The Motovun Film Festival, an annual film festival established in 1999, opened on Saturday evening in the picturesque Istrian town of Motovun, despite the rain.
The opening ceremony, which was also attended by Croatian President
Ivo Josipovic, started with the casual improvisation of the song "Singing in the rain".Motovun Film Festival is entirely dedicated to films made in small cinematographies and independent productions. 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 136 titles from 44 countries, 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. This year's partner country is Turkey. 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. The festival also gained in status. From what was once a backpacker's film festival, it is today widely recognised as being the most important film festival held on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, along with the Sarajevo Film Festival. The main award at the festival is called Propeler Motovuna (English: The Propeller of Motovun), inspired by the prominent wind turbines located near
Motovun.
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