CROATIAN FILM
BEAUTIFUL EVENING, BEAUTIFUL DAY
DIRECTOR: Ivona Juka
COUNTRY: HR
YEAR/DURATION: 2024. • 137′
drama
Info
- SCREENPLAY: Ivona Juka
- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Dragan Ruljančić
- EDITOR: Nenad Pirnat, Nina Velnić
- PRODUCTION DESIGN: Zvonko Sarić
- COSTUME DESIGN: Goranka Krpan
- SOUND: Jane Tattersall
- SCORE: Michael Brook
- MAKE-UP: Ana Bulajić-Črček
- SPECIAL EFFECTS: Zvonimir Krivec
- VISUAL EFFECTS: Joanna Andrecka, Bartosz Przybytek, Piotr Grabarczyk, Christos Markides, Paolo Antypas, Mike Charalambous, Valentino Laz, Prasanna Paul, Jon Campfens, Jeff Bruneel
- LEAD ACTORS: Dado Ćosić, Emir Hadžihafizbegović
- SUPPORTING ACTRESSES: Anja Šovagović Despot, Ivana Boban, Matija Prskalo, Asja Jovanović
- SUPPORTING ACTORS: Elmir Krivalić, Marko Braić, Slaven Došlo, Đorđe Galić, Vojislav Brajović, Dražen Čuček, Svetozar Cvetković, Goran Grgić, Boris Svrtan, Enes Vejzović
- CASTING DIRECTOR: Tomo Škec
- DEBUTANTS: actors: Đorđe Galić, Ivana Boban
- PRODUCER: Anita Juka
- PRODUCTION COMPANY: 4film
- CO-PRODUCERS: Michael A. Dobbin, Magdalena Zimecka, Constantinos Nikiforou, Jasmin Duraković, Angelina A. Duraković
- CO-PRODUCED BY: Quiet Revolution Pictures (CA), Studio Produkcyjne ORKA (PL), Caretta Films (CY), DEPO d.o.o. (HR)
- DISTRIBUTION: Duplicato Media
Festivals and awards
Croatian official submission for the 97th Academy Awards
Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature
FilmFestival Cottbus 2025 – Best Feature Film, Audience Award, Award for Outstanding Individual Performance (E. Hadžihafizbegović)
Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival 2025 – Best Narrative Feature
Synopsis
Four university students and friends, Lovro, Nenad, Stevan and Ivan join the partisans to fight against the Ustashas and the Nazis. Sixteen years later, they are renowned filmmakers. But in Communist Yugoslavia, four artists are suspected of homosexuality, and a communist party loyalist Emir is sent to sabotage their careers and lives.
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About the director
Ivona Juka (Zagreb, 1975) is a Croatian and Montenegrin film director, actress and screenwriter. She graduated in acting, film and TV directing from the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb. She is the author of the award-winning films Facing the Day (2006), You Carry Me (2015) and Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day (2024). Her feature film You Carry Me premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, was Croatia’s submission for the Academy Awards, and became the first regional film acquired by Netflix. She is a member of the European Film Academy, and her films have been screened and awarded at numerous international festivals.
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