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Everybody loves a good soap, Croatians no exception. There was a craze for Spanish soaps some time ago, but recently we’ve gone east for that. Turskih soaps are the thing nowadays. So, a Turkish horror movie is no more of a surprise than a romantic horror movie. The romance explains the title: Thou Gilds’t the […]
Read More Thou Gild’st the Even at Fantastic ZagrebCroatia is rich in a lot of things. Today waterfalls are on my mind. I spent Sunday at Skradinski buk, the lowest of three sets of waterfalls formed along the uniquely beautiful Krka river, in Dalmatia. Consisting of 17 waterfalls whose wealth and variety of geomorphological forms along with lushful vegetation, Skradinski buk is famed […]
Read More The magical river Krka: Skradinski bukToday is opening night for the only regional film festival dealing in the fantastic – Fantastic Zagreb. I have known about it since its first year – year 0 as the Festival dubs it – but have very bad luck visiting it. I always seem to be at the seaside when it’s on. Today is […]
Read More The Babadook at Fantastic ZagrebThis year marked a special anniversary for me: it’s been ten years since my first SFeraKon! And o, boy, that first one! I did not even get a chance to get a shoe in before Vlatko Juric-Kokic, then president of SFera, came up to me and asked: “Did you happen to come in your Dad’s […]
Read More My first SFeraKonI work for a publishing house that is just launching the Croatian translation of The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer. A colleague who works with me and is not a voracious reader, despite working where she does, was delighted with the texts we were preparing for the press and is very keen to […]
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