SAFE HOUSE
Three policemen guard a witness repentant in an abandoned warehouse. Their job is to watch him until the morning when the morning shift will take over, but the witness persuades them that “those who are coming” intend to kill not only him, but all four of them. Their paranoia grows when they find out the witness is familiar with some details from their black pasts which are known only by their close accomplices. They punish each of his stories from the past by beating him up. When the morning comes, the policemen are drunk and confused, and the witness is all covered in blood…
STRAIGHT TO THE BOTTOM
It’s a Sunday morning in the summer of 1994 in Zagreb. Tom, a kind of neighbourhood legend, decides to walk to a cafe where his friend Špiro works. But, as the day goes by, Tom is more and more convinced that he should have stayed in bed… Things become complicated when a local loser, Jura, bursts into the cafe armed with a gun. He couldn’t wait for the tram to come, so he decided to rob a cafe in his neighbourhood. The situation calms down a little when Vanja, a former high school beauty comes, but definitely boils up when Žiga, a local bully, who is also a policeman, comes in for cigarettes and a drink.
Throughout the film, we meet other local characters: a nervous war veteran Maki; a resentful Bad Blue Boy Deni; a nurd Truli and his diabolic grandma: Vanja’s ex-boyfriend ‘crimus vulgaris’ Žuti; Žiga’s hysterical wife; a former small dealer, and now a proud father Tihomir…
Cast
Awards
PULA FILM FESTIVAL, 2002
'BREZA'award for the newcomer of the year
SAFE HOUSE
Days of Croatian Film, 2002
Newcomer of the Year Award
Best cinematography award
STRAIGHT TO THE BOTTOM
Days of Croatian Film, 2002
'OKTAVIJAN' Award for Best Middle- Length Feature Film
SOLOTHURN FILM FESTIVAL, 2005
Festivals
SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL, 2004
PULA FILM FESTIVAL, 2002
SAFE HOUSE
Days of Croatian Film, 2002
STRAIGHT TO THE BOTTOM
Days of Croatian Film, 2002
SOLOTHURN FILM FESTIVAL, 2005