Tiha K. Gudac
Author of multiply awarded documentary film 'Naked Island'.
Naked Island
A documentary film about a family secret conceived decades ago on 'an island of broken souls' and a painful past slowly transforming into history.
Some sixty years ago, a man went missing for four years. He returned back a changed man carrying along a painful secret. He later built his family’s life around this unspoken secret. Talking about the past was forbidden in the family. It was his granddaughter, also the director of this film, who first started asking questions, wanting to find out what lay hidden beneath her grandfather’s scar-covered body ever since childhood. However, he died without revealing the entire story to anyone. Naked Island is an investigation built upon the ruins of the past, a mosaic made of clues – family photos and intimate testimonies of a tight-knit group of people who were brought together by the same place, a political prison in ex-Yugoslavia that was also known as an island of broken souls, and consequences that this place left on three generations. At the same time, it is a fascinating portrayal of a moment in which a past can finally become history and a brave documentary defying silence and fear.
| Original title: | Goli |
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| Year of production: | 2014. |
| Screening time: | 75' |
| Production: | Factum |
| Written and directed by: | Tiha K. Gudac |
| Producer: | Nenad Puhovski |
| Cinematographers: | Eva Kraljević, Tamara Cesarec, Srđan Kovačević, Tiha K. Gudac |
| Editor: | Dragan von Petrovic |
| Composer: | Dubravko Robić |
| Participating: | Vera Winter, Alfred Pal, Đurđica Fućkan, Lenka Veršić, Vladimir Gudac, Nevenka Anzulović |
| Sound recordists: | Milan Čekić, Hrvoje Petek |
| Sound designer: | Ivan Zelić |
| Animation and graphic design: | Bruno Razum |
| Executive producer: | Tamara Babun |
| Production assistant: | Vanja Daskalović |
| Dialogue editing: | Dino Tomaš Brazzoduro |
| Speach Consultant: | Marina Petković Liker |
| Head of technique: | Mario Bandić |
Festivals & Awards:
WORKSHOPS / PITCHING FORUMS: Docu Rough Cut Boutique (Sarajevo Film Festival 2012) – DOK.incubator Award; Docs in Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival); East European Forum (Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival); Docs in Progress (International Documentary Film Festival Visions du Réel, Nyon); FESTIVALS: Sarajevo Film Festival 2014 - Heart of Sarajevo for best film in Documentary Competition; Dokufest, Prizren 2014 - Balkan:Dox programme; Zagreb Film Festival - Special Mention - Documentary film Competition; UBRZAJ Human Rights Film Festival (Montenegro, 2014); Verzio Film Festival (Budapest, 2015.); Trieste International Film Festival - CEI Award (Central European Initiative); One World International Human Rights Film Festival (Prague, 2015); ZagrebDox 2015 - Factumentaries programme; Sofia International Film Festival - Special Mention (documentary film competition); Ljubljana Documentary Film Festival 2015 - Amnesty International Award; Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, BFDKF 2015; One World Romania International Human Rights Film Festival (Bucharest, 2015); Vilinius Film Festival 2015; Go East Festival of Central and Eastern European Film (Wiesbaden, 2015); World Premieres Film Festival (Phillipines, 2015) - Best Intercontinental Film Award (Best Documentary); Cinema City (Novi Sad, 2015) - Special Mention, Audience Prize; Pula Film Festival 2015 - Croatian Programme; Festival of Mediteraneean and European Film Trebinje (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2015); Liburnia Film Festival (Lučica Ičići, Opatija, 2015) - Best Film, Best Editing; Nancy-Lorraine International Film Festival 2015 - Special Mention of the Jury; Rab Film Festival 2022
Sarajevo Film Festival 2014 - Awards Ceremony
Naked Island at ZFF 2014
Photo by Tin Vučković, ZFF Press
