23.LFF
Opatija
26.-30.08.2025.

Film

Home

LFF15, In competition

ABOUT THE MOVIE

Every twentieth family in Croatia looses their apartment or house due to incapability of paying the credit or the overhead expences. The rigorous Seizure Law has enabled banks and other institutions an easier way of gaining a real estate. When the system fails, when a citizen has nowhere to apply and when the unscrupulous administration dislodges them from their flats or houses, then the activists arrive to help and with their bodies prevent the execution of the eviction. The film has recorded the grievous scenes from the very places where the cordons of special police use force to drag away children, women, the young and the old…whose one and only wish is to stay and live in their only home.

Zdenko Jurilj

Zdenko Jurilj was born in 1972 in Široki Brijeg. He studied History and Journalism and in the end came to the world of the «Seventh art». A long reporting career is behind him, covering the development and the aftermath of the situation in the former Yugoslavia as well as South-East Europe. For several years has been working in «Kadar» Production Enterprise in Široki Brijeg as a scriptwriter and director. His documentaries have been screened at several relevant international festivals and have won several awards, and some were played at regional TVs. He directed a doesen of documentaries and promotional films. He worked as a coproducer on awarded feature films.

Title: Home
Year of production: 2017
Duration: 40
Director: Zdenko Jurilj
Screenplay: Zdenko Jurilj
Sound design: Tomislav Topić
Production company: Hrvatski filmski savez, Kadar Film and video production