Djuro Gavran
Đuro Gavran was born in 1982 in Bjelovar. He is an MA graduate in film and television directing (course documentary film) at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, which he started in 2009. He graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the University of Zagreb. In addition to film, he is involved in other forms of visual art (photography, graphics and installations). He has held three individual and about thirty collaborative national and international exhibitions. Since 2008 he is a member of ULUPUH (Croatian Association of Artists in Applied Arts), multimedia department. Together with Miljenka Čogelja and Boris Vidošević, in 2012 he started Pipser d.o.o., a film production company and a design studio.
Films
- The Verdict / Presuda11'
According to Clausewitz, war is the continuation of politics by other means. 16 years after the war the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague sentences the Croatian general Ante Gotovina to 24 years’ imprisonment for war crimes against Serbian civilians. On the streets people sing a fervent a love-song for their hero, then are stunned when the loudspeakers announce his sentence. They weep, defiantly, angrily, and one declares war. The crowd chants “Fight, fight, fight! Fight for our people!” A year later the Tribunal reverses the verdict and finds him not guilty on all counts. Ante Gotovina is a free man and is given honorary citizenship of the city of Split. Since Roman times it is said that before the courts and on the high seas we are in God’s hands.
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