ABOUT THE MOVIE
A poetic documentary about the lost film culture in the small villages on the Croatian islands during the second half of the last century. Six witnesses of the time are remembering their favorite films and events related to their viewing and screening experiences, which marked their lives.
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.
