Greetings from the Secretariat (Pozdrav iz sekretarijata)

Ivan Ramljak

On a paradise island, not everything is as perfect as it seems. A found footage crime film, made out of photographs discovered in a deserted police station, peers behind the warm sunshine and colourful attractions of one of the most popular tourist destinations in Croatia. Spanning decades, and two political systems, the crime scene photographs acquire their own syntax, telling a story of a society and its pathologies.

Croatia 2025, '24

DIRECTOR: Ivan Ramljak

SCENARIO: Ivan Ramljak

MONTAGE: Ivor Šonje

MUSIC: Hrvoje Nikšić (Sound Design)

PRODUCERS: Igor Grubić

PRODUCTION: Kreativni sindikat

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

Beldocs
Dokufest

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.