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CROATIAN FILM

DIRECTOR: Elvis Lenić

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WORLD PREMIERE

COUNTRY: Croatia

YEAR/DURATION: 2023. • 65′

documentary

Info

SCREENPLAY: Elvis Lenić
PHOTOGRAPHY: Elvis Lenić
EDITOR: Matija Debeljuh
SOUND: Bojan Kondres
PRODUCER: Dijana Cetina Mlađenović
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Kinematograf
DISTRIBUTION: Kinematograf

Synopsis

After more than 160 years of existence and numerous magnificent ships that sailed from its facility, the Pula shipyard “Uljanik” became a graveyard of abandoned workshops, steel wrecks and unmovable cranes. In this post-apocalypse landscape, which today is inhabited by loud seagulls, half-starved cats and crayfish, we are caught up with the emotional testimonies of former workers.

This film pays homage to all of the families whose members were linked to this shipyard for generations.

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About the director

Elvis Lenić (1971) graduated in mechanical engineering from the Faculty of Engineering in Rijeka. He worked at the Uljanik shipyard for a while, and now teaches mechanical engineering at the Technical School in Pula. He is a resident film critic at Glas Istre and occasionally writes for the Croatian Film Chronicle. He has directed a number of short and mid-length documentary films.