Italian director Enrico Maria Artale will personally present "El Paraíso" at the Croatian premiere tonight at the Bačvice Open-air Cinema, the film for which he had won the award for best screenplay, best female role, as well as the Youth Jury Award for best film at the Venice film festival.

It is a story about a complicated relationship between a mother and a son that is full of love, but at the same time suffocating and oppressive. They are very close and even work together as drug smugglers for a local dealer. When a young Colombian woman enters their lives with whom they must organize the next drug shipment, their everyday life will be seriously shaken.

In the FMFS cinema at Gripe Fortress, a double programme of Croatian films will be shown. The documentary "Ship" by Pula director Elvis Lenić is a touching tribute to all the families whose members were connected to the Uljanik shipyard through the generations. "The Seagull" by David Lušičić is a documentary essay that follows the reconstruction of the Yugoslav President Tito's ship, which served to promote peace between East and West, and through the testimony of its last officer.

Inspired by the director's five-year experience of living in an Islamic student dormitory, the film "Dormitory" by Nehir Tuna, showing at the Zlatna vrata cinematheque, thematizes the internal struggle of the protagonist who tries to meet the expectations of his family and longs to belong somewhere. The free of charge Portaula cinema hosts the Zagreb Animafest.