After four festival days and 29 films competing for the awards, the festival juries & audiences have decided on their favourites.

 

We only got in the swing of things, and it’s closing time! The festival closing ceremony takes place at 8pm with a screening of award-winning films, and earlier in the day Davor Sanvincenti will introduce us to the meta-cinematic classic Salam Cinema by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and we’ll have a chance to enjoy the meditative classics of the avant-garde film legend Nathaniel Dorsky.

Day three at the 25 FPS Festival is marked by expanding the mind, horizons and personal freedoms: Randa Maroufi helps us explore the legacy of feminism in Out of the Walls programme, we delve into abstract landscapes of the audiovisual performance Jung An Tagen + Rainer Kohlberger in Expanded Cinema, and explore dreamlike landscapes of the mind and spirit in the last two competition programmes.

Day two at the 25 FPS Festival features two competition sections, an exploration of personal archives in the Private Lives section curated by jury member Maria Palacios Cruz and Funeral Parade of Roses in Kino 23.

Tonight at 8pm we’re opening the 25 FPS Festival of Experimental Film and Video, whose 16th edition takes place on 24-27 September 2020 at the SC Cinema in Zagreb and on 29 and 30 September at Art Cinema in Rijeka. Admission to all events is free of charge, but the tickets need to be downloaded via the Entrio system.

In addition to Competition and Jury’s Choice programmes, 25 FPS brings several programmes focused on avant-garde classics and expanded cinema performances: Toshio Matsumoto’s Funeral Parade of Roses, Jung An Tagen and Rainer Kohlberger’s immersive audiovisual performance and a selection of Nathaniel Dorsky’s most recent work.