Motovun Film Festival

Motovun Film Festival
Location	Motovun, Croatia
Founded	1999
Language	International
	Official website

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Motovun Film Festival is an annual film festival established in 1999 and held in Motovun, Croatia. It usually takes place over 5–6 days in late July or early August. Motovun Film Festival is also the name of the company organizing the festival.

[edit] Overview

Festival logo

Motovun Film Festival is entirely dedicated to films made in small cinematographies and independent productions (on 10 August 1999, the day of opening of first Motovun Film Festival, there was not even one non-Hollywood film being shown in Croatian cinemas). In everything, except for the ambition and the quality, Motovun wants to be a small festival showing small films, small in the warmest sense of the word. Festival program consists of around 70 titles from all over the world, from documentaries to feature films, from short to long films, from guerilla made films to co-productions. The only criteria in their selection is that they fit in the open-minded atmosphere of the festival with their innovations.

In years since the festival first started it became widely popular among Croatian youth, especially students. Every year during the festival a camp for visitors is organized on the foothills of Motovun, where anybody can put up their tent almost for free (the daily fee of 5 kn (roughly 1 USD) is paid to the local tourist office). The visitors' camp has become one of its hallmarks. In January 2007 The Guardian described the festival as "a cross between Glastonbury and Sundance" in its travel section. ^[1]

The festival also gained in status. From what was once a backpacker's film festival, it is today widely recognized as being the most important film festival held on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, along with the Sarajevo Film Festival. ^[2]

[edit] Awards

The main award at the festival is called Propeler Motovuna (English: The Propeller of Motovun, inspired by the prominent wind turbines located near Motovun).

Other awards at the festival are the Motovun Online award for best short film, the odAdoA (From 'A' to 'A') award for best film in the regional competition (the name of the award is short for From Austria to Albania, roughly describing the region covered), and the film critics' FIPRESCI Award.

In 2008, the Motovun Maverick Award was introduced, given to notable filmmakers for lifetime achievement. Its first recipient was Ken Russell.

[edit] Award winners

[edit] Propeller of Motovun

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
2000	Billy Elliot	N/A	Stephen Daldry	United Kingdom
2001	Last Resort	N/A	Paweł Pawlikowski	United Kingdom
2002	Bloody Sunday	N/A	Paul Greengrass	United Kingdom
2003	Punch-Drunk Love	N/A	Paul Thomas Anderson	United States
2004	Ae Fond Kiss...	N/A	Ken Loach	United Kingdom
2005	The Death of Mr. Lazarescu	Moartea domnului Lăzărescu	Cristi Puiu	Romania
2006	Look Both Ways	N/A	Sarah Watt	Australia
2007	Sweet Mud	Adama Meshuga'at	Dror Shaul	Israel
2008	Silent Light	Stellet Lijcht	Carlos Reygadas	Mexico
2009	Fish Tank	N/A	Andrea Arnold	United Kingdom
2010	October	Octubre	Daniel and Diego Vega Vidal	Peru
2011	Bullhead	Rundskop	Michaël R. Roskam	Belgium

[edit] FIPRESCI Award

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
2001	No Man's Land	Ničija zemlja	Danis Tanović	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2002	Grill Point	Halbe Treppe	Andreas Dresen	Germany
2003	Margarette's Feast	A Festa de Margarette	Renato Falcão	Brazil
2004	The Five Obstructions	De fem benspænd	Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth	Denmark
2005	Day and Night	Dag och natt	Simon Staho	Sweden
2006	We Feed the World	N/A	Erwin Wagenhofer	Austria
2007	Hallam Foe	N/A	David Mackenzie	United Kingdom
2008	Blind Loves	Slepé lásky	Juraj Lehotský	Slovakia
2009	Fish Tank	N/A	Andrea Arnold	United Kingdom
2010	The Four Times	Le quattro volte	Michelangelo Frammartino	Italy
2011	Martha	N/A	Marcelino Islas Hernández	Mexico