Trash Film Festival

Trash Film Festival Trash Film Festival is an international festival of low-budget genre movies. It has been taking place in Varaždin for 20 years.

The festival's top prize is the Golden Chainsaw. The festival's top prize is the Golden Chainsaw and it is given for:
• The best horror
• The best martial-arts
• The best sci-fi
• The best action film
• The best film by audience choice

Best Horror and Best Film Audience Choice: THE INSPECTOR (EL REVISOR) by JandroJURY'S STATEMENT:This was the most dificu...
20/09/2026

Best Horror and Best Film Audience Choice: THE INSPECTOR (EL REVISOR) by Jandro

JURY'S STATEMENT:

This was the most dificult category to choose the winner from. In the end, the decisive factor was that this film achieved a lot in terms of cinematography, mise-en-scène and dramaturgy - it took a big task on itself and it completed it extremely well. Therefore we are happy to give this award to Jandro for the film El Revisor (The Inspector).

-Svebor Jelić, Romain Roll & Richard Stanley

Best long-feature: CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING by Sander MaranJURY’S STATEMENT This film was so great that the director of th...
19/09/2026

Best long-feature: CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING by Sander Maran

JURY’S STATEMENT
This film was so great that the director of the festival decided to create a category for a long-feature film just so this film could be shown on the festival. This plus the fact this film took 13 years to make, shows a dedication to the filmmaking craft that deserves this award. The film brings music, gore and humor together in a very original and unique way and therefore we believe this groundbreaking film will become a classic in its genre. For this reason the Golden chainsaw goes to Sander Maran for the film
Chainsaws Were Singing.

-Svebor Jelić, Romain Roll & Richard Stanley

Best action: DAGIAN by Peter DoczeJURY’S STATEMENT ON DAGIANThis film creates high tension and feeling of empathy toward...
18/09/2026

Best action: DAGIAN by Peter Docze

JURY’S STATEMENT ON DAGIAN

This film creates high tension and feeling of empathy towards the main character, by using a beautiful cinematography and well executed stunts. Combining action and horror through original storytelling, this film achieves depth and emotional impact within a remarkably short runtime, despite having only a few scenes. For these reasons, the Golden Chainsaw for Best Action goes to Peter Docze for the film Dagian.

-Svebor Jelić, Romain Roll & Richard Stanley

17/09/2026
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15/09/2026

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Ovogodišnje izdanje festivala bilo je posvećeno kibernetici.

14/09/2026

Trash Film Festival final party!
Hvala Koncertni ured Varaždin i Scena & Bar Rogoz

❤️ A FESTIVAL IS MADE BY PEOPLE ❤️The Trash Film Festival may be over, but before we wrap up this year’s edition, there ...
14/09/2026

❤️ A FESTIVAL IS MADE BY PEOPLE ❤️

The Trash Film Festival may be over, but before we wrap up this year’s edition, there is one very important thing left to do - say a huge THANK YOU to all the amazing people who made it happen!

First of all, a big round of applause to our volunteers who welcomed our guests at the Info Point and kept things running smoothly in the cinema lobby: Igor Erceg, Bono Pintarec, Tara Štimec, Jan Dubravec, Kaja & Marinka Zavrtnik, Neva Vešić, Marko Zrno and Silvija Špiranec 🥰

Tomislav Jarmić Novi hosted the Opening Ceremony, Cosplay Battle, and the Golden Chainsaw Award Ceremony, while Goran Rožman took care of our guests’ transfers to the airport.

The final award video-sketches were filmed and edited by Tin Sokol, Tea Lovreković, Tomislav Jarmić and Jurica Hižak, with great help from Predrag Krobot, Damir Chytil, and Ivan Todorović. There were many more members of the Rebl Film crew working on sketches: Bernard Pintarec, Benjamin Pintarec Petar Prstec, Igor Erceg, Lea Kosanović, Filip Kliček, David Žetko, as well as Luka Korpar, Deni Lučev, Valter Hižak, Lucija Makovec Jež, and many others.

🎬 FILM PROGRAMME

Films were selected by Boris Prole and Benjamin Pintarec :)

Robert Borović prepared the films for screening and also edited and technically prepared the Golden Chainsaw Award Ceremony.

A special "thank you" goes to Goran Plantak, manager of Kino Gaj, who made sure our screenings ran smoothly and on schedule.

All the festival visuals and posters were designed by Roby Marciuss, while Lea Kosanović created the layout of our festival booklet.

Our Q&A sessions were hosted by our film selectors Boris Prole and Benjamin Pintarec, giving our audiences a chance to meet the filmmakers and hear the stories behind their films. That wouldn't be possible without the presence of filmmakers; Sander, Henryk, Ragnar, Danilo, Jovan, Peter, Tamas, Gergo and Jandro who traveled a long way to make our festival even more special!

DAY 4 Photo Report - Part I Robomaster Arena at Atrium and Q&A at Kino Gaj
14/09/2026

DAY 4 Photo Report - Part I
Robomaster Arena at Atrium and Q&A at Kino Gaj

Address

Festival Venue: Kino Gaj, Gajeva 1
Varazdin
42000

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