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JUN 25-28
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JUN 25-28
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Since 2021, the Ponta Lopud Film Festival has brought together emerging filmmakers and industry professionals on Lopud Island for talks, workshops, and screenings.
Since 2021, the Ponta Lopud Film Festival has brought together emerging filmmakers and industry professionals on Lopud Island for talks, workshops, and screenings.
Set against the stunning backdrop of Lopud Island, the festival brings together celebrated masters such as Frances McDormand, Joel Coen, Sean Baker, Ruben Östlund, Pawel Pawlikowski, and Edward Norton with emerging directors, actors, and cinematographers who have shown exceptional promise.
Masterclasses and workshops provide the fellows with invaluable insights, feedback, and connections that can propel their careers and projects in film forward.
The festival also offers social and cultural experiences that go beyond the subject of film but continue the conversations. Expect gourmet culinary events, wine tastings, explorations of Lopud’s rich cultural heritage and lively parties.
These occasions not only contribute to an unforgettable experience but also create a relaxed atmosphere that is perfect for building relationships.
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FF 2026
JUN 25-28, 2026
Every June, Lopud becomes a meeting place for film, music, and creativity. Set within a unique Mediterranean setting, the festival brings together international filmmakers, artists, mentors, emerging talents, and audiences through screenings, conversations, masterclasses, the development of new film projects, and the presentation of regional authors.
The festival’s sixth edition, held from 25 to 28 June, also featured a special programme dedicated to the relationship between film and music, with a particular focus on the legacy of Ennio Morricone. Through films, conversations, and a closing concert dedicated to his music, the festival continued to create a space for artistic dialogue, collaboration, and inspiration beneath the open skies of Lopud Island.
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Festival Programme
Wednesday
24 Jun 2026
ENNIO (2021)
Rector’s Palace
5:15 PM
Ennio is a documentary portrait of one of the most important and beloved film composers of the 20 th century, Ennio Morricone. Through conversations with Morricone, archival materials, music, and testimonies from numerous directors, musicians, and collaborators, Giuseppe Tornatore explores the creative journey of the author of more than five hundred film scores. The film reveals both well-known and lesser-known aspects of Morricone’s work, from his long-standing collaboration with Tornatore to the musical ideas that shaped the history of cinema. The film was presented to the festival audience by composer Alessandro De Rosa.
Thursday
25 Jun 2026
BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE (2024)
Grand Hotel Park
9:00 PM
Bob Marley: One Love celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations with his message of love, peace, and unity. The film follows Bob Marley through the story of his confrontation with challenges, personal and social turmoil, and the creation of music that changed the world. Kingsley Ben-Adir stars in the title role, while Lashana Lynch portrays Rita Marley and James Norton plays Chris Blackwell. The film was directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, who personally presented it to the Ponta Lopud audience.
THURSDAY
25 Jun 2026
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (2017)
Grand Hotel Park
11:00 PM
To mark the 10 th anniversary of the production of Call Me by Your Name, the screening was presented by producer Peter Spears.
In the summer of 1983, in northern Italy, seventeen-year-old American Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet) spends his days at his family’s 17 th -century villa, idly transcribing music and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a twenty-four-year-old doctoral student, arrives for his annual summer internship to assist Elio’s father (Michael Stuhlbarg), a distinguished professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will change their lives forever.
Friday
26 Jun 2026
CLOSE (2022)
Grand Hotel Park
9:00 PM
Close, winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, is an emotional story of friendship and responsibility. The film follows Léo and Rémi, two thirteen-year-old boys whose intense and inseparable friendship suddenly comes to an end. Trying to understand what happened, Léo grows closer to Sophie, Rémi’s mother. Lukas Dhont creates a tender and deeply moving film about growing up, intimacy, loss, and the words that often remain unspoken. The film was presented to the festival audience by director Lukas Dhont.
FRIDAY
26 Jun 2026
CINEMA PARADISO (1988)
Grand Hotel Park
11:00 PM
Cinema Paradiso, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Grand Prix at Cannes, is one of cinema’s most beloved love letters to the art of film. The film follows Salvatore, a successful director who, after learning of the death of his old friend Alfredo, the projectionist from his childhood, is drawn back into memories of growing up in a small Sicilian town. Through the story of the boy Totò, his friendship with Alfredo, and the magic of the local cinema, Giuseppe Tornatore creates a tender, nostalgic, and emotional tribute to film, memory, and the people who shape our lives. The film was presented to the Ponta Lopud audience by Suzana Perić and Alessandro De Rosa.
SATURDAY
27 Jun 2026
KOKE / HONEY BUNNY (2026)
Grand Hotel Park
9:00 PM
Honey Bunny is the feature debut of Igor Jelinović, set within the family and island context of the Croatian coast. At the centre of the story are sisters Tonina and Tajana, whose relationship is strained after Tonina secretly takes over part of their family holiday home on Hvar, even though the sisters had planned to buy it together. A year later, an attempt at reconciliation on their mother’s birthday brings old tensions back to the surface. The film offers a sharp, witty, and emotionally charged story about family, ownership, guilt, and the relationship between sisters. The film was presented to the Ponta Lopud audience by director Igor Jelinović and actress Snježana Sinovčić-Šiškov.
SUNDAY
28 Jun 2026
HOMAGE TO ENNIO MORRICONE
Grand Hotel Park
9:00 PM
The Homage to Ennio Morricone concert brought together outstanding musicians and film artists for an evening dedicated to a composer whose music has become an inseparable part of the collective memory of film lovers around the world. From intimate melodies to monumental orchestral themes, Morricone’s film music shaped the emotional identity of some of the most important works in the history of world cinema. The concert programme featured a selection of compositions from films that marked the history of cinema and generations of audiences, reminding us of music’s unique power to evoke emotion, atmosphere, and the memory of film itself. Through this concert, Ponta Lopud Film Festival paid tribute to an artist who transformed film music into an art form in its own right, offering audiences an evening devoted to the power of music, cinema, and shared experience beneath the open skies of Lopud.
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Music Programme
28 Jun 2026 • 9 PM
Cinema, Music and the Composer: Homage to Ennio Morricone
I spent my professional career in the film industry as a music editor, collaborating with composers who showed me how deeply music can shape a film’s identity and emotional world. Among them, Ennio Morricone holds a special place. From his experimental beginnings with the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza to unforgettable scores for films such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in America, and Cinema Paradiso, Morricone forever changed the way we experience film music. This programme is conceived as a tribute to his legacy and to music that gives film depth, emotion, and a lasting imprint. Twenty-five years ago, I had the honour of sharing with him the idea of creating a programme dedicated to film music, and this concert represents part of the fulfilment of that promise.
SUZANA PERIĆ, music editor and initiator of the Homage to Ennio Morricone program
Concert Programme
Once Upon a Time in America
Malèna – End Titles
Deborah’s Theme (Once Upon a Time in America)
Come un madrigale (Four Flies on Grey Velvet)
Metti una sera a cena
Love Theme / Song for Elena (Cinema Paradiso)
Indagine (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion)
Al Capone (The Untouchables)
Humanity, Part 1 (The Thing)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Sixty Seconds to What (For a Few Dollars More)
1900’s Theme – Playing Love (The Legend of 1900)
The Man with the Harmonica (Once Upon a Time in the West)
Once Upon a Time in the West – Main Theme
Giù la testa (A Fistful of Dynamite)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Main Titles
A Lydia (Scusi, facciamo amore?)
Performers and guests of the Homage to Ennio Morricone programme
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Meet our Masters & Guests of Honour
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Artistic and programme team
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Projects in development
This year’s programme was designed around two feature-length fiction projects that had already secured financing and were in pre-production at the time of the festival: The Long Weekend, directed by Katarina Koljević, and History of Illness, directed by David Gašo. Work on these projects enabled participants to develop their ideas through concrete creative and production challenges, in direct dialogue with the masters and other film professionals.
Film Title
DIRECTOR
David Gašo
GENRE
Drama
DURATION
100 min
COUNTRY
Croatia
Synopsis
In the midst of hospital renovations, sensitive Jošt is spending his day trying to find out more about the tic of his left eye that, for some reason, won’t show itself in front of medical personnel.
Meanwhile, a surgeon is struggling to explain an intuitive feeling caused by a bad dream, while a hungry patient is waiting for his surgery that keeps getting postponed. On the same day, the main quality assurance nurse gets a birthday surprise, even though her birthday was two months ago, a determined pigeon is trying to get inside the hospital, and a thirsty patient keeps struggling to reach her glass of water.
By next morning, the leftovers of a strawberry cake will cause an allergic reaction, Jošt will wet his bed and two people will die.
Fellows
Film Title
DIRECTOR
Katarina Koljević
GENRE
Drama
DURATION
90 min
COUNTRY
Serbia
Synopsis
The "hotel for singles" serves as a collective protagonist, a microcosm of a Serbian society ground down by a deviant version of liberal capitalism. None of the tenants intended to end up here, but when a stranger arrives and commits suicide, their stagnant lives are irrevocably altered.
The hotel becomes an immersive, high-tension trap where misfortune binds the residents together. As Jasna, a caregiver, begins an amateur investigation into the woman’s death, the lives of the other tenants intersect: Marko, the hotel manager; Nikola, an undertaker in search of clients; and younger staff members Kristina and Andrej. They are joined by Dragan, a former legal officer, and Boris, a delivery driver.
While the younger group uses dark humour as a shield, the older residents remain anesthetized by memories of a better past. The presence of death forces each of them to question if they are truly living, proving that in a borderline situation, our only thin defence against the void is the people around us.
Fellows
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FF2026 Music Fellows
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Talks & Masterclasses
Our lectures and masterclasses are primarily intended for festival fellows and participants, offering them a space for direct exchange, hands-on learning, and professional dialogue with leading film artists. Some sessions, however, were open to all interested audiences and attracted visitors eager to engage in conversations about film, art, and contemporary creative practices.
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Evening Conversation: Leonⁿ MonoSerieⁿ: Effort Collapse: Art, Identity and Meaning in the Age of AI
In this evening conversation and live demonstration, artist Leonⁿ MonoSerieⁿ invites participants to step briefly outside the world of film and into painting. Through examples from his practice and live robot painting, he explores Effort Collapse as a mirror for contemporary creative life: if a machine can take over the effort, what still counts as the artist’s work? The session opens questions of authorship, labour, automation and meaning, and asks what, if anything, remains irreducibly human.
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Continuing a cherished tradition, a palm tree was watered by festival masters and participants.
Due to the renovation of the Đorđić-Mayneri Botanical Garden, the traditional palm planting did not take place this year.
However, the tradition was symbolically continued through the watering of a palm sapling in a pot in front of Mandrač restaurant. The sapling was watered by masters Reinaldo Marcus Green and Lukas Dhont, together with other festival participants, and will be planted in the park at a later date.
Edition
Watering date
Species
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'24
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'22
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FF 2026
JUN 25-28, 2026
Every June, Lopud becomes a meeting place for film, music, and creativity. Set within a unique Mediterranean setting, the festival brings together international filmmakers, artists, mentors, emerging talents, and audiences through screenings, conversations, masterclasses, the development of new film projects, and the presentation of regional authors.
The festival’s sixth edition, held from 25 to 28 June, also featured a special programme dedicated to the relationship between film and music, with a particular focus on the legacy of Ennio Morricone. Through films, conversations, and a closing concert dedicated to his music, the festival continued to create a space for artistic dialogue, collaboration, and inspiration beneath the open skies of Lopud Island.
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Festival Programme
Wednesday
24 Jun 2026
ENNIO (2021)
Rector’s Palace
5:15 PM
Ennio is a documentary portrait of one of the most important and beloved film composers of the 20 th century, Ennio Morricone. Through conversations with Morricone, archival materials, music, and testimonies from numerous directors, musicians, and collaborators, Giuseppe Tornatore explores the creative journey of the author of more than five hundred film scores. The film reveals both well-known and lesser-known aspects of Morricone’s work, from his long-standing collaboration with Tornatore to the musical ideas that shaped the history of cinema. The film was presented to the festival audience by composer Alessandro De Rosa.
Thursday
25 Jun 2026
BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE (2024)
Grand Hotel Park
9:00 PM
Bob Marley: One Love celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations with his message of love, peace, and unity. The film follows Bob Marley through the story of his confrontation with challenges, personal and social turmoil, and the creation of music that changed the world. Kingsley Ben-Adir stars in the title role, while Lashana Lynch portrays Rita Marley and James Norton plays Chris Blackwell. The film was directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, who personally presented it to the Ponta Lopud audience.
THURSDAY
25 Jun 2026
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (2017)
Grand Hotel Park
11:00 PM
To mark the 10 th anniversary of the production of Call Me by Your Name, the screening was presented by producer Peter Spears.
In the summer of 1983, in northern Italy, seventeen-year-old American Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet) spends his days at his family’s 17 th -century villa, idly transcribing music and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a twenty-four-year-old doctoral student, arrives for his annual summer internship to assist Elio’s father (Michael Stuhlbarg), a distinguished professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will change their lives forever.
Friday
26 Jun 2026
CLOSE (2022)
Grand Hotel Park
9:00 PM
Close, winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, is an emotional story of friendship and responsibility. The film follows Léo and Rémi, two thirteen-year-old boys whose intense and inseparable friendship suddenly comes to an end. Trying to understand what happened, Léo grows closer to Sophie, Rémi’s mother. Lukas Dhont creates a tender and deeply moving film about growing up, intimacy, loss, and the words that often remain unspoken. The film was presented to the festival audience by director Lukas Dhont.
FRIDAY
26 Jun 2026
CINEMA PARADISO (1988)
Grand Hotel Park
11:00 PM
Cinema Paradiso, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Grand Prix at Cannes, is one of cinema’s most beloved love letters to the art of film. The film follows Salvatore, a successful director who, after learning of the death of his old friend Alfredo, the projectionist from his childhood, is drawn back into memories of growing up in a small Sicilian town. Through the story of the boy Totò, his friendship with Alfredo, and the magic of the local cinema, Giuseppe Tornatore creates a tender, nostalgic, and emotional tribute to film, memory, and the people who shape our lives. The film was presented to the Ponta Lopud audience by Suzana Perić and Alessandro De Rosa.
SATURDAY
27 Jun 2026
KOKE / HONEY BUNNY (2026)
Grand Hotel Park
9:00 PM
Honey Bunny is the feature debut of Igor Jelinović, set within the family and island context of the Croatian coast. At the centre of the story are sisters Tonina and Tajana, whose relationship is strained after Tonina secretly takes over part of their family holiday home on Hvar, even though the sisters had planned to buy it together. A year later, an attempt at reconciliation on their mother’s birthday brings old tensions back to the surface. The film offers a sharp, witty, and emotionally charged story about family, ownership, guilt, and the relationship between sisters. The film was presented to the Ponta Lopud audience by director Igor Jelinović and actress Snježana Sinovčić-Šiškov.
SUNDAY
28 Jun 2026
HOMAGE TO ENNIO MORRICONE
Grand Hotel Park
9:00 PM
The Homage to Ennio Morricone concert brought together outstanding musicians and film artists for an evening dedicated to a composer whose music has become an inseparable part of the collective memory of film lovers around the world. From intimate melodies to monumental orchestral themes, Morricone’s film music shaped the emotional identity of some of the most important works in the history of world cinema. The concert programme featured a selection of compositions from films that marked the history of cinema and generations of audiences, reminding us of music’s unique power to evoke emotion, atmosphere, and the memory of film itself. Through this concert, Ponta Lopud Film Festival paid tribute to an artist who transformed film music into an art form in its own right, offering audiences an evening devoted to the power of music, cinema, and shared experience beneath the open skies of Lopud.
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Music Programme
28 Jun 2026 • 9 PM
Cinema, Music and the Composer: Homage to Ennio Morricone
I spent my professional career in the film industry as a music editor, collaborating with composers who showed me how deeply music can shape a film’s identity and emotional world. Among them, Ennio Morricone holds a special place. From his experimental beginnings with the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza to unforgettable scores for films such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in America, and Cinema Paradiso, Morricone forever changed the way we experience film music. This programme is conceived as a tribute to his legacy and to music that gives film depth, emotion, and a lasting imprint. Twenty-five years ago, I had the honour of sharing with him the idea of creating a programme dedicated to film music, and this concert represents part of the fulfilment of that promise.
SUZANA PERIĆ, music editor and initiator of the Homage to Ennio Morricone program
Concert Programme
Once Upon a Time in America
Deborah’s Theme (Once Upon a Time in America)
Metti una sera a cena
Indagine (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion)
Humanity, Part 1 (The Thing)
Sixty Seconds to What (For a Few Dollars More)
The Man with the Harmonica (Once Upon a Time in the West)
Giù la testa (A Fistful of Dynamite)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Main Titles
Once Upon a Time in the West – Main Theme
Malèna – End Titles
Come un madrigale (Four Flies on Grey Velvet)
Love Theme / Song for Elena (Cinema Paradiso)
Al Capone (The Untouchables)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1900’s Theme – Playing Love (The Legend of 1900)
A Lydia (Scusi, facciamo amore?)
Performers and guests of the Homage to Ennio Morricone programme
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Meet our Masters & Guests of Honour
[
Artistic and programme team
[
Projects in development
This year’s programme was designed around two feature-length fiction projects that had already secured financing and were in pre-production at the time of the festival: The Long Weekend, directed by Katarina Koljević, and History of Illness, directed by David Gašo. Work on these projects enabled participants to develop their ideas through concrete creative and production challenges, in direct dialogue with the masters and other film professionals.
Film Title
DIRECTOR
David Gašo
GENRE
Drama
DURATION
100 min
COUNTRY
Croatia
Synopsis
In the midst of hospital renovations, sensitive Jošt is spending his day trying to find out more about the tic of his left eye that, for some reason, won’t show itself in front of medical personnel.
Meanwhile, a surgeon is struggling to explain an intuitive feeling caused by a bad dream, while a hungry patient is waiting for his surgery that keeps getting postponed. On the same day, the main quality assurance nurse gets a birthday surprise, even though her birthday was two months ago, a determined pigeon is trying to get inside the hospital, and a thirsty patient keeps struggling to reach her glass of water.
By next morning, the leftovers of a strawberry cake will cause an allergic reaction, Jošt will wet his bed and two people will die.
Fellows
Film Title
DIRECTOR
Katarina Koljević
GENRE
Drama
DURATION
90 min
COUNTRY
Serbia
Synopsis
The "hotel for singles" serves as a collective protagonist, a microcosm of a Serbian society ground down by a deviant version of liberal capitalism. None of the tenants intended to end up here, but when a stranger arrives and commits suicide, their stagnant lives are irrevocably altered.
The hotel becomes an immersive, high-tension trap where misfortune binds the residents together. As Jasna, a caregiver, begins an amateur investigation into the woman’s death, the lives of the other tenants intersect: Marko, the hotel manager; Nikola, an undertaker in search of clients; and younger staff members Kristina and Andrej. They are joined by Dragan, a former legal officer, and Boris, a delivery driver.
While the younger group uses dark humour as a shield, the older residents remain anesthetized by memories of a better past. The presence of death forces each of them to question if they are truly living, proving that in a borderline situation, our only thin defence against the void is the people around us.
Fellows
[
FF2026 Music Fellows
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Talks & Masterclasses
Our lectures and masterclasses are primarily intended for festival fellows and participants, offering them a space for direct exchange, hands-on learning, and professional dialogue with leading film artists. Some sessions, however, were open to all interested audiences and attracted visitors eager to engage in conversations about film, art, and contemporary creative practices.
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Evening Conversation: Leonⁿ MonoSerieⁿ: Effort Collapse: Art, Identity and Meaning in the Age of AI
In this evening conversation and live demonstration, artist Leonⁿ MonoSerieⁿ invites participants to step briefly outside the world of film and into painting. Through examples from his practice and live robot painting, he explores Effort Collapse as a mirror for contemporary creative life: if a machine can take over the effort, what still counts as the artist’s work? The session opens questions of authorship, labour, automation and meaning, and asks what, if anything, remains irreducibly human.
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Continuing a cherished tradition, a palm tree was watered by festival masters and participants.
Due to the renovation of the Đorđić-Mayneri Botanical Garden, the traditional palm planting did not take place this year.
However, the tradition was symbolically continued through the watering of a palm sapling in a pot in front of Mandrač restaurant. The sapling was watered by masters Reinaldo Marcus Green and Lukas Dhont, together with other festival participants, and will be planted in the park at a later date.
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Become a member of the Ponta Lopud Club to engage with an exclusive artistic community and contribute to the lasting legacy of the Ponta Lopud Festivals.
Become a member of the Ponta Lopud Club to engage with an exclusive artistic community and contribute to the lasting legacy of the Ponta Lopud Festivals.
As a distinguished member, you will enjoy VIP access with priority seating at all festival events, exclusive invitations to private gatherings, and participation in curated off-program activities. Your support will be honoured in our journal, newsletter, and official website.
As a distinguished member, you will enjoy VIP access with priority seating at all festival events, exclusive invitations to private gatherings, and participation in curated off-program activities. Your support will be honoured in our journal, newsletter, and official website.
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Jazz Festival 2026
Book Bridge Festival 2026
Organised by
Ponta Lopud Festival j.d.o.o.
Dubrovnik Partner d.o.o. & Udruga Aklapela
Press
Sponsors
We want to thank all of our partners, sponsors and supporters who are here for us at all times! Thank you for making this experience unforgettable for all our guests, masters, participants and us.
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Never miss a moment
Be the first to hear about our news and events.
Film Festival 2026
Jazz Festival 2026
Book Bridge Festival 2026
Organised by
Ponta Lopud Festival j.d.o.o.
Dubrovnik Partner d.o.o. & Udruga Aklapela
Press
Sponsors
We want to thank all of our partners, sponsors and supporters who are here for us at all times! Thank you for making this experience unforgettable for all our guests, masters, participants and us.