📍 Motovun, Old Town
Independent auteur cinema festival in the medieval hilltop town of Motovun in Istria, founded in 1999 by Rajko Grlić. Open-air screenings on the main square (Trg Andrea Antico) — the audience sits on stone steps, the screen fills the wall of a Renaissance palace. Films from Cannes, Berlinale, Sundance. Cult status among Central European cinephiles.
📍 Motovun Old Town + forests
Six weeks celebrating truffle season in Istria — Motovun at the heart of truffle country. Truffle hunts with lagotto romagnolo dogs in forests above the Mirna river, truffle-menu tastings in traditional konobas (Zigante, Barbacan, Enosophie), cooking workshops. Guinness record holder: 1.31 kg white truffle by Giancarlo Zigante 1999 — the world's largest at the time.