ZAGREB, 11 Aug (Hina) – The 19th Vukovar Film Festival is taking place from 27 to 30 August with 61 films to be screened across four categories. in that eastern Croatian city.

The festival will open with the Toronto Film Festival winner “The Life of Chuck”,  a 2024 American fantasy drama film written and directed by Mike Flanagan. It is based on the novella of the same name by Stephen King.

Among the films to be shown at the festival are “A Hero”by director Jafar Panahi, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes this year, and “I’m Still Here” by Walter Salles, this year’s Oscar winner for Best International Feature Film.

The festival’s finale is reserved for the domestic drama Good Kids, directed by Filip Peruzović and starring Filip Šovagović and Nina Violić. The film won four awards at the Pula Film Festival.

The Vukovar Film Festival, with Dragan Despot as Artistic Director and Darko Puharić as Director, is conceptually introducing two additional categories. Alongside the feature-length fiction and documentary film categories, there will now be categories for short fiction films and animated films.

Awards called the Golden Barge will be presented in all four categories, with the winners decided by a nine-member expert jury.