Green Eye Festival

Green Eye Festival
The IV^th Green Eye Festival will be held from October 26 to October 27, 2023, in the Arsen House of Art in Šibenik

This year's edition of the festival is dedicated to climate change and the influence of film and media culture in educating the public about the importance of protecting nature and the environment, and has been organised by the Krka National Park.

During the two days of the festival, you will be able to watch current documentaries about the protection of biodiversity, ecosystems, the future of world energy, and ecological ways of growing food.

Interesting panel discussions await you as part of the program.

We look forward to seeing you!

Program of the festival

26 Oct. 2023, Thursday (1^st day)

11:30  Arrival of guests, registration of panel participants, statements to the media

11:55  "Five to 12", the official opening of the festival. Introductory speech by the moderator Danko Družijanić, welcome speech by the organizer, director of the Krka National Park, Nella Slavica.

12:15  COMMON GROUND, 98 minutes

2023 Tribeca Film Festival Winner Human / Nature Award

Common Ground is a rousing and uplifting feature-length documentary that shows a pathway to transform our unhealthy and corrupt industrial agricultural food system into an ecological way of growing food that can restore our health, our communities, and our climate. The film chronicles the budding “Regenerative Agriculture” movement, a type of farming based on working with nature, instead of against it.

14:00/2pm Discussion after the film screening on the topic "Climate change - should we be worried?"

Participants in the discussion:

• Igor Kreitmeyer, Director of the Institute for the Protection of Nature of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development
• Anamarija Matak, Director of the Institute for Environmental Impact Assessment and Sustainable Waste Management of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development
• Željko Burić, mayor of Šibenik
• Draženka Stipaničev, Josip Juraj Strossmayer Institute for Water
• Nediljko Dujić, President of the Management Board of Croatian Forests

Moderator: Danko Družijanić

15:00/3pm  Musical program – Zorica Kondža

17:00  DEEP RISING, 93 minutes

2023 Sundance Film Festival, official selection

Deep rising is a tale of geopolitical, scientific and corporate intrigue: investigating the future of the world's energy crisis and how it is currently tied to the fate of the deep ocean floor, which is intricately tied to our survival.

Join us on an epic journey from the deepest depths of our ocean – the most uncharted and inaccessible place on our planet – to the future of green energy, and learn how the two are inextricably linked.

19:00  ALL THAT BREATHES, 94 minutes

2022 Cannes Film Festival Golden Eye Award Best Documentary

2022 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize in World Cinema Documentary Competition

2023 Oscars Academy Awards Nominee

In one of the world’s most populated cities, two brothers — Nadeem and Saud — devote their lives to the quixotic effort of protecting the black kite, a majestic bird of prey essential to the ecosystem of New Delhi that has been falling from the sky at alarming rates.

Amid environmental toxicity and social unrest, the ‘kite brothers’ spend day and night caring for the creatures in their makeshift avian basement hospital. Director Shaunak Sen (Cities of Sleep) explores the connection between the kites and the brothers who help them return to the skies, offering a mesmerizing chronicle of inter-species coexistence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoTlULspDyY

27 Oct. 2023, Friday (2^nd day)

10:30  Arrival of guests, registration of panel participants, statements to the media

11:00  Introductory speech by the moderator Danko Družijanić, welcome speech by the organiser, director of the Krka National Park, Nella Slavica

11:15  GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE, 103 minutes

2022 Berlinale winner

Geographies of solitude is an immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, guided by naturalist and environmentalist Zoe Lucas who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Shot on 16mm and created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, this feature-length experimental documentary is a playful and reverent collaboration with the natural world. Zoe leads us among wild horses, seals and bugs, through peaks, valleys, roots, sands, weathers, seasons and stars. The intangible is evoked with hidden sounds and vanishing light. Much like a field book, the film tracks its protagonist's labor to collect, clean and document marine litter that persistently washes up on the island shores.

13:00/1pm  Discussion after the film screening on the topic "The influence of film and media culture in education about the importance of protecting nature and the environment".

Participants in the discussion:

• Aljoša Duplić, Director of the Institute for Protection of the Environment and Nature
• Dunja Mazzocco Drvar, director of the nature protection program of WWF Adria
• Nella Slavica, Director of the Krka National Park
• Vinko Brešan, director
• Leon Lučev, actor
• Tomislav Krnić, cameraman

Moderator: Danko Družijanić

Musical program – Toma Cukrov and band

Closing of the festival