The Blacks / Crnci
Croatia , 2009.

Directed by: Zvonimir Juriæ, Goran Deviæ
Script: Zvonimir Juriæ, Goran Deviæ
Producer: Ankica Juriæ Tiliæ
Production company: Kinorama, HRT
Cinematography: Branko Linta
Editing: Vanja Siruæek
Music: Jura Ferlina, Pavao Miholjeviæ
Cast: Ivo Gregureviæ, Krešimir Mikiæ, Rakan Rushaidat, Nikša Butijer, Emir Hadžihafizbegoviæ, Stjepan Pete, Saša Anoèiæ

Format: 35mm
Running time: 78'

Synopsis
During the war in a city under the siege a platoon in charge of dirty jobs, the Blacks, has to be dismembered due to the truce signing. The commander of the platoon, Ivo, prepares the action of recovering his three soldiers' bodies from the woods, and while at it he wants to blow up a dam to cause damage to the enemy, despite the truce. Surviving soldiers, Darko, Barišiæ, Franjo and Šaran, tortured by their own guilt and doubts, go on the assignment only to find the enemy where they least expected it – in themselves.

Awards
56. Pula Film Festival - Golden Arena for best director, Golden Arena for best supporting actor - Nikša Butijer, Special Golden Arena for sound

Directors Biography
Zvonimir Juriæ was born in Osijek in 1971. He graduated film and TV directing from the Academy of Drama Art in Zagreb in 1999. His directing career begins with the award winning documentaries ‘Sky over Osijek’ (Oktavijan award and Days of Croatian Film award), ‘Juriæ: Tvrða 1999’ and ‘The Blacks Endured, and Me?’. His first feature film is ‘The One Who Will Remain Unnoticed’ (Award Breza for the best debut on Pula Film Festival), followed by the second part of the omnibus ‘Sex, Booze and Short Fuse’ and ‘Yellow Moon’, a part of the omnibus ‘Zagreb Stories’.
Goran Deviæ was born i Sisak in 1971. He graduated film and TV directing from the Academy of Drama Art in Zagreb where he works as an art assistant. He has made documentaries ‘Imported Craws’(awarded on about twenty festivals), ‘I Have Nothing Nice to Tell You’, ‘3’ and ‘Happy Land’. He is the founder and producer of the production house Petnaesta Umjetnost. ‘The Blacks’, which he wrote and directed with Zvonimir Juriæ, is his feature film debut.

Location and screening schedule:
SC Cinema, Wednesday, October 21st at 11.00
SC Cinema, Wednesday, October 21st at 22.30
EUROPA Cinema, Thursday, October 22nd at 17.00