LFF LAUREATE
- Best Film
- Audience Award
ABOUT THE MOVIE
In 1991, on the outskirts of Tenja, Josip Reihl Kir - the chief of the Osijek Police Department, a man dedicated to negotiations and avoding war - was assassinated. Peacemaker is a story about the last few months of his life, in the dawn of the bloodthirsty Croatian-Serbian war, which Kir had been trying hard to prevent, told through the statements of a few witnesses and archive materials from the era. Still today, after over 30 years, many elements of that assassination remain unclear and the possible contractors - still unknown. Filmmaker Ivan Ramljak is one of the most significant Croatian documentarians, recognisable for his particular approach to historic issues.
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.
Festivals where the film was screened:
- 2025 ZagrebDox (Zagreb, HR) Factumentarci
- 2025 Pula Film Festival (Pula, HR) Croatian programme
- 2025 Cinehill (Fužine, HR) Special projection
Awards and recognitions received:
- 2025 Grand Golden Arena for Best Film Pula Film Festival (Pula, HR)
- 2025 Golden Arena for Best Editing (Damir Čučić) Pula Film Festival (Pula, HR)
- 2025 Audience Award Cinehill (Fužine, HR)
