PROGRAM DESCRIPTION per Day & Location:
🎬 AUGUST 8, 2025 – OPENING NIGHT
📍 TRG REPUBLIKE HRVATSKE – Square of Republic of Croatia
🕗 8:30PM – Red Carpet Opens
🕘 9:00PM – Opening Ceremony
✨ With Šibenik Mayor Dr. Burić, CIFF Director Ella Mische & surprise speaker guests
🎥 9:30PM – Screening: "THE FRIEND"
Starring Bill Murray & Naomi Watts
🎤 Followed by Q&A with directors Scott McGhee & David Siegel
AUGUST 9, 2025
11:00AM - 4:00PM Short Film Corner @ 📍CIVITAS SACRA:
Short Films lineup : BLOCK 1
Stronger Then The Storm - Justin Lee Stanley (USA), Alone Alone Alone, on a Wide, Wide Sea- Anvita Gattani (USA), Roniti - Ivan Malekin (Croatia), Lonely - Bobby Bosko Grubic (Croatia), Marks of Majesty- Julia Costa, Stephanie Francis (USA), The Echo of the Night - Ruby Cavalié (France), A Shattering - Jan Jalenak, The Bread of Mother Tradition - Marko Plejić (Croatia), The Heart of Texas - Gregory JM Kasunich (USA),Dear Owner- Jonathan T Coleman (USA), Funcut - Mario Gaćina (Croatia), Rhythm Interrupted - Daria Karic, Unspoken - Damian Walsh, Igra -(Croatia) Leon Keglević Film Library - Dima Montanari (Italy)
📍 KUCA ARSEN - (Obala Hrvatske Mornarice 1)
🕔 5:00PM – HARFA Special documentary by Ella Mische w/ Q&A
Bonus screening : Student short “The Missing Teacher”
🕡 7:00PM – Industry Panel
🎙 “Demystifying Distribution International” w/ Tyler Dinapoli (Bleecker Street)
📍 KUCA ARSEN - (Obala Hrvatske Mornarice 1)
🕤 8:30PM – WISDOM OF HAPPINESS - Screening Q&A w/ director Barbara Miller
🕤 9:30PM📍Museum of City of Šibenik - exterior projection of:
Short Films Lineup : BLOCK 2
Donna’s Got It - Ivana Zoric (Australia/Croatia), With You Now -Jordan Imbrey Every Story is a Ghost Story- Isabela Bazoni (Canada, Italy, UK), Snowflakes Laurenz Prader (Austria/UK), Ploujet -Andrea Nordgren (USA), Blackout - Iva Gasperovic, Bartol Musura (Croatia)
📍 KUCA ARSEN - (Obala Hrvatske Mornarice 1)
🕗 10:00PM – TRUST IN LOVE - Screening & Q&A w/ director Mick Davis
🎞 AUGUST 10, 2025
FILMMAKER FOCUS
📍 KUCA ARSEN - (Obala Hrvatske Mornarice 1)
🕛 11:00AM - Panel “Actors On Acting”- with special guest Goran Navojec
🕛 12:00PM – THE ROOTS - screening
🕑 2:00PM – STOLEN DOUGH - Q&A w/ director Stephano Da Fre
🕖 6:00PM – Directors on Directing Panel - 🎤 Roundtable w/ all directors
🕖 7:00PM - “Behind the Lens” - a dive in behind the scenes working with notable actors and creative discussion with the Tatijana Shoan photographer & owner of the renowned AS IF Magazine.
🕘 8:00PM - “Promote to Success” discussion on modern promotion and what dictates success of content in the media - lead by Los Angeles Times’ Kevin Haulihan.
🕘 9:30PM – BEHIND THE LINES - Screening + Q&A
9:30PM STUDENT FILM CORNER
📍Museum of city of Sibenik stairs- Student short film line up:
“Sweet Bunch of Daisies” - Annette Murray (US), (Croatia), Ambivalence - Coltren Vornbrock (Canada), “City In Observation”- Audrey Whiteford-Woods (France), StarVation - Aleksandra Stošić (Slovenija), The Call - Marko Braovic (Serbia), The Pie Quest - Nicholas Gao (Hong Kong), Blackout - Iva Gašperoviċ & Bartul Muštra (Croatia), Greek Aprcots - Jan Kravetin - (Croatia/Slovenia).
AUGUST 11, 2025
📍CIVITAS SACRA
🕖 5:00PM "AN AMERICAN ABROAD" - followed by Q &A with the director Marcia Kimpton
📍FORTRESS BARONE:
🕘 9:30PM AWARDS CEREMONY
(awards followed by closing party at same location)