Program
Schedule
The Month of Our Film: The Happy Child
The Happy Child is a music documentary by Igor Mirković about the emergence and development of the new wave movement in former Yugoslavia during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is also a nostalgic, partly autobiographical journey through the director’s coming-of-age years, which were shaped by the music and cultural changes of that era.
Jim Jarmusch Retrospective: Dead Man
William Blake (Johnny Depp), an accountant from Cleveland, travels to the West Coast of the United States, to the edge of civilization where the railroad ends and the town of Machine begins. He is supposed to start a job there. However, his endeavor proves futile when he learns from Mr. Dickinson (Robert Mitchum), the owner of Dickinson's Metal Works, that the position has already been filled. Later that day, Blake kills Dickinson’s son in self-defense. Badly wounded, he escapes into the wilderness. There, he is found by Nobody (Gary Farmer), a Native American who sees Blake as the reincarnation of the English poet William Blake. Nobody helps Blake flee from bounty hunters and hopes to get him to the northwestern coast, from where Blake can be sent back to the land of spirits.
The Month of Our Film: The Priest's Children
To help increase the birth rate of a small town on a Dalmatian island, the young priest Don Fabijan starts to pierce condoms before they are sold.
Jim Jarmusch Retrospective: Coffee and Cigarettes
The film consists of eleven separate vignettes. In each, celebrities play semi-fictionalized versions of themselves who meet in a café or diner over coffee, tea, and cigarettes. Beyond the topic currently occupying their conversation, they often speak directly about coffee and cigarettes themselves. They most commonly discuss how coffee and cigarettes—that is, caffeine and nicotine—are unhealthy, especially when they constitute the entirety of one's lunch. Other recurring themes include the Lee family, cousins, celebrity worship, the connection between medical and musical careers, and Nikola Tesla’s belief that the Earth conducts acoustic resonance. In all cases, gathering for coffee—or tea—and smoking acts as a bridge for overcoming disagreements or making uncomfortable situations less awkward.
Kino Zona Zadar
The year-round cinema “Kino Zona” is a project of Alliance of Independent Culture Centre created in partnership with the City of Zadar, Croatian Audiovisual Center, Zadar Concert Office and Zadar Puppet Theatre.
The project aims to popularize international and domestic independent film production displaying quality recent feature films.
About us
What we do
In addition to film screenings, we organize guest appearances by directors, actors and producers, lectures and round tables, all for the purpose of development of the audience, critical thinking and enrichment year-round cultural offerings of the city of Zadar.
