Lithuania, Croatia, Slovenia, Belgium, Norway/ 2021/ 75′
DIRECTED BY: Tiha K. Gudac
SCREENPLAY BY: Tiha K. Gudac, Igor Bašin, Frederik Nicolai
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Darko Herič, Thomas Szacka-Marier
EDITED BY: Thijs Van Nuffel
PRODUCERS: Frederik Nicolai, Ljubo Zdjelarević, Viva Videnović, Karl Emil Rikardsen, Iva Tkalec, Lukas Trimonis
PRODUCED BY: Off World, Kinoteka, URGH!, In_Script, Relation04 Media
FESTIVALS & AWARDS: DOK.fest München 2021, Crossing Europe 2021
By constructing an iron fence, right through the beautiful Kupa region, Slovenia has made Croatia somewhat an unwilling buffer for the influx of the refugees coming from Bosnia, trying to reach Europe. Due to the fence, the tourism activities collapsed and a whole new set of dynamics were generated. The region has become the arena attracting extreme-right nationalists, human rights activists, politicians, police and border forces, migrants and refugees who are trying to reach Europe.
Tiha Gudac, born in 1982 in Zagreb, is a filmmaker based in Croatia, where she works as a director, scriptwriter and a producer. She has a Master’s degree in Film Production and an MA in Business Marketing. As a director, scriptwriter and researcher she works primarily on documentary projects. As a producer she has independently produced and worked on fiction, documentary, and animated films and commercial and TV formats, some of which have received awards. Her directorial debut came with Naked Island (2014), screened at 2015 ZagrebDox, which went on to receive numerous international festival awards, and has had international theatrical, TV and educational distribution. As a guest lecturer she teaches documentary project development and commercial TV production. She is a member of the Croatia Film Directors’ Guild, Film Artists’ Association of Croatia and Croatian Independent Artists Association.