Introductory note

"To understand the present, we must understand history. However, it is interpreted. The interpretation of history can be a drama, thriller, melodrama, tragedy, western or comedy. History Film Festival has it all.''

The seventh edition of the History Film Festival - an international historical documentary film festival will be held from September 12 to 16 in Rijeka. Twenty films from the official competition program will be screened in Rijeka's Art-Kino, where the audience will have the opportunity to meet and talk with numerous guest authors. The winners in nine categories will be decided by an international jury consisting of actress, screenwriter and director Lana Barić, screenwriter, director and film critic Rada Šešić and director Igor M. Toholj. At this year's History Film Festival, four films will have their world premiere, seven will have their European premiere, and nineteen will have their Croatian premiere. Apart from Rijeka, the festival will be hosted in Dvorana Zora in Crikvenica on September 13 and 14.

The specificity of this year's program is that the selected films mostly deal with historical themes and events after the Second World War. Although the horrors of that war should never be forgotten, we must turn to stories about people and events closer to our everyday lives in order to better understand the world around us.

The stories of this year's films take us from the colonial conquests told through the hot pepper motif in Velasquez's famous painting, through the memories behind the famous photo of the Vietnamese girl with napalm, Margaret Thatcher and the introduction of neoliberal ideas, the system in which we still live today, to the current times of the struggle for human rights, migrations, racial and political conflicts shown through a film about the demolition of monuments and myths due to ideological disagreements and finally, this year's History Film Festival brings an inspiring story about the importance of belonging to a community in a time of alienation. All these films talk about people, events and ideas that shaped the world we live in, and are based on exhaustive research of archival materials, which is particularly important in times of media spin and fake news.

The program at Art-kino ends on Saturday, September 16th. At 10 A.M. in the Art-kino atrium, the so-called coffee with authors, during which the audience will have the opportunity to meet and talk with guest authors. After the last block of films in the evening, awards will be presented in ten categories.

BORIS RUŽIĆ,
Festival selector
ISTRA FILM predstavlja HISTORY FILM FESTIVAL
Izvršna direktorica TIHA MODRIĆ
Producenti TIHA MODRIĆ & DEJAN BOJC
Video produkcija ROBERT KALČIĆ & IGOR MODRIĆ
Dizajner ROBERT KRANČIĆ
Fotografije RINO GROPUZZO
Grafičko i web oblikovanje GRAFIK, Rijeka
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