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Dubrovnik Film Meeting

Dubrovnik Film Meeting is a manifestation emerged in cooperation between Adriatic Luxury Hotels, Sarajevo Film Festival, and the magazine Glorija. This is a unique film event which eminent guests of the Sarajevo Film Festival have been visiting for four years now.

Until now, thanks to this manifestation, Dubrovnik audience has had the chance to see some of the most famous film workers of today, among which there are:
actors Nick Nolte, Steve Buscemi, Kevin Spacey, Gillian Anderson, Mickey Rourke, Morgan Freeman; producers and directors Cat Villers, Terry George, Danis Tanović, Jasmila Žbanić, Darren Aronofsky as well as numerous famous Hollywood A production actors and directors.

The highlight of the Adriatic Luxury Hotels spectacular summer program ‘Stars underneath the Stars’ is certainly the Dubrovnik Film Meeting which has during the recent years become an ever more influential film manifestation.

Fourth year in the raw this unique manifestation is organized by the Adriatic Luxury Hotels in cooperation with the most prestigious regional film festival – Sarajevo Film Festival and Gloria Magazine.
This year’s Dubrovnik Film Meeting will last two days, 21 and 22 August. On the first evening on the VIP Beach at the Dubrovnik Palace Hotel movie “The Wrestler” will be screened. The star of the spectacular evening will be the leading actor of this touching sports drama, Mickey Rourke, and director, screenwriter and producer Darren Aronofsky. The eminent American actress Gillian Anderson will also attend the Dubrovnik Film Meeting.

On the second day, that is August 22, Adriatic Luxury Hotels and Sarajevo Film Festival in cooperation with Dubrovnik Summer Festival will organize a unique and unrepeatable gala film screening underneath the stars in the very centre of the old city of Dubrovnik, on the field in front of the Knežev dvor.
That way, more than a thousand viewers from Dubrovnik and their guests will have the chance to see this outstanding realization.

International Film Festival

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.

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