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Zagreb Film Festival
19 - 25 October 2008

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ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL
SC - Savska 25
10000 Zagreb
Croatia

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385 1 48 29 477
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385 1 45 93 691

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07.10.2008
My Marlon and Brando

As a part of the main program on 6th ZFF take a look at the feature film 'My Marlon and Brando' by the Turkish director Huseyin Karabey, an incredible true story about the love between a Turkish actress Ayça Damgaci and the Kurdish actor Hama Ali Kahn. The two of them meet and fall in love while making a movie in Turkey.

After the shooting of the film Ayça returns to Istanbul, while Hama goes back to Süleymaniye in northern Iraq. While US troops are preparing to invade Iraq, the couple exchanges passionate video messages and letters. After phone lines went dead, Ayça decided to go on a journey to find her 'Marlon and Brando' in the heart of the conflict, northern Iraq.

Ayça and Hama are playing themselves in a movie made according to their own life story, and the movie won the “Heart of Sarajevo” 2008. Award for best actress, while director Huseyin Karabey won the “Best new feature film director” award on the Tribeca film festival. This was the first feature film for Karabey, otherwise a documentary director, talked to Indiewire just before the New York premiere, and you can read the interview ovdje.
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BEST OF ZFF6.

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Third video chronicles

22.10.2008

Second video chronicles

19.10.2008

First video chronicles

ZFF CLOSING

PRESS CONFERENCE - FRIDAY

ZFF sixth day FRIDAY

ZFF - fifth day - THURSDAY

PRESS CONFERENCE - THUESDAY

ZFF - fourth day - WEDNESDAY

PRESS CONFERENCE - WEDNESDAY

ZFF - third day - TUESDAY

PRESS CONFERENCE - TUESDAY

ZFF - Second day - MONDAY

PRESS CONFERENCE - MONDAY

ZFF - First day SUNDAY, 19.10.2008.

Preparations for the festival

Bib in the city

Press conference ZFF 13.10.

Anna Magnani - exibition opening