Peacemaker

Ivan Ramljak

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.

Croatia 2025, '99

DIRECTOR: Ivan Ramljak

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 shown at more than 80 festivals around the world (IFFR, Cinéma du réel, Dok Leipzig, Sarajevo, Dokufest...), where they won a number of awards.

Peacemaker

Ivan Ramljak

Ivan Ramljak

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