DoXXL presents Vinko Brešan Author's Night

Even though Vinko Brešan is better known in the public for his fiction work, ZagrebDox has decided to present his documentary mish-mash, consisting of two short (The Corridor and Our Stock Exchange) and one feature film documents (Radio 101’s Independence Day). Vinko Brešan – this year’s international jury member – is attending all the screenings and discussing with the audience about his work, methods and film recipes.

The DoXXL section organises Vinko Brešan Author’s Night, which screens Brešan’s feature documentary Radio 101’s Independence Day, which reveals the background and series of events at the time of the biggest protest in recent Croatian history. On 21 November 1996, more than 100,000 people protested in Ban Jelačić Square against the termination of Radio 101. There is also the short documentary film The Corridor, made in the corridors of Zagreb’s Municipal Court, in which litigators speak about the reasons of their trials and court proceedings, and Our Stock Exchange – a satirical portrayal of the Zagreb Employment Service in the late 1980s, when the Croatian capital in former Yugoslavia had a high unemployment rate.

Screenings and Q&A with the director are scheduled for Friday, 27 Feburary, 7pm (theatre 1).

Vinko Brešan was born 1964 in Zagreb. He studied comparative literature and philosophy at the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and film and TV directing at the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art. In 1994 and 1995 he won the Oktavijan Award at the Days of Croatian Film for his short documentary films Zajednički ručak and Hodnik. His debut low-budget fiction film How the War on My Island Started was the second highest grossing film in Croatian cinemas, after Titanic, since 1990. His fiction films Marshal (1999) and Witnesses (2003) won festival awards in Berlin and Karlovy Vary, and his fourth fiction film Will Not End Here (2008) won the FIPRESCI Award in Karlovy Vary. The film The Priest’s Children (2013) was the most viewed Croatian film in the 21st century, nominated for the European Academy Award. He also does stage directing. His play Pljuska, written by Nenad Stazić, won at the 1999 Satire Days in Zagreb, and Mirisi, zlato i tamjan was named the cultural event of the Rijeka Summer Nights in 2005. Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja, directed by Brešan, won at the 2014 Satire Days. He is the managing director of Zagreb film.