Movies: Damir Čučić

As a coping mechanism during the grim lockdowns during the global pandemic, Croatian filmmaker Damir Čučić started a project of exchanging video clips with a group of friends through social media. Superbly edited, The Rain Will Weep is created from t...

This documentary was made to mark the 50th anniversary of the broadcast of the cult series Gruntovčani. By analyzing the character of Dudek, the film reminds us that in our own lives, consciously or unconsciously, we often take on the characteristics...

Mitch is an artist, Mitch is schizophrenic. That’s what he claims, facing the camera. And Mitch is his self-portrait, showing a man of 40 who uses the camera and film as a form of therapy. So (a decisive gesture here) this is about reversing perspect...

Cities I Haven’t Been To is an abstract travelogue that traces the skylines of unknown metropolises, taking the viewer on a virtual journey from Dubai to Dhaka and beyond. Unlike tourist postcards, these mental images stem from the filmmaker’s own me...

In 2016, the ex-Yugoslav Navy flagship Vis was deliberately sunk in order to turn it into a scuba diving attraction in Croatia. The ship lies on the seabed of the waters close to Brijuni Islands where in 1956 Nasser, Nehru and Tito met to discuss the...

Oleg is a film student who leads a spartan life surrounded by analogue technology. A librarian during daytime, Marta is an avant-garde novelist who works with alternate subjectivity. Narrated from each of their perspectives, Čučić’s film recounts a r...

Vojin, a blind author of radio docudramas, invites protagonists of his shows to meet him at an isolated hotel in the off-season. He records conversations with them where he captures, with architectural precision, the ruins of their traumatic childhoo...

Agrokor is the largest privately owned company in Croatia and a symbol of modern-day success of Croatian economy. The corporation headquarters is located in the tower of Dražen Petrović House, popularly known as the Cibona Tower, which represents one...

An intimate drama in which the boundaries between subjective and objective realities intertwine. A mother spends a day at the pool with her daughter. After the child slips briefly out of sight, the the tranquil, blue water transforms into a whirlpool...

Father and son review the problems in their communication that have been accumulating in years. The son cannot get rid of fears that his life is being a true copy of his father's projections of his future, so he shoots a video letter with his amateur...

In Croatia in 2005, a machine tools factory was occupied by its workers. Since then, they have operated collectively, becoming the only successful example of a worker occupation in post-socialist Europe. Today, as they seek a new model of collective ...

A poetic documentary about the lost film culture in the small villages on the Croatian islands during the SFR of Yugoslavia....

Animals from Eastern Europe for the Italian food/meat industry used to be transported to the towns along the state border in Northeast Italy. From those conveyor-belt spaces of death, only one animal managed to come in and out alive....

In the spring of 1992, multimedia artist Ivan Faktor travels from war-struck Osijek to Copenhagen. To inform Danes of the ongoing war, his team appears on Stop TV, the most important independent TV station in Denmark. Faktor films the entire trip, hi...

Dreaming of better lands, from generation to generation, because of poverty, hunger and wars, we voyage across the seas. Geography is destiny. Do our bodies retain the memories of our grandfathers; are memories of running away in search of better lan...

“Mezostajun” is an experimental documentary film, exploring spatiotemporal relations in a Mediterranean city in which the role of city’s public spaces in people’s lives varies greatly, depending on the season of the year. Elements of summer and winte...

Roko and Mirela are friends from Split. A big music festival is taking place in the city and Mirela wants to go....

Mario Haber was a sound engineer and a dedicated brandy maker. For over a decade, he had been recording colorful conversations and sounds in his house and around the alcohol fermenter. The Spirits Diary is a visual reconstruction of his audio recordi...

The film is based on an optical experiment with point light sources and appropriate filters. During the experiment, light passes through the obstacle and the obstacle is the human hand. The movements of the hands and fingers in front of the lens crea...