists’, since then. There is a wide range of internationally important productions of the filmmaking-industry presented on this film festival.
Festival awards will be handed out in the categories: best film, best director, best screenplay and best cinematography. Prizes also will be awarded to works of the genre shorts and documentaries.
But the most important awards are following three prizes: The award “Libertas” is for authors who had the recognition and the expression of reverence for visions and a professional, creative way of film-life, or more simply, this is a award for a life’s work. The “Argosy”award stands for an outstanding, individual way of filmmaking, and the third one will be awarded by the audience.
The festival takes place over four days in four different theaters.
The Dubrovnik Film Festival lures, in addition to many tourists, a large number of film fanciers, and also some international celebrities to the city, every year. Besides many Croatian celebrities, some very well known international celebrities visited this festival in Dubrovnik, like the program director of Sundance Film Festival Trevor Gorth, Holywood actors Owen Wilson and Woody Harelson and many others.
This year the Holywood director Ira Sacha and the actor and Oscar award winner, Chris Cooper confirmed their arriving.




