23.LFF
Opatija
26.-30.08.2025.

Film

Postcards

LFF17, Off program, Out of competition

ABOUT THE MOVIE

A series of unusual short audiovisual portraits of Croatian towns in which peculiar native dialects and languages are spoken, made by a group of authors driven by quirky and unconventional patriotism.

Igor Bezinović

Igor Bezinović is a filmmaker born in Rijeka, which is now part of Croatia, but at that time belonged to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, before that partly the Kingdom of Italy and partly the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (and before that the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes), before that the Free State of Fiume, before that the Italian Regency of Carnaro, before that Austria-Hungary… His films include The Blockade (Oktavijan prize for best Croatian documentary in 2012), Veruda (Oktavijan prize for best Croatian documentary in 2015) and A Brief Excursion (Big Golden Arena prize for best Croatian feature in 2017), along with many shorts of all shapes and sizes. His work has been shown internationally at events including IFF Rotterdam, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, CPH:DOX, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Venice Biennale of Architecture (with Hrvoslava Brkušić for Pulska grupa), Museum of the Moving Image, Viennale and the Guanajuato IFF. He graduated in film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and in Philosophy, Sociology and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He is a member of The Croatian Film Directors’ Guild and the judo club Black Belt.

www.igorbezinovic.net

Hrvoslava Brkušić

Born in 1982, Hrvoslava graduated film editing at the Academy of Dramatic arts in Zagreb and holds a MA at the Department for animation and new media at the Academy of fine arts, Zagreb. As a film editor, she contributed to the series of documentary, feature and experimental films such as documentary film The Blockade directed by Igor Bezinović about students’ protests and a struggle for free education, and video-work by same director entitled “Unmediated democracy demands unmediated Space” in collaboration with Pula group in the framework of Architecture Biennale in Venice.

Darovan Tušek

Darovan Tušek was born in Split in 1981. After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb he continues to work as an architect in Zagreb and Split. He also works as assistant at the Faculty for Architecture and author of architecture magazines. In February 2013, he finished Restart's School of Documentary Films and after continued working as a documentary author at Restart Laboratory.

Katerina Duda

Katerina Duda (1989) mastered Animated film and New Media at the Academy of Fine arts, and she mastered Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. Lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

Ivana Pipal

Ivana Pipal (1990) is a freelance visual artist working in the medium of drawing, in illustration, animation, comic books, art books, design, installation, video and film. She earned her MA in Animated Film and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Ivana is also a member of the art collective Lovers, whose work is based on collaborations with scientists and the artistic interpretation of that process. Since 2014, they have presented a series of installations and exhibitions.

Ante Zlatko Stolica

Ante Zlatko Stolica was born in 1985 in Split. He graduated in Croatian Studies and Philosophy from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He is the author of several short films (documentary and feature). He co-wrote and has a leading role in the fiction film "A Very Brief Excursion", directed by Igor Bezinović, winner of the Golden Arena for Best film in 2017. He is the author of the short story collection "Close to Everything" (Fraktura, 2020). He lives and works in Zagreb.

Title: Postcards
Year of production: 2019
Duration: 60
Screenplay: Igor Bezinović
Production company: Studio Pangolin (za HRT)