TIME MACHINE
EL SHATT – A BLUEPRINT FOR UTOPIA
DIRECTOR: Ivan Ramljak
COUNTRY: Croatia
YEAR/DURATIONE: 2023. • 96′
GENRE: documentary
Info
- SCREENPLAY: Ivan Ramljak
- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Boris Poljak
- EDITOR: Jelena Maksimović
- SOUND: Vladimir Živković
- PRODUCER: Tibor Keser
- CO-PRODUCERS: Iva Plemić-Divjak, Mladen Kovačević, Sunčica Fradelić
- CO-PRODUCTION: Horopter Film Production (Serbia), Kino klub Split (Croatia)
Synopsis
Hundreds of frozen and starved people floating on boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea fleeing from the war… Familiar scenes that we are used to seeing in recent times. But the year is 1944, and the refugees are travelling from Europe to Africa. After Italian capitulation, and before the arrival of German army, 28.000 Dalmatian Croats left their home villages and towns to live for two years under the tents in the middle of Egyptian desert, in a kind of a communist model village that was formed to show the Allies how the new Yugoslavia will look like when the war ends. This is a story about them.
Festivals and awards
Mediterranean Film Festival Split 2023 ― Special Mention and Audience Award
Foršpan
About the director
Ivan Ramljak (1974) is a film director and independent curator. In 2003 he founded the Human Rights Film Festival in Zagreb. From 2013 to 2022 he was the editor of Short Tuedsay, a short film program at Tuškanac Cinema in Zagreb. Since 2016, he has been the artistic director of the Tabor Film Festival, the oldest festival of short films in Croatia, and since 2022 he has been working as a programmer for the International Film Festival in Rotterdam. His films have been screened at more than 80 international festivals around the world (Cinéma du réel, DOK Leipzig, Sarajevo Film Festival, Dokufest, GoEast…) and won several awards.
Screening
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- VALLI CINEMA – SATURDAY 22.7.2023.
19:30
- VALLI CINEMA – SATURDAY 22.7.2023.
ULAZ SLOBODAN
