Thirteen years after the unexpected death of his once best friend, the filmmaker tries to reconstruct his late friend’s life and their friendship, using just the photographs and video material his friend shot back then.
| Producer: |
Academy of Dramatic Arts, Zagreb |
| Director: |
Ivan Ramljak |
| Script: |
Ivan Ramljak |
| Camera: |
Marko Čaklović
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| Editing: |
Ivor Šonje
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| Director of photography: |
Marko Čaklović |
Ivan Ramljak is a director, film critic and independent curator. Since 2013 he is curating a short film program ”Short Tuesday” at cinema Tuškanac in Zagreb, and since 2016 he is the artistic director of Tabor Film Festival. So far, he has directed nine shorts and one medium length film, four of those in collaboration with Marko Škobalj. His most successful film so far was the short documentary ‘Kino otok’ (‘Islands of Forgotten Cinemas’, 2016), which was screened on more than 40 international festivals, and won 6 awards, including the FIPRESCI prize for Best Eastern European dox at goEast FF in Wiesbaden. His first medium length documentary ‘Dom boraca’ (‘Home of the Resistance’) had a world premiere at Cinéma du Réel in 2018 and has been screened on dozen international festivals since. ‘Once Upon a Youth’ is his first feature documentary.
