Please join us for a screening of three short films by film director and independent curator Ivan Ramljak (b.1974). Since 2022, Ramljak has been the Nordic scout for the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), one of Europe’s largest and most important film festivals. His films ‘Islands of Forgotten Cinemas’, ‘Home of the Resistance’, ‘Mezostajun’, ‘Once Upon a Youth’ and ‘El Shatt – Blueprint For Utopia’ have been screened at more than 80 festivals around the world and won a number of awards. He is also the founder of the Human Rights Film Festival Zagreb, and a former artistic director of the Tabor Film Festival.
Hosted by Filmform, Ramljak will be at the Nordic Art Association’s (NKF) residency programme in Stockholm for two weeks in April 2026. Located at Malongen in Nytorget, the residency in NKF’s guest studio provides time and space for artists, curators, and other cultural workers to focus on and develop their professional practice in an intimate and historically rich environment.
PROGRAMME:
‘Ships Still Don’t Come Ashore’, 2017 2:45 min
In 1955, Mihovil Pansini, a legend of Croatian experimental cinema and founder of the Genre Film Festival (GEFF), made ‘Ships Don’t Come Ashore’, a film about the inability to escape from both an island and oneself. Sixty-two years later, ships still don’t come ashore, proven in this 16mm tribute film made by his grand-nephew.
‘Kino otok (Islands of Forgotten Cinemas)’, 2016, 35 min
This poetic documentary explores the lost film culture of small villages on Croation islands during the second half of the last century. Six historical witnesses recount their favorite films and events related to their viewing and screening experiences, which left important marks on their lives.
‘Greetings from the Secretariat’, 2025, 24 min
On an island paradise, not everything is as perfect as it seems. Crafted from photographs discovered in a deserted police station, this crime film peers behind the warm sunshine and colourful attractions of one of the most popular tourist destinations in Croatia. Spanning decades and political systems, the crime scene photographs acquire their own syntax, telling a story of a society and its pathologies.
Running time: 61 min (+ Introduction and Q&A with filmmaker Ivan Ramljak)
Date and time: Wednesday, April 1st, kl 18.00–20.00
Place: Malongen (Nytorget 15, Stockholm)
No admission fee nor RSVP required