Regional Competition

Veruda – A Film About Bojan

Igor Bezinović
Screening time  
24.02. / Tuesday, 14:00 - 16:00 Theatre 3  
27.02. / Friday, 18:00 - 20:00 Theatre 3  
28.02. / Saturday, 15:00 - 17:00 Theatre 2  
01.03. / Sunday, 12:00 - 14:00 Theatre 3  
01.03. / Sunday, 18:00 - 20:00 Theatre 4  
01.03. / Sunday, 20:00 - 22:00 Theatre 5  
01.03. / Sunday, 22:00 - 00:00 Theatre 2  
A story about 24-year-old Bojan.

Bojan is 24. He spent four and a half years of his life in prisons in Turopolje, Sisak, Glina, Remetinec, Pula, Zagreb and Rijeka. He spent 20 years of his life in the Pula neighbourhood called Veruda.

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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 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.

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Veruda – film o Bojanu

Croatia
2015, 34'

Directed by:
Igor Bezinović

Screenplay by:
Igor Bezinović, Leon Rizmaul, Slobodan Uzelac

Cinematography:
Tomislav Trumbetaš

Edited by:
Hrvoslava Brkušić

Music:
Shadow MC

Producers:
Leon Rizmaul, Robert Tomić Zuber, Vedran Bilić

Produced by:
HRT