23.LFF
Opatija
26.-30.08.2025.

Film

9th OF JANUARY

LFF14, In competition

ABOUT THE MOVIE

On 9 January 1944, fascists came to the Istrian village Bokordići. They burnt houses and killed adult villagers. The surviving inhabitants, who were children at the time, recollect the tragic night and reconstruct the story that is seven decades old through their narrations.

Elvis Lenić

ELVIS LENIĆ, born in 1971 in Pula. Graduated mechanical engineering at the Technical Faculty in Rijeka, worked for a while at the Uljanik Shipyard, and now teachesmechanical group of subjects at the Pula Technical School. He is a permanent film critic of The Voice of Istria newspaper, and occasionally writes for the Croatian Film Chronicle. Author of many short and medium-length documentaries.Filmography:SHIP/BROD (65 min, 2023)MEAT/MESO (18 min, 2018)9. JANUAR, documentary (15 min, 2015)PROLOGUE/PROLOG, experimental (7 min, 2014)ETHAN, experimental (8 min 30 sec, 2013)COMRADE FERLIN/DRUG FERLIN (45 min, 2011)HUNT/LOV (39 min, 2007)STABLE/TEZA (10 min, 2004)PIG SLAUGHTER/PRAŠĆINA (20 min, 2002)GOURDS/CUKI (10 min, 2001)

Title: 9th OF JANUARY
Year of production: 2015
Duration: 15
Director: Elvis Lenić
Screenplay: Elvis Lenić
Photography: Elvis Lenić
Sound design: Matija Debeljuh
Production: Elvis Lenić