LFF LAUREAT
Film je na 21. LFF-u osvojio:
- nagradu publike
- nagradu za najbolju fotografiju
- nagradu za najbolju montažu
ABOUT THE MOVIE
Hundreds of frozen and starved people floating on boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea fleeing from the war... Familiar scenes that we are used seeing in recent times. But the year is 1944, and the refugees are traveling from Europe to Africa. After Italian capitulation, and before the arrival of German army, 28 000 Dalmatian Croats left their home villages and towns to live for two years under the tents in the middle of Egyptian desert, in a kind of a communist model village that was formed to show the Allies how the new Yugoslavia will look like when the war ends. This is a story about them.
Ivan Ramljak
Ivan Ramljak (b. 1974) is a film director and independent curator. In 2003, he founded the Human Rights Film Festival Zagreb. From 2013 to 2022, he edited and hosted Short Tuesday, a short film program at the Tuškanac cinema in Zagreb, and from 2016 to 2023, he was the artistic director of the Tabor Film Festival. Since 2022, he has been one of the short film selectors at the Rotterdam Film Festival, as well as a scout for feature films from the former Yugoslavia. So far, he has directed 9 shorts, 1 medium-length film and 3 feature films, mostly of a documentary nature. His films "Islands of Forgotten Cinemas", "Home of the Resistance", "Mezostajun", "Once Upon a Youth" and "El Shatt - Blueprint For Utopia" have been screened at more than 80 festivals around the world (IFFR, Cinéma du Réel, DOK Leipzig, Sarajevo FF, DokuFest...), where they won a number of awards.
