BEAUTIFUL EVENING, BEAUTIFUL DAY

CROATIAN FILM

BEAUTIFUL EVENING, BEAUTIFUL DAY

18+

DIRECTOR: Ivona Juka

COUNTRY: HR

YEAR/DURATION: 2024. • 137′

drama

Info

SCREENPLAY: Ivona Juka
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Dragan Ruljančić
EDITOR: Nenad Pirnat
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Zvonko Sarić
COSTUME DESIGN: Goranka Krpan
SOUND: Jane Tattersall
SCORE: Michael Brook
MAKE-UP: Ana Bulajić-Črček, Goran Ignjatovski
SPECIAL EFFECTS: Zvonimir Krivec
VISUAL EFFECTS: Prasanna Paul, Jon Campfens, Darcy Arthurs, Jeff Bruneel, Piotr Grabarczyk, Christos Markides, Paolo Antypas, Mike Charalambous, Valentino Laz
LEAD ACTRESSES: Anja Šovagović Despot
LEAD ACTORS: Emir Hadžihafizbegović, Dado Ćosić
SUPPORTING ACTRESSES: Ivana Boban, Asja Jovanović, Milica Mihajlović, Matija Prskalo
SUPPORTING ACTORS: Slaven Došlo, Đorđe Galić, Elmir Krivalić, Marko Braić, Dražen Čuček, Vojislav Brajović, Goran Grgić, Mislav Čavajda, Enes Vejzović, Andrej Dojkić, Svetozar Cvetković
CASTING DIRECTOR: –
DEBUTANTS: actors: Laura Sinovčić
PRODUCER: Anita Juka
PRODUCTION COMPANY: 4film
CO-PRODUCERS: Magdalena Zimecka, Constantinos Nikiforou, Jasmin Duraković, Angelina A. Duraković
CO-PRODUCED BY: Studio Produkcyjne ORKA (PL), Caretta Films (CY), DEPO d.o.o. (BIH)
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.