Fiume O Morte!

Year
2025
Country
Croatia, Italy, Slovenia
Duration
112’
Director
Igor Bezinović
In 1919, the Italian poet, dandy, and preacher of war Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied Fiume. The citizens of Fiume, a town today called Rijeka, retell and reinterpret the bizarre story about the 16-month occupation of their city in a brutally factual yet definitely punk cinematic journey.
CREW:
Director: Igor Bezinović
Producer: Producer Vanja Jambrović, Tibor Keser. Co-producer Erica Barbiani, Marina Gumz
Cinematographer: Gregor Božič
Sound: Giovanni Maier, Hrvoje Nikšić
Production
Restart, [email protected], +385(0) 91 89 30 675
Awards
Tiger Award Winner at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025, FIPRESCI Prize at International, Film Festival Rotterdam 2025
Director
Igor Bezinović

Igor Bezinović is a filmmaker born in Rijeka. Which is now part of Croatia, Rijeka at the time was part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; before that – the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and before that, the Free State of Fiume; before that, the Italian Regency of Carnaro, before that – Austria-Hungary...
  

His films include The Blockade (Oktavijan prize for Best Croatian Documentary in 2012), Veruda (Oktavijan prize for Best Croatian Documentary in 2015) and A Brief Excursion (Big Golden Arena prize for Best Croatian Feature in 2017), along with many shorts of all shapes and sizes. 

His work has been shown internationally at events including IFF Rotterdam, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Ji.hlava, CPH:DOX, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Venice Biennale of Architecture (with Hrvoslava Brkušić for Pulska grupa), Museum of the Moving Image, Guanajuato IFF and Viennale, among others. 

He graduated in Film Directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, and in Philosophy, Sociology, and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.

Selected Filmography

Fiume o Morte! (2025), Microcassette:The Smallest Cassette I've Ever Seen (2020), Postcards (2018), The Lovetts (2018), A Brief Excursion (2017), A Short Family Film (2016), Veruda – A Film About Bojan (2015), From Kršan to Peroj (2015), A Very Brief Excursion (2014), Waiting (2014), The Blockade (2012), Unmediated Democracy Demands Unmediated Space (2012), Self-Governed Film (2012), Naked Hours (2011), In Fond Memory of TDZ (2010), An Encounter (2009), Non- Recyclable (2009), Above-Average (2009)

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