Regional Competition

The Flood

Goran Dević
Screening time  
01.03. / Utorak, 12:00 - 14:00 Dvorana 2  
03.03. / Četvrtak, 20:00 - 22:00 Dvorana 4  
04.03. / Petak, 14:00 - 16:00 Dvorana 4  
Passive parts of Lika, Kosinj and neighboring villages are tormented by floods every twenty years or so, due to heavy rains and snow melting.

Villages, couples of kilometers away from river Lika are under water. The whole region becomes one huge lake where the only communication is possible by boats. Film follows stories of two volunteers during the flood, each of them becomes the only link with the rest of the world for their respective communities, Serbian and Croatian. Slavko, Croatian veteran from the last war considers the flood of biblical proportion to be the God’s punishment for all our sins. Bigger the sin, higher is the water. Milan is the only one in his area with the small child, and he is thinking how everyone expects some help and assistance while there is no one when others need it. Film follows human and inter-religious relations in one small community under completely unusual circumstances.

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Goran Dević

Goran Dević was born in Sisak in 1971. He graduated in Film and TV Directing from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, where he currently works as docent in the Film and TV Directing BA and MA programs. He is the author of award-winning documentary films: On the Water (2018), The Steel Mill Café (2017), 65+ (2016), Two Furnaces for Udarnik Josip Trojko (2012), Don Juan: Excuse Me, Miss (2010), The Flood (2010), Happy Land (2009), Three (2008), I Have Nothing Nice to Say to You (2005), Imported Crows (2004) and others. He is the co-director and co-screenwriter of feature film The Blacks (2009), which won several awards: Grand Prix at Ljubljana International Film Festival 2009, Grand Prix at Auteur Film Festival Serbia 2009, FIPRESCI Award and Special Award for Directing at FilmFestival Cottbus 2009, and Golden Arena for Directing at Pula Film Festival 2009. Retrospectives of his documentaries were screened at Arsenal Berlin and Crossing Europe Filmfestival Linz.

General sponsor

Poplava

Croatia
2010, 42', color, video

Directed by:
Goran Dević

Screenplay by:
Goran Dević

Cinematography:
Jure Cernec, Tamara Cesarec

Edited by:
Vanja Siruček

Music:
Pavao Miholjević, Jura Ferina

Producers:
Hrvoje Osvadić, Goran Dević

Produced by:
Petnaesta umjetnost, CMA - Centar za mirovne studije

Festivals & Awards:

Sarajevo Film Festival 2010 - EDN Talent Grant