ABOUT DISFF

DIVERSIONS INTERNATIONAL
SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

Diversions is an international short film festival initiated in 2014 in Sveti Ivan Zelina, Croatia. The festival promotes the values of auteur cinema.

In the last seven years, Diversions screened more than four hundred films from more than one hundred countries with international guests coming from Australia, Austria, China, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the UK.

In the side programs Diversions gathers film professionals and experts in industry panels, Q&As, workshops, and other similar activities. Diversions is a platform that experiments with other forms of creative expression.

DISFF 2021

Eight edition of the festival brings twenty-six international short films in the official selection, special anniversary retrospective of Filmmaker’s Cooperative from New York City and Doxanje: New Visions ; New Realities Industry panel. Apart from live screenings, the program will be available as VoD and through live broadcasts. Festival will be opened on July 5th with the exhibition “City as a person” by local artist and writer Marija Biljan.

Submissions are now closed.

IMPRESSUM

CREW

PRODUCERS
Vesna Bičak-Dananić
Marinka Zubčić

FESTIVAL COORDINATORS
Lada Brnetić, Nina Kukec

HOSPITALITY
Leticija Rojc

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT AND PHOTOGRAPHER
Vida Žagar

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Marina Pecak

LIVE BROADCAST DIRECTOR
Lovro Čepelak

MIX AND PLAYOUT – REZOLUCIJA
Mario Vučemilović Jurić
Ivan Mikulandrić

BROADCAST PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Filip Vukovinski

MINISTRY OF SUBTITLES
Marko Godeč

CHIEF TECH. – KINO ZELINA
Marijan Fanjek

VISUAL IDENTITY, WEB DESIGN
Petra Milički

WEB PROGRAMMING
Nikola Greiner

AWARD’S DESIGNER
Monika Džakić

PUBLIC RELATIONS
Nina Brnetić

FESTIVAL SELECTORS
Martina Biljan
Isabela Falcão Vaz
Toma Zidić

SPECIAL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
Zorko Sirotić

FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
Toma Zidić


NEWS

RAZGOVOR S DOROM ŠUSTIĆ, PREDSJEDNICOM ŽIRIJA

UKRATKO SE PREDSTAVI, RECI NAM NEŠTO O SEBI.

Bok, ja sam Dora Šustić, scenaristica iz Rijeke. Završila sam dramaturgiju u Pragu i prije nekoliko mjeseci, od rujna živim u Zagrebu. Radim na filmskim i TV projektima kao dramaturginja, prevoditeljica i scenaristica te sam režirala nekolicinu kratkih filmova.

ŠTO TE NADAHNJUJE, OTKUDA VUČEŠ NADAHNUĆE ZA SVOJE RADOVE?

Nadahnjuju me priče iz obitelji, djetinjstva, sjećanja oca i majke te aktualne obiteljske teme. Također me nadahnjuje prijateljstvo, odnosi između prijatelja i prijateljica. Dugo sam imala fazu ženskih likova i temama koje se bave ženskom seksualnošću i odrastanjem. U zadnje vrijeme primjećujem kako mi se mijenja fokus i kako se više usmjeravam prema obiteljskoj tematici, pogotovo djetinjstvu.

KAO ČLANICA DISFF-OVOG ŽIRIJA, SMATRAŠ LI DA ĆEŠ BITI STROGA I POŠTENA ILI KAKO OCJENJUJETE SEBE KAO ČLANICU ŽIRIJA?

Stroga i pravedna (smijeh).

KOJIM KRITERIJIMA ĆEŠ SE VODITI PRILIKOM OCJENJIVANJA, ŠTO JE, PO TEBI, BITNIJE KOD FILMOVA?

Bok, ja sam Dora Šustić, scenaristica iz Rijeke. Završila sam dramaturgiju u Pragu i prije nekoliko mjeseci, od rujna živim u Zagrebu. Radim na filmskim i TV projektima kao dramaturginja, prevoditeljica i scenaristica te sam režirala nekolicinu
kratkih filmova.

RAZGOVOR S DOROM ŠUSTIĆ, PREDSJEDNICOM ŽIRIJA

UKRATKO SE PREDSTAVI, RECI NAM NEŠTO O SEBI.

Bok, ja sam Dora Šustić, scenaristica iz Rijeke. Završila sam dramaturgiju u Pragu i prije nekoliko mjeseci, od rujna živim u Zagrebu. Radim na filmskim i TV projektima kao dramaturginja, prevoditeljica i scenaristica te sam režirala nekolicinu kratkih filmova.

SCHEDULE

5.7. / MON

OPENING CEREMONY:
MARIJA BILJAN – CITY AS A PERSON
(EXHIBITION OPENING)
19:00 / KINO ZELINA

COMPTETITION 1
19:30 / KINO ZELINA + VIDEO ON DEMAND

6.7. / TUE

COMPTETITION 2
19:30 / KINO ZELINA + VIDEO ON DEMAND

7.7. / WED

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: 60 YEARS OF FILMMAKER’S
COOPERATIVE N.Y.C (SCREENING + Q&A)
16:30 / KINO ZELINA + LIVE STREAM

COMPTETITION 3
19:30 / KINO ZELINA + VIDEO ON DEMAND

8.7. / THU

DOXANJE: NEW VISIONS; NEW REALITIES
(INDUSTRY PANEL)
16:00 / KINO ZELINA + LIVE STREAM

COMPTETITION 4
19:30 / KINO ZELINA + VIDEO ON DEMAND

DISFF JURY


IVA KRALJEVIĆ is an editor and cinematographer for documentary, animation, and experimental films with a special interest in media experiments and socially engaged topics. In her free time, she is mentoring various student film projects of all sorts and formats.

DALIJA DOZET is playing the film and with film from her earliest ages while she graduated in fiction directing on the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. Since then she is involved as a writer and director on various auteur and commercial projects, short and feature films, and commercials. In 2016 she initiaded the “Filmska Runda” short film revue in Osijek. In her free time, she walks and thinks about the film, which makes her extremely happy and exceedingly crazy at the same time.

IVAN KLEPAC
Festival Jury Member on sale!
Brand Klepac, complicated, inarticulated, sun-burned (fell asleep on sun-deck somewhere in between Split and Vis Island). For price and other details write in the inbox, on request. Dimensions: 60 cm (width) x 186 cm (height). In good shape, without a scratch, just as new.” — a wise man once said, without even raising a word.

SPONSORS

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions are now closed.

DISFF

DIVERSIONS INTERNATIONAL
SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

Diversions is an international short film festival initiated in 2014 in Sveti Ivan Zelina, Croatia. The festival promotes the values of auteur cinema.

In the last seven years, Diversions screened more than four hundred films from more than one hundred countries with international guests coming from Australia, Austria, China, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the UK.

In the side programs Diversions gathers film professionals and experts in industry panels, Q&As, workshops, and other similar activities. Diversions is a platform that experiments with other forms of creative expression.

DISFF 2021

Eight edition of the festival brings twenty-six international short films in the official selection, special anniversary retrospective of Filmmaker’s Cooperative from New York City and Doxanje: New Visions ; New Realities Industry panel. Apart from live screenings, the program will be available as VoD and through live broadcasts. Festival will be opened on July 5th with the exhibition “City as a person” by local artist and writer Marija Biljan.

Submissions are now closed.

PROGRAMS

SCHEDULE

5.7. / MON

OPENING CEREMONY:
MARIJA BILJAN – CITY AS A PERSON
(EXHIBITION OPENING)
19:00 / KINO ZELINA

COMPTETITION 1
19:30 / KINO ZELINA + VIDEO ON DEMAND

6.7. / TUE

COMPTETITION 2
19:30 / KINO ZELINA + VIDEO ON DEMAND

7.7. / WED

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: 60 YEARS OF FILMMAKER’S
COOPERATIVE N.Y.C (SCREENING + Q&A)
16:30 / KINO ZELINA + LIVE STREAM

COMPTETITION 3
19:30 / KINO ZELINA + VIDEO ON DEMAND

8.7. / THU

DOXANJE: NEW VISIONS; NEW REALITIES
(INDUSTRY PANEL)
16:00 / KINO ZELINA + LIVE STREAM

COMPTETITION 4
19:30 / KINO ZELINA + VIDEO ON DEMAND

JURY


IVA KRALJEVIĆ is an editor and cinematographer for documentary, animation, and experimental films with a special interest in media experiments and socially engaged topics. In her free time, she is mentoring various student film projects of all sorts and formats.

DALIJA DOZET is playing the film and with film from her earliest ages while she graduated in fiction directing on the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. Since then she is involved as a writer and director on various auteur and commercial projects, short and feature films, and commercials. In 2016 she initiaded the “Filmska Runda” short film revue in Osijek. In her free time, she walks and thinks about the film, which makes her extremely happy and exceedingly crazy at the same time.

IVAN KLEPAC
Festival Jury Member on sale!
Brand Klepac, complicated, inarticulated, sun-burned (fell asleep on sun-deck somewhere in between Split and Vis Island). For price and other details write in the inbox, on request. Dimensions: 60 cm (width) x 186 cm (height). In good shape, without a scratch, just as new.” — a wise man once said, without even raising a word.

SPONSORS

IMPRESSUM

CREW

PRODUCERS
Vesna Bičak-Dananić
Marinka Zubčić

FESTIVAL COORDINATORS
Lada Brnetić, Nina Kukec

HOSPITALITY
Leticija Rojc

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT AND PHOTOGRAPHER
Vida Žagar

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Marina Pecak

LIVE BROADCAST DIRECTOR
Lovro Čepelak

MIX AND PLAYOUT – REZOLUCIJA
Mario Vučemilović Jurić
Ivan Mikulandrić

BROADCAST PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Filip Vukovinski

MINISTRY OF SUBTITLES
Marko Godeč

CHIEF TECH. – KINO ZELINA
Marijan Fanjek

VISUAL IDENTITY, WEB DESIGN
Petra Milički

WEB PROGRAMMING
Nikola Greiner

AWARD’S DESIGNER
Monika Džakić

PUBLIC RELATIONS
Nina Brnetić

FESTIVAL SELECTORS
Martina Biljan
Isabela Falcão Vaz
Toma Zidić

SPECIAL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
Zorko Sirotić

FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
Toma Zidić


Diversions International Short Film Festival
Vatrogasna 3
10380 Sveti Ivan Zelina – HR

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: 60 YEARS OF FILMMAKER’S COOPERATIVE N.Y.C

Following the retrospective programs which throughout the years featured Želimir Žilnik, Vedran Šamanović, Luksuz Produkcija, and Roy Andersson, Diversions brings the special birthday program of Filmmaker's Cooperative from New York City, the U.S.A for its eighth edition.

Initiated when the freedom of expression was under oppression, when censorship was an everyday routine and when the pro-war policy was rising in the society, the Filmmaker's Cooperative grew as a rebellious element providing safe and open space for critical thinking of an individual and where the freedom of expression was and still is the main cornerstone.

The Cooperative was founded in 1961 as a New American Cinema Group by 22 New York artists, including Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Ken, and Flo Jacobs, Andy Warhol, and Jack Smith. One of the main activities was the distribution of avant-garde cinema.

In 1981, under the leadership of Margery Keller, the NACG expanded its mission to include educational, artistic, and literary activities (as film screenings, workshops, seminars, etc.). In addition to the analog film, they also started distributing video and digital media.

Founding goals of Filmmaker's Cooperative:

· To encourage the development of a new cinema which reflects the highest ethical and aesthetic standards.

· To combat all forms of film censorship and licensing and all forms of interference in the making of motion pictures.

· To initiate and promote the development of methods of film financing, distribution and exhibiting.

A BRIEF HISTORY – BY JONAS MEKAS

The year was 1960. New York was buzzing with dreams of a new cinema — a cinema that would reflect the sensibilities of 1960. Inspired by the New York School of Cinema — a term used at the Venice Film Festival to introduce the works of Morris Engel, Sidney Meyers, and Lionel Rogosin — the French Nouvelle Vague burst upon the screens of the world. In the United States, the avant-garde cinema of Kenneth Anger, Gregory Markopoulos, Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, and Ron Rice was making its own waves. So was John Casavettes’ Shadows; Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie’s Pull My Daisy; Shirley Clarke’s The Connection; Guns of the Trees, the film I made with Adolfas Mekas; and Bert Stern’s Jazz on a Summer Day and Cry of Jazz.

Something had to be done... On September 28th, 1960, some 23 independent filmmakers, including myself, met in New York and decided to create a self-help organization which became known as the New American Cinema Group. The Group held monthly informal meetings and discussed dreams and problems of independently working filmmakers. Several small committees were created in order to explore the financing, promotion, and distribution of our films. My own assignment, besides that of serving as the President of the Board — was to investigate new methods of distribution.

After looking into the existing film distribution organizations, and seeing how few of them were interested in our work, I came to the conclusion that the only thing to do was to create our own cooperative film distribution center, run by ourselves. When Cinema 16, at that time the most advanced avant-garde/independent film distribution organization, rejected Stan Brakhage’s film Anticipation of the Night — an eye-opener and the beginning of a totally new, subjective cinema — this was the signal that something had to be done.

I slept under my editing table. On January 7th, 1962, I invited some 20 avant-garde/independent filmmakers to my Manhattan loft to discuss the creation of our own distribution center. Stan Vanderbeek, Ron Rice, Rudy Burckhardt, Jack Smith, Lloyd Williams, Robert Breer, David Brooks, Ken Jacobs, Gregory Markopoulos, Ray Wisniweski, Doc Humes, and Robert Downey, to mention a few, were among those present.

The Film-Makers’ Cooperative came into being. Announcements were sent to across the United States and abroad. My loft became the Co-op’s temporary home (if one can call five years time temporary!) I slept under my editing table. The rest of the place was taken over by filmmakers, who were almost always there, screening their films to each other and friends. It was a very exciting period, everybody was there, from Salvador Dali to Allen Ginsberg, to Andy Warhol to Jack Smith to Barbara Rubin — everybody!

UNSEEN CLASSICS

„As part of its 60th Anniversary Celebration, The New American Cinema Group, Inc/The Film-Makers’ Cooperative presents “Unseen Classics,” a dazzling selection of films representing the diversity of the Cooperative and the breadth of its artists’ personal vision.“

UNSEEN CLASSICS

7. 7. / 16:30
KINO ZELINA + VIDEO ON DEMAND

SONG OF CENTRAL PARK

Jonas Mekas, 1966, 4.5 min

GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN

Marie Menken, 1957, 5 min

REMEMBRANCE: A PORTRAIT STUDY

Edward Owens, 1967, 6 min

PEYOTE QUEEN

Storm DeHirsch, 1965, 9 min

BRIDGES-GO-ROUND

Shirley Clarke, 1958, 7.5 min

GO GO GO

Marie Menken, 1964, 11.5 min

HOT DOGS AT THE MET

Ken Jacobs, 2009, 10 min

AVIARY

Rudy Burckhardt, 1955, 5 min

NYC

MM Serra, 1986, 2 min

AT LAND

Maya Deren, 1944, 14 min

Q&A

7. 7. / 16:30
KINO ZELINA + LIVE STREAM

Q&A SPECIAL GUEST

Mrs. Mary Magdaline Serra, Executive Director of Filmmakers' Coop.

MODERATORS

dr. Nikica Gilić, filmologist
Zorko Sirotić, filmmaker