DIRECTOR: Ivona Juka
STARRING: Slaven Doslo, Dado Cosic, Elmir Krivalic
RUNNING TIME: 2 hrs 0 minutes
LANGUAGE: Croatian
Four young queer students drop out of college to join the Partisans. After the war, they are all established film artists. In 1957, while they are making their latest movie, censors ban a scene depicting the dissatisfaction of the army, and they are offered "rehabilitation" through making propaganda pictures.
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Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day is the latest film from director Ivona Juka. Juka’s previous feature film, You Carry Me, premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in 2015 and was subsequently screened at over 20 international film festivals, winning 17 awards. She now wrote and directed her latest film, which is yet to have its world-wide premiere. The film’s working title was Strangers in the Night and it received a €5,000 prize at Cologne’s European Work In Progress awards.
The Croatian Society of Film Workers’ Commission have selected the film Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day from four contenders. The other films were Only When I Laugh, Sweet Simona, and The Holy Family.
The film was produced by Anita Juka, under the 4Film production company. It was co-produced with Canada, Poland, Cyprus, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and was supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe, the Adris Foundation, Telefilm Canada, Ontario Creates, the Ministry of Culture – Cyprus Film Department, and the Sarajevo and Tuzla Canton Film Funds.
Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day is a drama.
To check out all previous submissions for Croatia, click HERE.
STARRING: Slaven Doslo, Dado Cosic, Elmir Krivalic
RUNNING TIME: 2 hrs 0 minutes
LANGUAGE: Croatian
Four young queer students drop out of college to join the Partisans. After the war, they are all established film artists. In 1957, while they are making their latest movie, censors ban a scene depicting the dissatisfaction of the army, and they are offered "rehabilitation" through making propaganda pictures.
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Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day is the latest film from director Ivona Juka. Juka’s previous feature film, You Carry Me, premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in 2015 and was subsequently screened at over 20 international film festivals, winning 17 awards. She now wrote and directed her latest film, which is yet to have its world-wide premiere. The film’s working title was Strangers in the Night and it received a €5,000 prize at Cologne’s European Work In Progress awards.
The Croatian Society of Film Workers’ Commission have selected the film Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day from four contenders. The other films were Only When I Laugh, Sweet Simona, and The Holy Family.
The film was produced by Anita Juka, under the 4Film production company. It was co-produced with Canada, Poland, Cyprus, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and was supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe, the Adris Foundation, Telefilm Canada, Ontario Creates, the Ministry of Culture – Cyprus Film Department, and the Sarajevo and Tuzla Canton Film Funds.
Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day is a drama.
To check out all previous submissions for Croatia, click HERE.
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