12-05-2008.
Visit www.kinolika.com:-)
Kino Lika will be screened at Marche du film on Cannes film festival, on Sunday, May 18th at 11:45am, Palais C.
03-04-2008.
Dalibor Matanić will held a workshop "Film&commercials" on Skopje film festival.
04-02-2008.
KINO LIKA will be screened on Berlinale Film Market on Monday, February 11th at 4:15 p.m.
in Marriott 3.
31-01-2008.
FINE DEAD GIRLS on Amazon.com!
Finally. No you can buy us all over the world on easiest way. April 22nd is release date of DVD which is described as:
"A cleverly structured storyline involving the nosy, yet personally guarded tenants in an apartment building in Zagreb.
Two university students move in and unknowingly act as the catalyst that peels away layers of secrecy and mistrust.
A mother's fixation on her son, and his insecurity and lust, drive this fast-paced and well-directed feature.
Matanic evokes vivid echoes of the imapact of Croatia's recent economic and social upheaval, and adds an
unusual twist to a traditional narrative."
Price at the moment: 22.49$:-)
31-12-2007.
Happy hedonistical 2008, X-mass, Bajram and every minute that you celebrate, I hope...
In New year we are releasing Kino Lika, I can't wait that you see the film. Thanks for all support.
Immoral kisses to everybody:-)
29-11-2007.
Dalibor Matanic will attend European Film Academy Awards Ceremony in Berlin, on December 1st.
He's very sorry that he will not be on his mother Ana's birthday that day. He promises here that he will make it up to her:-)
11-11-2007.
Dalibor Matanic is nominated for Best directing Award at Croatian association of dramatic artists Awards
for I LOVE YOU. Award ceremony is on November 24th. Thanks, actors:-)
FINE DEAD GIRLS will be screened on 16th Annual AT&T St. Louis International Film Festival, November 08-18.
03-11-2007.
FINE DEAD GIRLS will be screened in selection Beyond boundaries - The Emergence of Croatian Cinema,
November 3. & 5. in Lincoln Center, New York.
11-10-2007.
I LOVE YOU in London!
Closer Croatia Croatian film days in London, October 11th-14th
I LOVE YOU will be screened on Sathurday 13th in Riverside Studios at 9:05pm.
Dalibor Matanić will be on screening.
Cheers Mate:-)
13-09-2007.
I LOVE YOU will be screened at Croatian film festival in New York, September 13-16th in Museum of Moving Images
organised by The Doors Art Foundation. Dalibor Matanić as an old NYC lover, will be on screening:-)
07-08-2007
Dalibor Matanic will be a member of Prix UIP European Film Academy Jury on 13th Sarajevo film festival.
10-05-2007
On May 12th, we will shoot the first shot of new, fifth feature KINO LIKA. The shooting will last till June 22nd.
Wish us luck:-)
02-04-2007
I LOVE YOU is a winner of prestigious PRIX CIRCOM television award in Strasbourg.
Here is a letter from jury:
"A contemporary feature length drama in which the main character, Kreso, is diagnosed as HIV positive.
Kreso and his girlfriend enjoy all the trappings of modern life until the terrible day of the diagnosis that brings
his world to a stop. He was infected by a blood transfusion given after a car accident. The world turns against him and he sets himself
against the world as he goes on a rampage to spread his disease. Eventually, he finds reconciliation through friendship with a barmaid.
The ending gives an unexpected twist and the story goes full circle as Kreso himself is knocked down by a car. Although the film follows
a linear structure to chart his emotional destruction following the diagnosis, the reflective script brings the viewer beyond the story
of the main character and holds a mirror up to the fall-out of modern living and to ask ourselves where this ‘ipod generation’ will stop.
It has a highly contemporary, young feel with a simple and uncluttered direction style. Design is extremely stylish and very effective.
The attention to detail is truly amazing. A satire on contemporary life!"
This is a nice remark on mini European tour of the film including festivals in Sofia, Skopje and Prague.
18-01-2007
American distribution of FINE DEAD GIRLS started with screening in New York's MoMa.
Powered by Global Film Initiative.
04-01-2007.
Review of I LOVE U was also released in NEW YORK POST:
'LOVE' STUD CONQUERS ALL
By V.A. MUSETTO
January 3, 2007 -- The innovative Two Boots Pioneer Theater kicks off 2007 with a shocking drama from Croatia, "I Love You."
It is the tragic story of Kreso (Kresimir Mikic), a young man who kills somebody with his car but gets off lightly thanks to his well-connected father.
But Daddy can't help him with one of the side effects of the accident: A blood transfusion for an injury received in the incident renders Kreso HIV-positive.
You would think that the news would cut down Kreso's sex life; but he's a stud, and he isn't about to let the threat of AIDS turn him off women,
even if he has to pay them. (His girlfriend split as soon as she learned of Kreso's fate.)
"I Love You" watches as the young man plunges deeper and deeper into a dark world of debauchery and self-destruction.
The director, 30-year-old Dalibor Matanic, allows himself a few weepy moments, but mostly the script stays on target, accompanied by strong acting
and lensing. Matanic has attracted attention on the festival circuit, including New Directors/New Films in New York.
"I Love You" should increase his appeal.
03-01-2007.
NEW YORK TIMES released a great review of I LOVE U!
Today film opens in Two Boots Pioneer in New York and this is review originally:
In Croatia, an Empty Life in Full View
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: January 3, 2007
“I Love You,” a bleak drama from the Croatian writer and director Dalibor Matanic, is an unusually perceptive scrutiny of absence and emptiness.
Set in the filmmaker’s hometown, Zagreb, the movie follows a young advertising hotshot named Kreso (Kresimir Mikic), whose life is a thoughtless
round of drinking, drugs and sex. When he gets into trouble, his lawyer father bails him out; when he is lonely, his gym buddies are preferable
to the live-in girlfriend he barely speaks to. Then he learns he is H.I.V.-positive.
Countering an admittedly trite premise — personal growth through unexpected adversity — with an atmosphere of haunting sterility,
Mr. Matanic and his cinematographer, Branko Linta, wash the screen in the palest of grays, infused with mutating pastels. As Kreso’s life is
stripped away (“The company has to be clean, both inside and out,” says his unrepentant boss as he shows him the door), Kreso’s surroundings
appear increasingly insubstantial and his connections with others more raw and violent. It is a furiously unsympathetic role, and
Mr. Mikic — a lean Adrien Brody look-alike — tackles it with compelling urgency.
Opening and closing beneath the clinical glare of hospital lights, “I Love You” conjures a disaffected post-Communist life of casual hedonism
and emotional bankruptcy. In its simple, unforced way, the movie is as much about the loss of a generation as the redemption of an individual.
I LOVE YOU (VOLIM TE)
Opens today in Manhattan.
Written (in Croatian, with English subtitles) and directed by Dalibor Matanic; director of photography, Branko Linta; edited by Tomislav Pavlic;
music by Jura Ferina and Pavle Miholjevic; produced by Mario Oreskovic; released by the Doors Art Foundation.
At the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, 155 East Third Street, at Avenue A, East Village. Running time: 83 minutes. This film is not rated.
WITH: Kresimir Mikic (Kreso), Ivana Roscic (Waitress), Ivana Krizmanic (Ana), Zrinka Cvitesic (Squash Girl), Natasa Janjic (Natasa)
and Bojan Navojec (Zec).
31-12-2006.
Thank you all for such a support in ingenious 2006.
I LOVE U, 100 MINUTES OF GLORY, FINE DEAD GIRLS and THE CASHIER WANTS TO GO TO THE SEASIDE are living this success
because of you. With this support is much easier to go into most-working 2007. Enjoy & we love u:-)
18-12-2006.
I LOVE U won Audience Award on International Silk Road film festival in Bursa, Turkey.
14-12-2006.
New York premiere of I LOVE U in Two Boots Theatre, organised by The Doors Art Foundation.
22-11-2006.
Kreso Mikic is nominated for Croatian association of dramatic artists award for I LOVE U.
12-11-2006.
Tonight in primetime of Croatian television: TV premiere of HUNDRED MINUTES OF GLORY.
10-11-2006.
I LOVE U won the Cinema tout Ecran young jury award on Cinema tout Ecran festival in Geneve.
This is first international award for I LOVE U, and second time that young jury award has been won,
previously FINE DEAD GIRLS were awarded.
13-10-2006.
I LOVE U entered competition of International TV festival in Bar.
Dalibor Matanic will be member of the Prix Europa SPOT jury in Berlin for this year's best 1-minute films about Europe.
12-10-2006.
I LOVE U is selected for Days of Croatian film in Berlin during December.
I LOVE U will be presented on AGORA, market of Thessaloniki film festival.
05-10-2006.
I LOVE U is selected for 1st edition of International Silk Road film festival, December 13-17th in
Bursa, Turkey.
03-10-2006.
I LOVE U is selected for competition of 12th Cinema Tout Ecran film festival in Geneve, October 30 -
November 5th. On this festival some previous films were awarded (FINE DEAD GIRLS and SUSA)
so it will be nice to come back to Geneve.
02-10.2006.
FINE DEAD GIRLS are selected for "The other Balkan" program of International film festival in Bratislava,
December 1.-9th.
23-09-2006.
The Doors Art Foundation and selector, Croatian leading film critic Jurica Pavicic selected I LOVE U
for selection of best Croatian films which will be shown in New York.
14-09-2006.
Very nice review of I LOVE U by Jure Kukoč in cultural magazine "Vijenac".
27-08-2006.
I LOVE YOU is selected for most prestigious European TV film festival PRIX EUROPA 2006.
Film will be in competition of 32 best european TV films on October 14-21nd in Berlin.
I LOVE YOU will be screened on festival of Ivo Gregurevic in Orasje.
18-08-2006.
I LOVE YOU in Sarajevo:
Regional OFF program, Sathurday, 26th, 13:30, Festival Center, Dom armije FBIH.
23-07-2006.
Finally. On 53rd Pula film festival, Branko Linta received Golden Arena for best photography and
KODAK award for best photography. Tomislav Pavlic received Golden Arena for best editing.
Three awards for I LOVE YOU. If we include filmski.net award for best Croatian actor for Kreso Mikic, there are
four awards for I LOVE YOU so far...
15-07-2006.
FINE DEAD GIRLS will be distributed in USA, in cinemas and on DVD's! Details soon.
I LOVE YOU will be screened on National film festival in Pula on Wednesday, July, 19th at 21:30,
and on Motovun film festival on Thursday, July, 27th at 18:00.
Film be also shown on Sarajevo film festival August 18-27th in Regional OFF program.
26-06-2006.
I LOVE YOU will be shown in main competition on National film festival in Pula, July 15-22nd.
06-06-2006.
Council of Pula film festival guided by artistic director Zlatko Vidackovic have sent a request for transfer of I LOVE YOU on 35mm
because showing in main competition on national Pula film festival and other international film festivals.
19-05-2006
Dalibor Matanić will be on Cannes film festival May 20-28th.
12-05-2006.
FINE DEAD GIRLS will be presented in Croatian cinema days program in Oldenburg, Germany.
10-04-2006.
Official preproduction days started for KINO LIKA. The shooting is expected for september 2006.
26-03-2006.
Nenad Polimac has written a beautiful text in Jutarnji list about film locations. He mentioned that some of the locations
should be considered as culutural property as shop in THE CASHIER WANTS TO GO TO THE SEASIDE and house in FINE DEAD GIRLS
02-03-2006.
Krešo Mikić won the people's choice award for best Croatian actor on filmski.net for I LOVE YOU.
23-01-2006.
Releasing of DVD of FINE DEAD GIRLS for Germany is expected on beginning of february.
28-12-2005.
FINE DEAD GIRLS will be screened on January, 5th in New York, in Two Boots Pioneer Theater (155 East 3rd Street).
Organised by The Doors Art Foundation.
Film Critic Zlatko Vidackovic of Vjesnik pointed out that 100 MINUTES OF GLORY is one of two best Croatian films of a year.
Great response to the new film I LOVE YOU! Great critics, so many calls, thank you everybody!
We're startintg to enter film festivals with this filmical slice of actual, nowdays Croatia and our generation...
...and yes, redesign and refreshing of www.dalibormatanic.com is so so so close to our eyes and mind...
Did I say the same thing few months ago?
30-11-2005.
KINO LIKA is winner of the CINELINK AWARD 2005.
The international jury consisting of producers Philippe Bober, Hashemian Behrooz and Cedomir Kolar,
together with the Hubert Bals Fund representative Bianca Taal commented:
"KINO LIKA is a daring, original story and it has clear but never heavy metaphor of European future."
KINO LIKA is in phase of closing the financial construction for the shooting planned summer 2006.
03-11-2005.
Soon. Promise, very soon, new elements of this site will appear in front of your eyes.
There are many new things going on, like finishing of I LOVE YOU, dvd-isation of HUNDRED MINUTES OF GLORY,
New York appearence of FINE DEAD GIRLS and preparing of KINO LIKA.
Many, many things on refreshened site...
29-10-2004.
FINE DEAD GIRLS will be presented in selection of best balkan films, Balkan boom
in Bukarest from 12. till 14. November 2004.
22-10-2004.
DALIBOR MATANIĆ will be member of the jury at 6th International student film festival
in Belgrade.
15-10-2004.
FINE DEAD GIRLS will be shown at Kopenhagen gay and lesbian film festival
from 16th till 21st October 2004.
07-10-2004.
FINE DEAD GIRLS will be shown in London on Closer Croatia film festival
at Riverside studios.
26-09-2004.
FINE DEAD GIRLS were shown on Croatian television with rekord audience index,
bigger than nr.1 tv-show: News.
25-09-2004.
SUŠA was shown in selection of best films from western Balkans at NORDISK PANORAMA in Reykjavik.
24-07-2004.
On 51st Pula film festival 100 MINUTES OF GLORY is awarded with best supporting actor award -
Vili Matula for the role of Rapacki and Ana Savić Gecan for costumes.
28-06-2004
100 MINUTES OF GLORY will open 51st Pula film festival on Friday 16th 2004.
Next week a new website for 100 MINUTES OF GLORY starts working at: www.htnet.hr/100minutaslave.
SUSA received a invitation to the film festival on Iceland.
05-04-2004
German premiere of FINE DEAD GIRLS will be held on July, 10th in Munich,
where film starts with German distribution as SCHONE TOTE MADCHEN in more than 400 cinemas.
