SKIES,SATELLITES

War in Croatia. One of many prisoners exchange. A man without identity or memories is in one of the trucks. As a result of inadvertent circumstances, he is named Jakov Ribar. From the line of prisoners he wonders off into the minefield. The main character reveals how this “small” war at the end of the millennium is unbearable and awful for him. Only the film images, that the director leads us through, partly explain this confusing situation. Many soldiers and also civilians were involved in collective evil and madness. Numerous destinies and stories are the result of a kind of “diary of bizarre events” that the author kept about the war at the beginning of the nineties. Thus, everything is based on true stories. The film does not strictly belong to the war film genre, and is not a classical narrative. Skies Satellites was filmed at the estuary of the river Neretva into the Adriatic Sea, in the southern part of Croatian Coast.

 

 

Skies, Satellites
ART, 2000
IMDB
Written and Directed by: Lukas Nola
Producer: Robert Jurišić, Ivan Maloča
CO-PRODUCED BY: Croatian radiotelevision
Director of Photography: Darko Šuvak
Production Designer: Velimir Domitrović
Costume Designer: Ksenija Jeričević
Editor: Slaven Zečević
Music by: Legen

Duration: 85'
Aspect Ratio: 1 : 1.66
Sound: optical, Dolby SR

world sales: Interfilm



Cast

Filip Nola Jakov
Filip Šovagović Uzelac
Barbara Nola Lucija
Rene Bitorajac Commander
Leon Lučev Johnny
Ivo Gregurević škaricic
Goran Grgić Senna
Lucija Serbedžija Iva
Leona Paraminski Jelena
Predrag Vušović Hans
Ksenija Marinković Ugrina Mrvica

Awards

AFI FEST LOS ANGELES, USA, 2001
- THE KODAK VISION AWARD IN CINEMATOGRAPHY

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL MANNHEIM-HEILDEBERG, GERMANY, 2001
- SPECIAL JURY AWARD FOR DIRECTING

FESTIVAL MADRIDIMAGEN, SPAIN, 2001
- MOST INNOVATING IMAGE AWARD

PULA FILM FESTIVAL, 2000
- GOLDEN ARENA FOR BEST DIRECTOR
- GOLDEN ARENA FOR BEST PHOTOGRAPHY
- GOLDEN ARENA FOR BEST COSTUMES
- GOLDEN ARENA FOR BEST SOUND DESIGN
- OCTAVIAN, FILM CRITIC'S AWARD FOR BEST FILM

Festivals

MEDITERRANEAN FILM FESTIVAL COLOGNE, GERMANY, 2001

LJUBLJANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, SLOVENIA, 2001

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2002

OFF-FILM FESTIVAL MOSTAR, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, 2002

BALKAN BLACK BOX FESTIVAL, GERMANY, 2004