Damir Čučić

Damir ČUČIĆ (1972, Slovenia) is a screenwriter, filmmaker and editor who began his filmmaking career in 1989. He has made a series of documentary and experimental films and several short fiction films (The Fourth Shift, Creatures From the Pictures, The Forgotten, La Strada, Rocking Chair, Arabesque), and has won many local and international awards. His feature fiction debut Letter to Dad won the Golden Arena at Pula Film Festival in 2012 and Čučić won the best editing and best debut director award. Mitch - Diary of a Schizophrenic Patient (2014) received the Jury’s Special Mention at FID Marseille International Documentary Film Festival. Slowly Nowhere was selected for IFFR 2023.

Filmography

(selection) Ovisnost/Addiction (1994, short), The Eye (1995, short), Meateating (1995, short), Ivica is Alone Again (1996, short), Till Madness (1997, short), Off Fuck Off (1998, short), In the Wrong Place and Time (1998, short), The Fourth Shift (1999, short), Sea over Split (1999, short), Creature from the Pictures (1999, short), Free Space (2000, short), Forgotten (2002, short), Beyond (2002, short), La Strada (2004, short), Arabeska (2004, short), Stolac za ljuljanje/Rocking Chair (2005, short), Kao riba u vodi/Like a Fish in the Water (2007, TV doc), Boje nevidljivoga/Colours of the Invisible (2008, TV doc), Rukotvorina (2008, instal), Tjeskoba/Anxiety (2010, TV doc), Ljetnikovac/Summerhouse (2018), Gradovi u kojima nisam bio/Cities I Haven't Been To (2019, short), Polako nikuda/Slowly Nowhere (2023)