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U2 and Amy Winehouse docos at 4th Starigrad-Paklenica Film Festival

Croatian Times

The 4th Starigrad-Paklenica Film Festival, the international festival of music documentary films will be held from 4 - 10 August in the special ambience of Paklenica National Park in northern Dalmatia.

Organisers announced on Tuesday the line up of films for this year's festival. Amongst others, there will be films about famous Irish band U2 and George Harrison, which are directed by Oscar winners Davis Guggenheim and Martin Scorsese, also showing will be a film about the group Queen, Amy Winehouse and Joseph Haydn.

Besides films, there will be a music program at the festival, which will include guitar virtuoso Vlatko Stefanovski performing at a gala soloist concert, reported portal politikaplus.hr.

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