Murray will attend Ciff to screen his film, “The Friend,” which will open the fest on August 8 in Croatia’s coastal city of Sibenik.
Based on the bestselling novel by Sigrid Nunez, “The Friend” follows Iris (Naomi Watts), a writer whose life is upended when her friend and literary mentor (Murray) bequeaths her his beloved Great Dane.
Directed by Scott McGhee and David Siegel, “The Friend,” which debuted at last year’s Telluride Film Festival and then screened at Toronto, was released to North America by Bleecker Street in March.
McGhee and Siegel will also attend Ciff, a four-day event, with Murray.
“We’ve been yearning to visit Croatia ever since working with the great Croatian actor Goran Visnjic in our film ‘The Deep End,’” McGhee and Siegel said in a joint statement. “We couldn’t be more excited about…