Rab film festival

Client

Rab Film Festival

Creative Team

Izvorka Jurić (creative and art direction)

Igor Poturić (copywriting)

Jurica Kos (design, animation, case photography)

Silvia Jonjić and Izvorka Jurić (award design)

Natalija Najjar (production manager)

Rab Film Festival (festival photography)

RAFF (Rab Film Festival) is a festival of Investigative Fiction and Documentary films, conceived as a new platform for filmmakers, artists, and journalists with the need to address topics of public interest. It is a manifestation that is taking over the festival niche, which is not yet sufficiently recognized, and thus becomes the first and only festival of its kind in the wider region. RAFF Festival Director is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Robert Tomic Zuber.

The focus of the RAFF festival is on intriguing titles that carry elements of exploration of current global and local issues and phenomena.

The basis of the festival’s identity is the filmstrip as a document, record, and basis of traditional values that suggest true investigative journalism. The RAFF filmstrip marks and highlights what is important to pay attention to. RAFF typography was designed and implemented as a film perforation.

Identity is designed modularly, where RAFF filmstrip marks material elements, information, photos, or environmental elements. Other elements of identity also follow the distinctive iconography of the film. The basis of identity is black and white, and the primary tone scale is based on blue and orange which are related to the island of Rab’s identity and film colors.

Some of the stories from Rab Postcards:

Royal skinny-dipping – The island of Rab welcomed celebrities as far back as almost a hundred years ago: in 1936 the British King Edward VIII and the love of his life, Wallis Simpson, paid an official visit to Rab, which, according to contemporary records, ended in skinny-dipping in the Kandarola Bay. The investigative film was not as developed then as it is today, so, unfortunately, we cannot show you the scenes of the royal bathing in the sea.

Historical film location – The natural beauties of Rab are ideal to be captured on camera – a fact already well-known in the 1920s. It was on Rab that the celebrated German director F. W. Murnau, one of the main representatives of expressionism in film, made his 1923 film Die Finanzen des Grossherzogs (Finances of the Grand Duke), which helped this idyllic Adriatic island to go down in film history.

Focusing on De Dominis – Who knows what the history of film would be like without the many discoveries of natural sciences… And one of the scientists who made a great contribution to that field – the scientist and philosopher Marco Antonio de Dominis – was born on Rab. His seventeenth-century theoretical works on the nature of eyesight and light and optical lenses have found their way into many contemporary devices, film equipment included.

The RAFF FRAME award is designed in such a manner that the basic elements which carry the information are film slides, placed in a space made from RAFF tapes. The analogous process of photograph-making was chosen as the basis of the concept of the award, representing a return to traditional values that advocate real investigative journalism. The information about the author, the name of the movie, and still from the movie were directly transferred to the slide film.