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"!
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.
Goran Dević was born in Sisak in 1971. He graduated in Film and TV Directing from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, where he currently works as docent in the Film and TV Directing BA and MA programs. He is the author of award-winning documentary films: On the Water (2018), The Steel Mill Café (2017), 65+ (2016), Two Furnaces for Udarnik Josip Trojko (2012), Don Juan: Excuse Me, Miss (2010), The Flood (2010), Happy Land (2009), Three (2008), I Have Nothing Nice to Say to You (2005), Imported Crows (2004) and others. He is the co-director and co-screenwriter of feature film The Blacks (2009), which won several awards: Grand Prix at Ljubljana International Film Festival 2009, Grand Prix at Auteur Film Festival Serbia 2009, FIPRESCI Award and Special Award for Directing at FilmFestival Cottbus 2009, and Golden Arena for Directing at Pula Film Festival 2009. Retrospectives of his documentaries were screened at Arsenal Berlin and Crossing Europe Filmfestival Linz.
Three
Three veterans of Bosnian war – a Serb, a Croat and a Bosniak – talk about their war experience and share their memories… Three stories told by three men who fought on three different sides in the war that all of them consider absurd.
Filmography
Imported Crows, documentary (2004)
Did I Fuck Up?, documentary (2004)
Knin 2004, documentary (2004)
I Have Nothing Nice to Say to You, documentary (2006)
Three, documentary (2008)
Park under Construction, documentary (2008)
Everything Will Be All Right, fiction (2008)
Happy Land, documentary (2009)
Neighbors, documentary (2009)
The Blacks, fiction (with Zvonimir Jurić, 2009)
Don Juan: Excuse Me Miss, documentary (2010)
The Flood, documentary (2010)
Two Furnaces for Udarnik Josip Trojko, documentary film (2012)
65+, TV series (2016)
On the Water, documentary (2018)
The Building, documentary (2022)