the verdict
a short documentarty
November 2013 @ Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
Sixteen years after the war, in the main square of Zagreb
several thousand people gathered to watch a live broadcast
of the verdict to Croatian generals.
Through a series of close-ups, the film documents
the eruption of emotions caused by the verdict.
Đuro Gavran was born in 1982 in Bjelovar. He is an MA graduate in film and television directing (course documentary film) at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, which he started in 2009. He graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the University of Zagreb. He is the author of five documentary features (Bojan; Kelts; We Wanted Workers and All We Got Were People; The Big Day; The Verdict) and two experimental films (Glassballetdancer and Our Beautiful Homeland). For his latest film, The Big Day, in 2012 he received a Grand Prix and the Award for Best Directing at the Days of Croatian Film and the Audience Award at the DOKUart festival held in Bjelovar. As a cinematographer he worked on documentary films Above average (dir. Igor Bezinović; Restart prod, 2008), Irreversible (dir. Igor Bezinović, Restart, 2009) and The Blockage (dir. Igor Bezinović, Factum and Restart, 2012). In addition to film, he is involved in other forms of visual art (photography, graphics and installations). He has held three individual and about thirty collaborative national and international exhibitions. Since 2008 he is a member of ULUPUH (Croatian Association of Artists in Applied Arts), multimedia department. Together with Miljenka Čogelja and Boris Vidošević, in 2012 he started Pipser d.o.o., a film production company and a design studio.
Directing
DOCUMENTARY:
2013 - Presuda / The Verdict (doc. 11 min)
2012 - Veliki dan / The Big Day (doc. 52 min)
2011 - Kelti / Celts (doc. 26 min)
2011 - Htjeli smo radnike, a došli su nam ljudi / We wanted workers, we got people (doc. 28 min)
2010 - Bojan / Bojan (doc. 11 min)
EXPERIMENTAL:
2012 - Lijepa naša domovino / Our beautiful homeland (exp. 0'46'')
2005 - Staklena balerina / Glassballetdancer (exp. 1'43'')
TV directing
2012 - Pedala nije šala / Pedal is not a joke (doc. 28 min)
Cinematography
2012 - Blokada / Blocade (doc. 93min)
2009 - Nepovratno / Non-recyclable (doc. 17 min)
2008 - Nadprosječan / Above Average (doc. 19min)
"This is the film that shows close-up portraits of people and emotions on the faces of the citizens that wait pronouncement of the verdict to the general Ante Gotovina. With the skilled eye of the camera the author finds vivid characters and with the help of their physiognomy and great editing he succeeds to transmit the state of the masses."
Mediteranfilm festival 2013 – Best Short"This is a brazenly intelligent film in terms of subject matter, and visually it demonstrates the qualities of an accomplished filmmaker. This film inspires you to ask for more, to plead the author to make a feature-length film as soon as possible."
ZagrebDOX 2013 - Special mention"This is a brazenly intelligent film in terms of subject matter, and visually it demonstrates the qualities of an accomplished filmmaker. This film inspires you to ask for more, to plead the author to make a feature-length film as soon as possible."
ZagrebDOX 2013 - Special mention"This is the film that shows close-up portraits of people and emotions on the faces of the citizens that wait pronouncement of the verdict to the general Ante Gotovina. With the skilled eye of the camera the author finds vivid characters and with the help of their physiognomy and great editing he succeeds to transmit the state of the masses."
Mediteranfilm festival 2013 – Best Short"U filmu nema kadrova ni haškog suda, ni Gotovine, samo lica ljudi koji reagiraju na presudu, ali u cijeloj atmosferi osjeća se puno šira slika današnjeg hrvatskog društva."
vecernji.hr"Dokumentarist Đuro Gavran na ovogodišnjem ZagrebDoxu predstavlja se filmom 'Presuda' koji prati burne emocije ljudi okupljenih na Trgu bana Jelačića prilikom prijenosa prve haške presude hrvatskim generalima. Film je snimljen u jednom danu na dan izricanja prvostupanjske, osuđujuće presude generalima."
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