BALKAN
Once Upon a Youth
O jednoj mladosti
Directors
Ivan Ramljak
Producers
Matej Merlić
Cinematographers
Marko Čaklović
Editors
Ivor Šonje
Sound
Borna Buljević
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2020
Croatia
18 min
Color
13 years after the unexpected death of his one time best friend, filmmaker tries to reconstruct his life and their relationship, using just the photographs and video materials which his friend shot back then. A film about the lost generation of Croatian youth in the end of the 90's, who are trying to find their identity in the
aftermath of a devastating war.
aftermath of a devastating war.
Director
Ivan Ramljak (born 1974) is a film critic, director and independent curator. Since 2013 he is curating a short film program called Kratki utorak (Short Tuesday) at cinema Tuškanac in Zagreb, and since 2016 he is the artistic director of Tabor Film Festival. So far, he has directed nine shorts and one medium length film, four of those in collaboration with Marko Škobalj. His most successful film so far was the short documentary 'Kino otok' ('Islands of Forgotten Cinemas', 2016), which was screened on more than 40 international festivals, and won 6 awards, including the FIPRESCI prize for Best Eastern European dox at goEast FF in Wiesbaden.
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