Subtitled T-days: 'The High Sun' & 'Life Is a Trumpet'
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 July 19th (Tuesday) at 8:30 pm our program 'Subtitled T-days' will present 'The High Sun' (orig. Croatian title: 'Zvizdan') and on July 21st (Thursday) at 7 pm a 'Life Is a Trumpet' (Croatian title: 'Život je truba') .
'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.
'Life Is a Trumpet', a third feature directed by Antonio Nuić, follows a story of a loose jazz musician as the groom, a butcher as his father, and two families of different background whose members are not as different as one might expect. Cineuropa's critic Vladan Petković describes the filma as "a nice film for nice people, quality Christmas family fare that will leave audiences in a good mood without insulting their intelligence".