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Presuda (The Verdict )

Đuro Gavran
11' / 2013 / Croatia
Web: http://theverdict.pipser.hr
Croatian
English and spanish subtitled

Audience vote 5.69

Sixteen years after the war, in the main square of Zagreb several thousand people gathered to watch a live broadcast of the verdict to Croatian generals. Through a series of close-ups, the film documents the eruption of emotions caused by the verdict.

Main Festivals & Awards

Mediteran film festival - Best Short
Liburnija film festival - Best Director
Sarajevo film festival - EDN talent grand
ZAGREBDOX 2013 - Special Mention
Sarjevo Film Festival*
ZagrebDOX international documentary film festival *
Mediteran film festival *
Liburnija film festival *

Rotterdam IFF 2013 - world premiere / Docudays UA in Kiev / Dani hrvatskog filma / 10th IndieLisboa - Lisbon International Independent Film Festival / FEST - new film - new filmmakers / Tabor Film Festival / New Horizons IFF / Guanajuato film festival / Dokufest Prizren / Milano Film Festival / Split film festival / Dokuart / Astra Film Festival / DokumentART / Impakt Panorama / Coisa de Cinema International Panorama / Balkans Beyond Borders / DOK Leipzig / Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival / Watchdox film festival

* award

Director's Biography

Đuro Gavran was born in 1982 in Bjelovar. He graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagrebt in Maof film and television directing. He graduated also from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the University of Zagreb.
He is the author of five documentary features (Bojan; Kelts; We Wanted Workers and All We Got Were People; The Big Day; The Verdict) and two experimental films (Glassballetdancer and Our Beautiful Homeland). As a cinematographer he worked on documentary films Above average (dir. Igor Bezinović; Restart prod, 2008), Irreversible (dir. Igor Bezinović, Restart, 2009) and The Blockage (dir. Igor Bezinović, Factum and Restart, 2012).
In addition to film, he is involved in other forms of visual art (photography, graphics and installations). He has held three individual and about thirty collaborative national and international exhibitions.
Since 2008 he is a member of ULUPUH (Croatian Association of Artists in Applied Arts), multimedia department.
Together with Miljenka Čogelja and Boris Vidošević, in 2012 he started Pipser d.o.o., a film production company and a design studio.

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