Milan and Silvana live in Medulin, a small coastal town in Croatia. Milan breeds cows on a nearby island, as many have done before him, but Silvana wants much more than that.
Zrinka Matijević Veličan is born in Zagreb in 1973. Studied Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and Film and TV Directing at the Academy of Drama Arts in Zagreb. Filmography: ‘Peščenopolis’ (2004), ‘Of Cows and People’ (2000), ‘Dvoboj’ (1998).
Nebojsa Slijepčević was born in 1973 in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2005, he graduated in Film Directing from the Academy of Drama and Art in Zagreb. He has directed numerous creative documentaries that were widely shown and awarded multiple times at many international festivals. ZagrebDox screened many of his documentaries, following his work closely. He is a three times nominee for Prix Europa Award for his TV documentaries. His first documentary feature, the international co-production Gangster of Love, premiered at Hot Docs and it was one of the biggest box-office successes in Croatia, winning the Audience Award at 2013 ZagrebDox. His latest documentary feature Srbenka (2018) premiered at Visions du Réel and received the Buyens-Chagoll Award, followed by the Heart of Sarajevo for best documentary and the Audence Award at Sarajevo Film Festival and many more. He is also an educator, mentoring and lecturing at Restart's School of Documentary Film in Zagreb.
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O kravama i ljudima
Croatia
2000, 23', color, 16 mm
Directed by:
Zrinka Matijević Veličan, Nebojša Slijepčević
Cinematography:
Jurica Jagetić, Jura Černec
Edited by:
Marina Andree, Staša Čelan
Producer:
Nenad Puhovski
Produced by:
Factum