Critics Award |
Golden Frog |
Best Film |
Best Central & Eastern European Feature Film |
Special Prize |
Outstanding Artistic Achievement |
European Film Award |
European Discovery |
Kingfisher Award |
Best Film |
Grand Prize |
International Competition |
Special Jury Mention |
FIPRESCI Prize |
Best Foreign Language Film |
Big Golden Arena |
National Competition |
National Competition: Best Cinematography |
National Competition: Best Editing |
National Competition: Best Film |
Octavian Award |
Queens Spirit Award |
Best Director |
Jury Prize |
Best Director of a Feature Film |
Best Feature Film |
Best Screenplay |
Special Jury Prize |
New Directors Competition |
Best Balkan Film |
Best Film |
Transilvania Trophy |
Best Film |
Prize Trieste |
Best Film |
Croatia had been part of Yugoslavia before becoming its own country in 1991. Arsen Anton Ostojić's "Ta divna splitska noć" ("A Wonderful Night in Split" in English) looks at the result.
"Ta divna splitska noc" belongs to the latest wave of Croatian movie-making, which has in the recent years kindled a new hope for the future of this cinematography. Following the trend, the film bursts with dark humor and honestly explores the painful sores of a frustrated post-war society.
This looked like another movie with people dying because they cannot cope with drugs, or with their emotional problems, or something. But it managed to keep my interest right up to the very last scene, and I am sorry I cannot tell you about it without spoiling it for you.
Extraordinary sensibility for details and human behavior Mr. Ostojic, director and a writer of the film has an extraordinary talent for details.
This is a very dark film (thematically as well as visually) whose imagery is, at times, hypnotic. Set in the director's home town of Split, it portrays the city in an extremely shadowy, surreal and drug-induced tone (a fact that may potentially put off some viewers).
A beautiful movie!!!! Probably the only one made in Croatia that deserves to be called "a movie".