The International Sound & Film Music Festival in Samobor

The International Sound & Film Music Festival (ISFMF), one of the three largest and most important film music festivals in the world, as well as the only one dedicated to film sound, has many reasons to celebrate this year.

The jubilee anniversary is thus celebrated twice this year! The first time was at a unique and spectacular event in Pula, in the 2,000-year-old Arena, the largest completely preserved amphitheater from the Roman Empire, in front of an audience of as many as 3,500 people. The Pula Arena thus served as a unique stage for Ridley Scott's film masterpiece Gladiator and the awarding of the Crystal Pine Lifetime Achievement Award to one of the greatest sound designers of all time, Scott Millan, winner of four Oscars, one of which he received for Gladiator.

The second part of the festival's anniversary is celebrated from October 7 to 9, from Friday to Sunday, in the place where it all began - Samobor.

The picturesque town, the most beautiful pearl of continental Croatia, will thus host the festival and its top program and guests.

Even two Oscar winners grace the guest list: composer and director Stephen Warbeck (who won an Oscar for music in the film Shakespeare in Love) and superb character actor Ciarán Hinds (nominated for an Oscar this year for his role in Belfast, also starred in films such as Munich, Harry Potter, There Will Be Blood, Road to Perdition, Justice League, TV show The Terror...). In addition to them, one of the most famous and best French pianists in general, Jean-Michel Bernard, will perform a concert with film music and, especially, the music of our greatest composer Alfi Kabiljo, who will be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award. The musical part of the program will be joined by artistic director and composer Ozren K. Glaser, singer-songwriter Elis Lovrić and others.

The presenters of the two festive evenings will be Elis Lovrić herself, as well as Jana Haluza, who is also one of the most famous music presenters in Croatia.

Considering that different arts often go hand in hand, the ISFMF will also present the symbiosis of music and painting - through the vision of colors on the canvas of the painter Žana Bajić, and with the musical performance of the singer Nera Stipičević, known under the stage name FreeDA Nera Immortelle, and Ozren K. Glaser.

It is certainly necessary to emphasize that this anniversary also celebrates the long-term and constructive friendship between the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of France, and what better way to mark that - than by celebrating art.

MORE ABOUT ISFMF

Born from the small family circle of today's artistic director, Ozren K. Glaser, producers Tena Glaser and Željko Glaser, later strengthened by the arrival of executive director Marijana Knezoci, the ISFMF grew year by year, and this year, in 2022, it will celebrate ten years of its existence.

The decade of the ISFMF was marked by some of the biggest and most awarded names of the film and music showbusiness who contributed to the festival in the form of masterclasses, concerts, joining the Artistic Board and - friendships that last to this day. And truly, no event has ever brought more Oscar winners to Croatia than the ISFMF has achieved over the past ten years.