WORLD PREMIERE OF LOUDER THAN GUNS AT 20TH MOTOVUN FILM FESTIVAL

The new documentary film directed by the award-winning filmmaker Miroslav Sikavica, about Croatian patriotic songs from the Homeland War period, Louder than Guns (Factum, 2017), premieres on Wednesday, 26 July, in competition of the 20th Motovun Film Festival.

Stop the War in Croatia, Hrvatine and Bože čuvaj Hrvatsku are the songs whose lyrics we all remember well, quite often with our guts churning. The wartime 1990s were marked by bombs, aircrafts, guns and tanks, which went beyond the front lines and reached deep into our daily lives through radio and television, through melodies ones used to describe the atrocities and others to confirm their political loyalty. At the same time, countless bands, singers and composers dedicated their music to boosting war-mongering moral in the country, and national radio and television broadcaster considered these songs an important form of political struggle, so it commissioned, financed, recorded and intensely broadcasted them. Twenty years after the end of the Homeland War, its soundtrack still attracts attention, stirs emotions and controversies.

The film Louder than Guns by the award-winning director Miroslav Sikavica is having its world premiere at the 20th Motovun Film Festival in the central square. This documentary produced by Factum expounds a painstaking research into Croatian music of the nineties, featuring both the protagonists and the living witnesses of the time, such as Josipa Lisac, Zrinko Tutić, Jasenko Houra, Vera Svoboda, Pero Galić (front man of Opća opasnost), Josip Ivanković, Sandra Kulier etc.