Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard to Attend Slano Film Days

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard will be among the guests at Slano Film Days, which runs June 16-20 in Slano, a small coastal town in Croatia. Other guests at the event include directors Paweł Pawlikowski, whose “Ida” won an Oscar, and Ruben Östlund, a two-time Palme d’Or winner.

Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard will introduce audiences to “The Bride!,” which Gyllenhaal directed, and in which Sarsgaard appears.

“The Bride!,” an American Gothic romance inspired by the 1935 classic “Bride of Frankenstein,” written, directed and produced by Gyllenhaal, stars Jessie Buckley, winner of the Oscar for best leading actress at this year’s Academy Awards, alongside Christian Bale, Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening and Jake Gyllenhaal. The film follows “The Lost Daughter,” Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut, which was nominated for three Oscars. This year, Gyllenhaal will serve as president of the jury at the Venice Film Festival.

In Slano, Gyllenhaal will take part in an onstage conversation with cinematographer Michael Seresin (“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”). Sarsgaard will be in conversation with Michel Franco, the director of “Memory,” in which Sarsgaard starred opposite Jessica Chastain, earning the Volpi Cup for best actor at the Venice Film Festival.

In Slano, Pawlikowski will screen “Fatherland,” which won the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival, while Östlund will talk about his new feature “The Entertainment System Is Down,” which is in post.

Slano Film Days was founded and is directed by Miro Purivatra, the former head of the Sarajevo Film Festival.