WORLD PREMERE

DIRECTOR Branko Ištvančić

SCREENPLAY Josip Mlakić
DOP Branko Cahun
EDITING Veljko Segarić
ART DIRECTOR Zvonko Sarić
COSTUMES Felicita Glavaš
MUSIC Dalibor Grubačević
SOUND Ivica Drnić
MAKE-UP Bianka Žugelj

ACTRESS IN LEADING ROLE Sanja Radišić
ACTOR IN LEADING ROLE Aleksandar Bogdanović
ACTRESSES IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Jelena Perčin, Nela Kocsis, Rada Mrkšić, Jelena Jokić
ACTORS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Slaven Knezović, Vlatko Dulić, Slobodan Ćustić, Boro Stjepanović, Miralem Zubčević, Đorđe Kukuljica, Ivan Brkić, Nikša Kušelj, Darko Milas, Mile Ognjenović, Bora Nenić

RODUCER Irena Škorić
PRODUCTION Artizana film
CO-PRODUCERS Goran Radman, Petar Jevtić, Almir Šahinović, Zoran Tasić
CO-PRODUCTION Croatian Radiotelevision – HRT (HR), Kinematografska kuća (RS), HEFT (BA), Dari films (FR)

When the Croatian War of Independence ended, Bosnian Croats whose villages had been destroyed in the fighting were forced to relocate. They were rehoused in the homes of Croatian Serbs who had left Croatia. Now, the Serbian owners are returning and the Croatian residents are facing an uncertain future. Somewhere in this powder keg atmosphere, an old man called Jozo, a Bosnian Croat, disappears without a trace. The police officer Filip, who also lives in a Serbian house, is entrusted with the case. Everyone believes that a returning Serb has murdered Jozo, but Filip launches a detailed investigation, determined to be unbiased and fair, even though he has his own ghosts from the past to deal with.

Branko Ištvančić (1967, Subotica) graduated film and TV direction in 1999 at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. Deeply enrooted in the Croatian documentary tradition, he pays special attention to the humane, but also humoristic, treatment of his subjects (Wellman, The Cormorant Scarecrow). His debut The Ghost in the Swamp (2006) marked the comeback of feature-length films for children which have not been made by the Croatian film industry for the last twenty years. Films: From Grain to Painting (2012), Album (2011), The Ghost in the Swamp (2006), Wellman (2003), The Cormorant Scarecrow (1998).

DIRECTOR Pavol Pekarčík, Ivan Ostrochovský, Peter Kerekes

SCREENPLAY Pavol Pekarčík, Ivan Ostrochovský, Peter Kerekes
DOP Martin Kollár
EDITOR Marek Šulík, Zuzana Cséplö
MUSIC Marián Čurko
SOND Tobiaš Potočný, Peter Lendĕl

PRODUCER Peter Kerekes
PRODUCTION Peter Kerekes s.r.o.
CO-PRODUCER Filip Remunda, Siniša Juričić
CO-PRODUCTION Nukleus film (HR), Hypermarket Film (TZ)
SALES Deckert Distribution GmbH

Velvet Terrorists is a film about minor and foiled terrorist plots. The film focuses on three protangonists. The first one wanted to blow up a decorated stage during a May 1st celebration in the 1970s. The second one planned to assassinate the president and start an anticommunist revolution but his letter to the CIA was so naive that nobody bothered to reply. The third one blew up communist billboards. This film is about our relative views of history and the perspectives from which we can interpret these indi-viduals and their actions.

Ivan Ostrochovsky (1972, Žilina) graduated in documentary filmmaking from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. Films: Ilja (2010), A Screenplay to a Documentary Film (2001), Pietro Pascalo (2000).

Pavol Pekarčík (1972, Spišská Sobota) graduated in documentary filmmaking from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. Films (with I. Ostrochovsky): Uli Blaho (2008), Karakorum (2005), Lesser Evil (2004), Wind (2004).

Peter Kerekes (1973, Košice) graduated in film directing from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. Films: Cooking History (2009), 66 Seasons (2003), Morytats and Legends of Ladomira (1998).

FESTIVALS (2014) Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary (FEDEORA award), Berlinale (Tagesspiegel award), ZagrebDox