Neighbors

Ivan Ramljak was born in 1974 in Zagreb, Croatia. After 10 years of working as a journalist, film critic, organizer and founder of various cultural events and institutions in Zagreb (Mochvara club, Human Rights Film Festival Zagreb, Radio Student, DocHouse film nights), in 2007, he started to make films. In the same year he attended the Ateliers Varan workshop in Belgrade. So far he made 7 of them, four fiction and experimental shorts which he co-wrote and co-directed in collaboration with Marko Škobalj, and three shorts (one fiction, two documentaries) made by himself. The films were shown in more than 50 film festivals around the world (Rotterdam FF, goEast Film Festival Wiesbaden, Curtas Vila do Conde...). His most successful documentary film 'Kino otok', made in 2016, was so far shown at dozen international festivals and got three awards. From the beginning of 2013 he is curating a short film program called Short Tuesdays in kino Tuskanac, Zagrebian version of a cinematheque. In 2016, he finally earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in cultural management at University of Applied Sciences Baltazar. He is currently taking a Master of Arts course in documentary filmmaking at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb.