Subtitled T-days: 'As I Open My Eyes' & 'The High Sun'
During the summer, every Tuesday and Thursday screenings at Cinema Europa's main hall will have English subtitles next to the Croatian. This is a chance for our growing international audience in the unique setting of Zagreb's 90-year-old cinema in Varšavska 3 to see our non-English-speaking regular releases on the big screen.
On August 23rd (Tuesday) at 8:00 pm our program 'Subtitled T-days' will present 'As I Open My Eyes' (original title: 'À peine j'ouvre les yeux'; Croatian title: 'Kad otvorim oči') and on August 25th (Thursday) at 7:00 pm 'The High Sun' (original Croatian title: 'Zvizdan').
'As I Open My Eyes', "the best fictional film yet about the Arab Spring" (Indiewire), is the first feature from director Leyla Bouzid. The film follows an up-and-coming underground band as they are pulled in all directions by creative energy, authoritarian opression, and rebellion on the eve of the Jasmine Revolution.
Dalibor Matanić's 'The High Sun' premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival (as the first Croatian feature film to be chosen since the independence of Croatia) winning the Jury Prize. The film shines a light on three love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred. It is a film about the fragility – and intensity – of forbidden love. "Matanic’s strongest film to date" (Variety) has been selected as the Croatian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards.