I Have Nothing Nice to Say to You

Owing to the unusual blend of a socially relevant subject and a highly aestheticized auteur style, one critic called this film "Croatian documentary (anti)Twin Peaks"!

The unresolved 1991 murder of the young Sisak girl Ljubica Solar inspired the director to tell a story about the young generation he himself belongs to. The lives of these people were to a large degree affected by the war and they are facing the eternal small-town dilemma: to go or to stay?

By telling a story about a dead girl and her mother – who has an idea who the murderers of her daughter might be but gets no help from anyone – Dević also tells a story about Sisak's dark side. I Have Nothing Nice to Say to You is a documentary film noir about a city that the war has made even darker than it would normally be. Owing to the unusual blend of a socially relevant subject and a highly aestheticized auteur style, one critic called this film "Croatian documentary (anti)Twin Peaks"!

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Goran Dević

Author of documentary and fiction films, awarded in Croatia and abroad. Together with Zvonimir Jurić, he directed the awarded feature film ''The Blacks'' (2009), proclaimed by critics as the best Croatian (anti)war film.
Original title: Nemam ti šta reć' lijepo
Year of production: 2006.
Screening time: 30'
Format: HD
Production: Factum
Co-financiers: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, OSI: Croatia
Written and directed by: Goran Dević
Producer: Nenad Puhovski
Cinematography by: Jure Černec
Edited by: Vanja Siruček
Original score: Jeff Tweedy
Sound recording: Hrvoje Grill
Production assistant: Marina Andrijašević
Assistant cinematographer: Bojana Burnać

Festivals & Awards:

DokMa Maribor, 2006 – Grand prix; Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2007 – Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury; Dokumentart Neubrandenburg Film Festival, 2007 – Special Mention for Documentary Film; ZagrebDox, 2006; DOKAVIV – Tel Aviv, 2007; Images Festival, Toronto, 2007; Crossing Europe Filmfestival Linz, 2010; DOK Leipzig 2013 - retrospective programme Storm! 2