In collaboration with the Pula Film Festival and the Dubrovnik Cinemas, the Dubrovnik Summer Festival will be showing the best Croatian feature film from Pula at the Jadran Open-air Cinema, on Wednesday, 24 July at 9.30pm. This year, the traditional free screening of the winning Croatian film brings the smash hit of the 66th Pula Film Festival, the Diary of Diana B, a “true story about the best of people and the worst of times,” by director Dana Budisavljević.

A spectacular concert was held last night, July 20 by The Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra and the virtuoso trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger, in the jam-packed atrium of the Rector’s Palace. The distinguished maestro Franz Anton Krager conducted the evening’s programme, comprised of Aaron Copland’s Music for the Movies, Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto in E Major, Zoltán Kodály’s Summer Evening, Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel and, finally, Robert Nelson’s arrangement of The Lone Star Pageant.

As a part of the anniversary 70th Dubrovnik Summer Festival theatre programme, last year’s acclaimed hit play “Under the Balconies” by director Dario Harjaček and dramaturge Vedrana Klepica, based on the works of Croatian literature luminary Ranko Marinković, was performed for the final time last night, 18 July, in the University of Dubrovnik campus park. Two performances were given previously at the 70th Festival, on 16 and 17 July also at 9.30pm in the verdant campus park.