Naked Island
Documentary / 2014 / 75’
Director: Tiha Gudac
Some sixty years ago, a man went missing for four years. He returned back a changed man carrying along a painful secret. He later built his family’s life around this unspoken secret. Talking about the past was forbidden in the family. It was his granddaughter, also the director of this film, who first started asking questions, wanting to find out what lay hidden beneath her grandfather’s scar-covered body ever since childhood. However, he died without revealing the entire story to anyone.
Naked Island is an investigation built upon the ruins of the past, a mosaic made of clues – family photos and intimate testimonies of a tight-knit group of people who were brought together by the same place, a political prison in ex-Yugoslavia that was also known as an island of broken souls, and consequences that this place left on three generations. At the same time, it is a fascinating portrayal of a moment in which a past can finally become history and a brave documentary defying silence and fear.
The Blockade
Documentary /
2012 / 93’
Director: Igor Bezinović
The Blockade is a unique view from within on the most massive, longest and politically most significant student protest in Croatia, since 1971, that started in April of 2009 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. The struggle against the commercialisation of education and the blockade of teaching classes lasted for 34 days. The rebellion spread onto more than 20 faculties across the country and the students became an active and relevant political subject. The crew followed everything: from the exhilarating preparation meetings and blocking of classes to the first signs of exhaustion, through personal situations and discussions late at night, from the initial support of most faculty members to the moment they turned their back to the movement and the attempt to reach the missing minister of education. This film shows that the blockade was not just physical and that it has a much broader meaning.
The Wind Rose
Drama series for RTL Television / 2011
- Director of photography on two seasons
A drama series about complicated family relationships in a small coastal town.
Danijel
Short fiction / 2009 / 11’
Director: Hana Jušić
Danijel and his Mom live together in a squalid flat. Daniel never leaves his armchair and spends his days reading comic books. One day Daniel’s Mom decides to clean the flat and give Danijel a bath.
- Best Cinematography Award - FRKA Film festival 2007
Sentenced To Oblivion
Documentary / in progress
Directors: Maya Nogradi, Luca Belardi
In the years of 1945-1948, fifteen million German people were forced to leave their homes during the systematic Ethnic Cleansing and Expulsion authorised by the winning powers of the Second World War - the biggest exodus that has ever occurred in Europe.
You are so stupid, stupid
Short fiction / 2006 / 3’
/ 16mm
Director: Kristina Kumrić
Women will be women
Documentary / 2010 / 12’
Director: Aziz Satorov
Three touching portraits of women in Kazakhstan and their relation to love and to their loved ones.
Who lives with a yellowbird?
Short fiction / 2007 / 7’
Director: Kristina Kumrić
Monday morning, breakfast, getting ready for school, usual morning routine. Or is it?
Separation
Short fiction / 2014 / 10’
Director: Nina Violić
An intimate drama in which the boundaries between subjective and objective realities intertwine. A mother spends a day at the pool with her daughter. After the child slips briefly out of sight, the tranquil, blue water transforms into a whirlpool of fear.
Poets in Person - Srećko Kramp
Short fiction / 2014 / 16’
Director: Višnja Vukašinović
The life story of Srećko Kramp, a fictional Croatian poet who desperately wants to become a painter, but settles for poetry after gaining some recognition. He ends his life as a well-known cultural icon who, despite all this, never lives up to his own expectations.
Family Meals
Documentary / 2011 / 50’
Director: Dana Budisavljević
Four family members gather for dinner for the first time in five years.