Short Pula - Short Documentary Films

Because of his loyalty to the pope, he became enemy number one to Marshal Tito, and the West perceived him as the symbol of resistance to communism in Europe. The film sheds light on how Archbishop Cardinal Stepinac dealt with the challenges of the two totalitarian systems: national-socialism and communism, and how Stepinac, the man, bore the consequences of his choices. Why is his canonisation causing controversy today?

Croatia | 2020 | 86’
documentary

DIRECTOR Višnja Starešina | SCREENPLAY Višnja Starešina | CINEMATOGRAPHY Vjekoslav Vrdoljak | EDITOR Veljko Segarić | SOUND Davor Omerza | SCORE Mate Matišić | PRODUCER Ivan Maloča | COMPANY Interfilm | DISTRIBUTION Blitz d.o.o.

Višnja Starešina (Zorkovac, 1960) is a journalist, writer, screenwriter, and director of documentary films. She is the screenwriter and director of feature documentary films The Third Campaign (2009), about the activities of al-Qaida in Bosnia and Herzegovina; The Silenced Voice (2010), about the reporter of Croatian Radio Vukovar, Siniša Glavašević, who was executed and buried in the Ovčara mass grave following the fall of Vukovar; and People’s Enemy, a film about the communist repression in former Yugoslavia and Croatia.