Grossmann Info

At today's Closing Ceremony we will reveal this year's award winners, but first there will be many film and wine adventures.

The final day of the 10th Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival is upon us, a day full of excitement and delights. The question of the day will be: who will receive the Vicious Cat?

But let's go nice and slow. Already before noon the Main Square will host the Subculture Fair, offering new and second-hand records, CDs, DVDs, books,comics, movie posters and unique artistic products. At the fair, guest of our Noisy Cat competition program, legendary Slovenian singer-songwriter Marko Brecelj will conduct a performance entitled Song-O-Mat.

The masking of the participants of the Zombie Quadrille will be accompanied by sweet sounds coming from our old friends, Hungarian group Yellow Spots Marching Deluxe.

Enchanted Cinema will work his magic for the last time, this time with fantastic animated adventure Miniscule: Valley of the Lost Ants, based upon popular French TV series, that will take kids and parents alike into the wacky world of insects. A bit older kids will experience excitement and thrills with Joe Dante's classic horror comedy Gremlins featuring famous evil little creatures rampaging through an American smalltown.

Alcatraz Cinema will show splendid short films from our Slak's Vicious Cat and Melies d'Argent competition programs, followed by Serbian music documentary Živan Makes a Punk Festival which is a mandatory viewing for all aspiring concert organizers. Noisy Cat competition program will continue with The Elderly Parasite or Who is Marko Brecelj, an extremely insightful, amusing and vivid documentary directed by Janez Burger. Screening will of course be attended by the film's protagonist Marko Brecelj.

Main Square will reach the pinnacle of funny activities at 18:00h with Zombie Zumba and Zombie Quadrille in which dancing couples in the prime of decomposition will make their way towards a Guinness world record.

At 19:00h it will be time for the 10th Grossmann Festival Closing Ceremony at the Culture House. The ceremony will be hosted by Jure Longyka, renowned radio journalist and two-time member of Grossmann's Noisy Cat jury.

After the Closing Ceremony, the Culture House Cinema will show a reprise of brilliant Hungarian dark comedy Heavenly Shift directed by Márk Bodzsár.

Hotel Stela terrace will at 20:00h be taken by Marko Brecelj who will perform a concert entitled Benefit Fantastic & Wine Marko Brecelj.

Open Air Cinema at the Main Square will show lavish gothic horror A Holy Place, a macabre adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's story Viy by our guest of honour Djordje Kadijević who will also be present at the screening.

Cinema »At the Vicious Hotel« will be showing films that were made in our film workshops. They will be followed by music documentary The Right Man for Capitalism, portrait of »Bosnian Psycho«, musician Damir Avdić. Screening will be attended by director Dušan Moravec.

Wind-Rattle Cinema will show the final episodes of series Prlekians Between Drava and Mura.

The festival will end with a fabulous final party at Club Oxygen where we will rock until the break of dawn. All hail the Vicious Cat!

More info on our film, wine and accompanying program can be found on our website www.grossmann.si/home/.

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