Tiger Award, FIPRESCI Award, International Film Festival of Rotterdam 2025
In 1919 the Italian poet, dandy and preacher of war Gabriele DAnnunzio occupied the city of Fiume. The citizens of Fiume, today called Rijeka, retell and reinterpret the bizarre story about the 16-month occupation of their city in a brutally factual yet defiantly punk cinematic journey.
Igor Bezinović is a filmmaker born in Rijeka, which is now part of Croatia, but at that time belonged to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated in Film Directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, and in Philosophy, Sociology and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. His films include The Blockade (Oktavijan prize for Best Croatian Documentary 2012), Veruda (Oktavijan prize for Best Croatian Documentary 2015) and A Brief Excursion (Big Golden Arena prize for Best Croatian Feature 2017), along with many shorts of all shapes and sizes. His work has been shown internationally at events including IFFR, DOK Leipzig, Ji.hlava IDFF, CPH:DOX, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Venice Biennale of Architecture (with Hrvoslava Brkušić for Pulska grupa), and Museum of the Moving Image.
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