Kastav Film Festival

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Kastav Film Festival is an international film festival founded in 2009. Since then, the festival is held every June in Kastav, Croatia.

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The festival shows all of the submitted films and has no jury. [1]

Manifest

To read about KFF manifest follow this link

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References

  1. Petrak, Andrej (16 June 2011). "Kastav Film Festival počinje u petak u Gradskoj loži i na Fortici" (in Croatian). Novi list . Retrieved 10 May 2012.