This year’s Vsetín Film Marathon brings you gems from Croatia – Discover new cinematic experiences!

Film lovers from all over the country and from Slovakia flock to see films from the Balkans. Yet the Vsetín Film Marathon still has a very pleasant, homely atmosphere that has charmed even foreign directors, who are used to large international festivals.

This year marks the 28th edition of the Vsetín Film Festival. Since 2008, the festival has focused on exploring Balkan cinema. This year’s edition is subtitled ‘From Yugoslavia to Croatia’. This year’s programme builds on last year’s, which focused on the works of Croatian directors from the second half of the twentieth century – that is, from the Yugoslav era and the first decade of independent Croatia.

Festival-goers can thus look forward to three classic films by the prominent Croatian director Branko Bauer, four films by the most famous Yugoslav modernist Vatroslav Mimica, and four socially critical films by the most prolific Croatian director of the twentieth century, Fadil Hadžić. The programme will be complemented by the erotic drama Haloa by Lordan Zafranović from the late 1980s and two new Croatian films, which are very fresh.