The focus of this year’s 7th Human Rights Film Festival, which will take place between the 7th and the 13th of December at Zagreb’s Europa cinema, will be the struggle for social rights, which is the theme of most films included in the program.

The most famous character of the Zagreb School of Animated Film, professor Baltazar, is once again ready to conquer the global market. All 59 animated episodes, created between 1967 and 1971, have been digitalized, while a range of merchandising - educational toys and gift-items for children, as well as parents, is also in the pipeline.

The oldest gallery in Zagreb will celebrate its 100th birthday with an interesting exhibition of works by Croatian artists, named “Walking in Diversity”.

Between the 11th and the 13th of December, the Zagreb Arena will be the venue for a spectacular musical show on ice, “Mickey and Minnie’s Magical Journey”, featuring characters from Disney’s cartoons.

The new building of the Museum of Contemporary Art will be opened in mid-December. The museum has a representative collection of some 14,000 works in its holdings by Croatian and foreign contemporary artists, which were created in the period between the 1950’s and today.

Continuing the tradition of organizing large exhibitions, starting in early December and continuing into next year, the Museum of Arts and Crafts will host the exhibition “From Klović and Rembrandt, to Warhol and Picelj”. The exhibition will feature more than a thousand works by Croatian and foreign artists, which are part of the rich graphics collection of the National University Library.

On the eve of St. Martin’s Day, a multi-day festival of wine will take place in the city center. Visitors will be attracted by the selected wines and other indigenous products from the Zagreb region.

Between the 12th and the 14th of November, the ice rink of Dom Sportova sports hall will be the venue for the 42nd Golden Pirouette, one of the oldest international ice-skating competitions in the world, featuring the best skaters from Croatia and abroad.