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Country Focus Croatia 2019
A Two Way Mirror Katarina Zrinka Matijević

Impressive nature shots of the Lika region in the Croatian interior filmed over the four seasons form a contrast to the director’s off-screen autobiographical tale – four lost pregnancies, separation, and epilepsy.

A Two Way Mirror

Documentary Film
Croatia
2016
42 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Nenad Puhovski, Tamara Babun
Director
Katarina Zrinka Matijević
Music
Šumovi protiv valova
Cinematographer
Vjeran Hrpka
Editor
Ana Štulina
Script
Katarina Zrinka Matijević
Sound
Vesna Biljan Pušić, Ivan Zelić
Impressive nature shots of the Lika region in the Croatian interior filmed over the four seasons, some with a macro camera, form a contrast to the director’s off-screen autobiographical tale – four lost pregnancies, separation, and epilepsy. Poetic images of blades of grass and animals, water and tunnels, allegorise the mental struggle for survival and focus on beauty despite all painful experiences. The film, in which not only the director’s individual traumatic past but the collective history of the country are inscribed, functions as a meditative self-reflection of universal value.

Borjana Gaković
Country Focus Croatia 2019
After Party Viktor Zahtila

A universal story of separation about two lovers who can’t live together. Complete with an excursion on the homophobia of Croatian everyday society.

After Party

Documentary Film
Croatia
2018
22 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Marin Leo Janković, Laura Vuksan
Director
Viktor Zahtila
Cinematographer
Karla Jurić
Editor
Elena Radošević, Viktor Zahtila
Script
Viktor Zahtila
A universal story of separation about two lovers who can’t live together. These arguments about concepts of life and love, hedonism and principles are cleverly staged and told in five chapters, with a full dose of eroticism, with obsessive jump cuts and beautifully photographed – complete with an excursion on the homophobia of Croatian everyday society.

Borjana Gaković
Country Focus Croatia 2019
Ghost in the Machine Leon Rizmaul

This experimental documentary which addresses the materiality and technicality of images, takes a look at media history, exploring what happens with narratives slumbering in (television) archives.

Ghost in the Machine

Documentary Film
Croatia
2018
27 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Sunčana Hrvatin Kunić
Director
Leon Rizmaul
Music
Marko Lucijan Hrašćanec
Cinematographer
Ivan Brezovec
Editor
Hrvoje Mršić
Script
Tajana Prpić
This experimental documentary which addresses the materiality and technicality of images and was produced by Croatian public television takes a look at media history, exploring what happens with narratives slumbering in (television) archives when the devices to play them no longer exist. With the participation of Irena Vrkljan, dffb graduate of the first hour, this poetic documentary reflects (television) life in a frequently repressed era – Yugoslavian real socialism. In a way that is now unusually affectionate for the Post-Yugoslav region.

Borjana Gaković
Country Focus Croatia 2019
Mezostajun Ivan Ramljak

In the dialect of the Island of Korčula, “mezostajun” means shoulder season, time of transition. Static shots taken with a 16mm camera show the deserted island after the season.

Mezostajun

Documentary Film
Croatia
2018
20 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Vanja Jambrović, Tibor Keser
Director
Ivan Ramljak
Cinematographer
Smiljka Guštak
Editor
Damir Čučić, Jelena Maksimović
Script
Ivan Ramljak
Sound
Jakov Munižaba
In the dialect of the Island of Korčula, “mezostajun” means shoulder season, time of transition. Static shots taken with a 16mm camera show the deserted island after the season, revealing its architectures. Off-screen we hear – par contre – the lively voices of the summer guests, their interactions with the inhabitants of the island, filled with misunderstandings, their daily conversations, children playing, the traditional music of the area.

Borjana Gaković
Country Focus Croatia 2019
Naked Island Tiha K. Gudac

In her autobiographical documentary, the director addresses a dark chapter of Yugoslavian real socialism – the persecution of persons declared “politically unsuitable” and enemies of the people during the Tito era.

Naked Island

Documentary Film
Croatia
2014
76 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Nenad Puhovski
Director
Tiha K. Gudac
Music
Dubravko Robić
Cinematographer
Eva Kraljević, Tamara Cesarec, Srđan Kovačević, Tiha K. Gudac
Editor
Dragan Petrović
Animation
Bruno Razum
Script
Tiha K. Gudac
Sound
Ivan Zelić
In her autobiographical documentary, the director addresses a dark chapter of Yugoslavian real socialism – the persecution of persons declared “politically unsuitable” and enemies of the people during the Tito era. Her grandfather survived imprisonment in a camp for political prisoners on the barren island of Goli otok, where torture and brutal harassment were part of daily life. The family never talked about this; he took his story to his grave. In conversations with family members, surviving friends and with the help of family photos Tiha Gudac tries to understand where the scars on her grandfather’s body came from that burned themselves into her memory.

Borjana Gaković
Country Focus Croatia 2019
The Parade Arijana Lekić-Fridrih

An aesthetic and image-political examination of the glorification of war and the annually recurring military demonstration of power – emancipatory, without dialogue and in black and white.

The Parade

Documentary Film
Croatia
2016
8 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Arijana Lekić-Fridrih
Director
Arijana Lekić-Fridrih
Cinematographer
Ivan Lukić
Editor
Nikolina Hržić
Script
Arijana Lekić-Fridrih
Sound
Nikolina Hržić
An aesthetic and image-political examination of the glorification of war and the annually recurring military demonstration of power – emancipatory, without dialogue and in black and white.

Borjana Gaković
Country Focus Croatia 2019
The Steel Mill Café Goran Dević

For decades, a couple managed a small pub at Sisak bus station, right next to the entrance of one of the once biggest steel mills in Eastern Europe. The film documents the last days before the Buffet Željezara closes

The Steel Mill Café

Documentary Film
Croatia
2017
61 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Hrvoje Osvadić
Director
Goran Dević
Cinematographer
Vedran Rapo
Editor
Vladimir Gojun
Script
Goran Dević
Sound
Martin Semenčić, Ivan Zelić
For decades, a couple managed a small pub at Sisak bus station, right next to the entrance of one of the once biggest steel mills in Eastern Europe. A former symbol of the growth of socialist economy, Sisak now looks like a ghost town. The factory is long closed, the workers have moved away or retired. The film documents the last days before the Buffet Željezara closes whose managers now want to try their luck in Germany. In the last pub talks, the few remaining regulars give free rein to racist resentment as well as conspiracy theories about global politics.

Borjana Gaković
Country Focus Croatia 2019
They Just Come and Go Boris Poljak

One of the most highly-frequented party beaches on the Croatian coast during peak season. The tourists exuberantly end their day; the locals begin to clean up.

They Just Come and Go

Documentary Film
Croatia
2017
20 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Vera Robić-Škarica
Director
Boris Poljak
Cinematographer
Boris Poljak
Editor
Damir Čučić
Sound
Martin Semenčić
The observant, patient camera documents dawn at one of the most highly-frequented party beaches on the Croatian coast during peak season. The tourists exuberantly end their day; the locals begin to clean up.

Borjana Gaković
Country Focus Croatia 2019
Where To? Lidija Špegar

Day and night Ljiljana, a young woman from the Croatian province of Slavonia, drives a taxi in the Croatian capital of Zagreb. Not only a portrait of contemporary Croatian society but also of a precarious existence.

Where To?

Documentary Film
Croatia
2017
52 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Tibor Keser
Director
Lidija Špegar
Music
Porto Morto
Cinematographer
Rino Barbir
Editor
Iva Ivan
Sound
Srđan Popović
A taxi film. Day and night Ljiljana, a young woman from the Croatian province of Slavonia, drives a taxi in the Croatian capital of Zagreb. From the yellowish shots in the narrow interior of her car and conversations with passengers from all walks of life and “from all over the world” unfolds not only a portrait of contemporary Croatian society but also of a precarious existence. An intelligent film that discusses the transition processes, the migration, global capitalism and the (failed) transition from one social system to another in an entertaining and yet resigned way.

Borjana Gaković
Country Focus Croatia 2019
White Trash Sunčica Ana Veldić

This experimental documentary shows a garbage dump in a misty dawn on which not only people operate diggers, practise biology and protect the environment but seagulls go about their daily job, too.

White Trash

Documentary Film
Croatia
2017
12 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Sunčica Ana Veldić
Director
Sunčica Ana Veldić
Music
Zdravko Medvešek
Cinematographer
Ante Cvitanović
Editor
Jan Klemsche, Sunčica Ana Veldić, Marta Broz
Script
Sunčica Ana Veldić
Sound
Martin Semenčić, Lana Horvatić
This experimental documentary shows a garbage dump in a misty dawn on which not only people operate diggers, practise biology and protect the environment but seagulls go about their daily job, too.

Borjana Gaković