Film Celebration of Women's Day - News | Art-kino Croatia

This year's Womenial Days programme brings three splendid titles, the award-winning, intimate and deeply touching French drama Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma, an American comedy-drama concerning exploitation of women on the verge of political correctness Support the Girls by Andrew Bujalski, and a comedy about a determined dairy farmer who scratches beneath the surface of Icelandic rural communities The County by Grímur Hákonarson. 

The International Women's Day is approaching, and with it the traditional Womenial Days - a cinematic event by Cinemas Network that brings new and award-winning films about strong women and their challenges in the society they live in to art cinemas across Croatia, including Art-kino. The sixth edition of Womenial Days will be held from 5 to 9 March 2020.

For fans of historical films and highly stylized costume dramas, there is the latest, award-winning film by renowned French director Céline Sciamma - Portrait of a Lady on Fire, an intimate and deeply moving work with an impressive film photography. Through the story of the forbidden love between the painter and her model, the director writes (unknown) history of the women’s representation in painting and questions their position as a passive object. The film won the Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as Queer Palm, making Sciamma the first woman to receive the award.

Support the Girls, a new film by American godfather of mumblecore Andrew Bujalski, is a comedy ‘on the verge of crying’ about the exploitation of women at a bar similar to those in American fast food chains whose main features are scarcely dressed waitresses serving their (mostly) male guests. The film is an insightful portrayal of women in men’s world on the verge of political correctness, and a compassionate ode to the modern American working class and unknown female heroes vying for their place in society.

The County, a new film by Icelandic director and author of the successful Rams Grímur Hákonarson, tells a very frank and humorous drama about a woman who shakes up her rural community while rebelling against corrupt system of the local dairy industry.  The director tells a dramatic story of Inge, farm owner up to her neck in debt with a lot of humour, which is why the film was praised by critics and audience in Toronto, and it became yet another great independent title that makes Icelandic recent cinematography one of the most interesting in the world.

Tickets can be booked via email (ulaznice@art-kino.org) and purchased at the Art-kino box office every day from 16:00 to 20:30 or online (www.ulaznice.hr).