Subversive Film

Subversive Film will be hosting their 18th Subversive Festival May 19-31 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia. The theme for this year’s festival is “Age of Conflict: Escalating Wars, Global Migrations,” which combines political theory with the art of film and boldly puts key themes of contemporary reality under the magnifying glass. Divided into a film and theoretical part, the Subversive Festival begins at the Zagreb Kinoteka cinema on Monday, May 19th with a new edition of the Subversive Film Festival, which will once again bring together authors who resist the economization and dehumanization of film art, choosing critical reflection and the spirit of experimentation instead of false neutrality and conventional forms. The films will compete for the Wild Dreamer “Dragan Rubeša” awards in the categories of best documentary and best feature film. This year’s selection features forty feature, documentary and hybrid films, including the most prominent art house titles that have marked the current film year and have been screened or awarded at the world’s most important film festivals. The rich program features new films by renowned authors such as Radu Jude, Želimir Žilnik, Joshua Oppenheimer, Mike Leigh, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Ira Sachs, Alain Guiraudie and Matthew Rankin.