On Thursday 27th November at 5PM, before the official start of the festival, we invite the audience to step into a world where there are no cell-phones, everyone has their own personal clown for fun and leisure. Do these clowns have free will? Can they change their position in society? Or the position of their humans?

Short film “Not Funny” questions relationships, identities and limits of freedom in an allegorical tale that reflects our reality.
The film was made by students of the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka, where students did everything – screenplay, filming, editing, directing, costume and set design, music and graphic design, with a little help from their mentors and professionals. This is also the final BA work of acting students.

There will be a Q&A with students after the screening, to explain the filmmaking process and the creation of this parallel world, how they combined satire and seriousness, and what experiences did this project bring to them personally.

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The International Student Film Festival — STIFF is organized by Filmaktiv and the Student Cultural Center of the University of Rijeka, in co-organization with Art-kino and with the support of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC), the City of Rijeka, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, the Rijeka Tourist Board, the Serbian National Council, the Council of the Serbian National Minority, and the Goethe-Institut Kroatien. The work of Filmaktiv is supported by the Kultura Nova Foundation and the National Foundation for Civil Society Development.