Regional Competition

The Steel Mill Café

Goran Dević
Screening time  
27.02. / Monday, 19:00 - 21:00 Theatre 2  
28.02. / Tuesday, 15:00 - 17:00 Theatre 2  
01.03. / Wednesday, 14:00 - 16:00 Theatre 5  
The documentary records café conversations of the owners a week before closing the café for good.

Erna and Dževad own a bus stop bar by the entrance to once one of the largest ironworks in Eastern Europe. The 'pub talks' filmed by observation technique the last week before the bar's final closure reveal former socialist labourers' new utopia - how to get hold of Germany, the only remaining paradise on earth.

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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

Buffet Željezara

Croatia
2017, 61'

Directed by:
Goran Dević

Screenplay by:
Goran Dević

Cinematography:
Vedran Rapo

Edited by:
Vladimir Gojun

Producer:
Hrvoje Osvadić

Produced by:
Petnaesta umjetnost