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The Investigator

CZ/HR 2022, 74 min, Viktor Portel

Former investigator of The Hague Tribunal returns to the Balkans, to places where the war crimes were committed nearly 30 years ago. Can justice be brought from the outside?

Vladimír Dzuro is the first Czech investigator to have worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He collected evidence against war criminals and hunted perpetrators of ethnic cleansing. The two biggest cases include the Ovcara massacre related to Vukovar's mayor Slavko Dokmanovic, and the ethnic cleansing committed by the warlord Željko Ražnatovic Arkan. We join Vladimír Dzuro on his metaphorical and real journey across the places of investigation in the former Yugoslavia and meet some survivors of these cases. What is the landscape of the Balkans, which saw a fratricidal conflict twenty-five years ago, like today? What happened to the people who still live there and to their memory? What is the significance and meaning of justice brought from the outside? 

The film is inspired by Vladimir Dzuro’s bestselling book The Investigator – Demons of the Balkan War (Grada, 2017, and Potomac Books, 2019).

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festivals

Ji.hlava IDFF 2022, CZ | FIPADOC 2023, FR | Zagreb DOX 2023, HR | Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2023, PL | Beyond Borders 2023, GR | AegeanDocs 2023, GR | PriMed 2023, FR

awards

RAI Broadcasting Prize (PriMed 2023)

pictures

QUEERFILMNACHT

Demnächst im Kino

Im Februar 2025

BABY

ein Film von Marcelo Caetano

Brasilien/Frankreich/Niederlande 2024, 106 Minuten, portugiesische Originalfassung mit deutschen Untertiteln

Wien: 10.2. 20:00 Uhr Votivkino
Graz: 12.2., 20:40 Uhr KIZRoyal
Klagenfurt: 14.2. 20:10 Uhr Volkskino
Innsbruck: 27.2. 20:30 Uhr Cinematograph

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NEWS

Nächste Kinostarts in Österreich

 

DEAR BEAUTIFUL BELOVED 
Ein Film von Juri Rechinsky 


7. Februar 2025

Premieren in Anwesenheit von Regisseur Juri Rechinsky & Filmteam: 

4.2., 20.00 Leokino, Innsbruck 
5.2., 18.30 KIZ Royal Kino, Graz
6.2., 20.00 Moviemento, Linz
7.2. 19.00 Metro Kinokulturhaus, Wien 

Ab 7. Februar in folgenden Kinos: 
Metro Kinokulturhaus, Wien 
Leokino, Innsbruck
KIZ Royal Kino, Graz
Moviemento, Linz
Volkskino, Klagenfurt (7.- 9.2.)
Kino im Kesselhaus (19.+ 21.2.)
Programmkino Wels (ab 28.2.)

Sonderveranstaltungen Film + Paneldiskussion: 
13.2., 19.30 Metro KInokulturhaus
17.2., 20.00 Metro Kinokulturhaus 

 

ALARM 
Ein Film von Judith Zdesar 

4. April 2025

5. April 2025 Premiere Stadttheater Wiener Neustadt

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Eine Vielzahl ausgewählter Filme findet Ihr auf  

www.gemeindekino.at oder
www.facebook.com/GemeindeKINO
 

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FESTIVALS

BLUM Masters of their own destiny

Directors Fortnight, Moma NY, US 
22 and 27 February 2025 
International Premiere 

PERSONALE

Big Sky Documentary FF 
14 - 23 Febraury, Montana
North Amercican Premiere 

DEAR BEAUTIFUL BELOVED

Main Award for Best Documentary 
BIDF Budapest Int. Documentary Film Festival 
Hungary, 2025

WHERE YOU MEET US IN PERSON

12 - 18 February 2025:

BERLINALE / EFM 

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