Motovun Film Festival is an annual film festival established in 1999 and held in Motovun, a small town in Istria, Croatia. Festival is entirely dedicated to films made in small cinematographies and independent productions. In everything, except for the ambition and the quality, Motovun wants to be a small festival showing small films, small in the warmest sense of the word. Festival program consists of around 70 titles from all over the world, from documentaries to feature films, from short to long films, from guerilla made films to co-productions. The only criteria in their selection is that they fit in the open-minded atmosphere of the festival. Every year during the festival a camp for visitors is organized on the foothills of Motovun, where anybody can put up their tent almost for free. The main award at the festival is called Propeler Motovuna (The Propeller of Motovun, inspired by the wind turbines located near Motovun). In 2008, the Motovun Maverick Award was introduced, given to notable filmmakers for lifetime achievement. Its first recipient was Ken Russell, an English film director.
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