A Very Brief Excursion

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Igor Bezinović201415:51

Feature Art Short length

Although Roko seems to know where he is going, it starts to become clear we are lost. In spite of this, I think it is best to keep going. That song by America, We Had No Real Summer Last Year comes back to me.

Igor Bezinović

Igor Bezinović is a filmmaker born in Rijeka, which is now part of Croatia, but at that time belonged to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, before that partly the Kingdom of Italy and partly the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (and before that the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes), before that the Free State of Fiume, before that the Italian Regency of Carnaro, before that Austria-Hungary… His films include The Blockade (Oktavijan prize for best Croatian documentary in 2012), Veruda (Oktavijan prize for best Croatian documentary in 2015) and A Brief Excursion (Big Golden Arena prize for best Croatian feature in 2017), along with many shorts of all shapes and sizes. His work has been shown internationally at events including IFF Rotterdam, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, CPH:DOX, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Venice Biennale of Architecture (with Hrvoslava Brkušić for Pulska grupa), Museum of the Moving Image, Viennale and the Guanajuato IFF. He graduated in film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and in Philosophy, Sociology and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He is a member of The Croatian Film Directors’ Guild and the judo club Black Belt.

Production: MonFilmFest

Director: Igor Bezinović

Cast: Ante Zlatko Stolica, Mladen Vujčić

Producer: Igor Bezinović

Screenplay: Ante Zlatko Stolica

Sound Design: Hrvoje Nikšić

Cinematography: Danko Vučinović

Editing: Hrvoslava Brkušić

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