International Puppet Festival will be held 15 to 21 Sep 2023 in Zagreb, Croatia. International Puppet Festival is a largely professional puppet theatre groups. It is also a festival for any puppeteer or theatrician who uses puppetry as a means of artistic expression. Until now more than 450 theatres from all continents have participated. The festival is for both adults and children. PIF has been held each year since 1968, so the festival has long tradition behind it. It is usualy held in the end of August or in the beginning of September. PIF has always been open to all forms of puppet expression, to all puppet techniques, all genres, all themes. Along with the festival special seminars are offered on the making of puppets and animation. Puppet exhibitions are also organised, and a collection of scripts of all plays performed at the PIF is displayed. International Puppet Festival is an event and I like events...
In these years of the festival more than 500 theatres from some fifty countries from all continents have taken part. For five to seven days very different plays are performed - from traditional to completely new modern experimental shows - for children and adults. The plays are performed in numerous theatre halls, as well as in the streets and squares of Zagreb. They are observed by two juries: the children’s which observes all plays for children and chooses the best according to its taste, and an international jury of experts which follows all the performances at the festival and presents the main festival prize for the best play in its entirety, while also giving prizes for individual achievements.