/ 2025 / 85min
Synopsis
The story of a unique team in the history of sports that won gold at the 1991 European Championship and stood on the podium, watching the raising of the flag of their country – which ceased to exist three days before.
Stars: Vlade Divac, Jure Zdovc, Zarko Paspalj, Dino Radja, Zoran Jovanovic, Toni Kukoch.
Split, 1985) graduated in film and television directing from theAcademy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. He has participated in numerous internationalfilm workshops, including Berlinale Talents, Sarajevo Talent Campus, Sources 2, and MAIA Workshops. His short films have been screened at over 250 festivals, including major ones suchas Berlinale and Clermont-Ferrand, and have won numerous awards–among them,the Grand Prize at the Rhode Island Film Festival (an Oscar-qualifying festival), theGrand Prix at the Croatian Film Days and Ljubljana Film Festival, as well as awardsin Vilnius, Chicago, Tangier, Drama, and others.His short filmPicnic, for which he wrote the script, directed, and produced, won theprestigiousEuropean Film Academy Awardfor Best European Short Film in 2015.His feature debutMaterpremiered at the Black Nights Festival in Tallinn, after whichit screened at numerous festivals and won multiple awards: Best Regional Film atFEST in Belgrade, four awards at the Pula Film Festival (Best Debut, Best Actress,Best Cinematography, Best Sound Design), the "Oktavijan" Croatian Film Critics'Award for Best Croatian Film of 2020, and prizes at festivals in Taormina, Skopje,Saint-Jean-de-Luz, and others.
