Naked Island

Tiha K Gudac : 2014
Goli

Some sixty years ago, a man went missing for four years. He returned back a changed man carrying along a painful secret. He later built his family's life around this unspoken of secret. Talking about the past was forbidden in the family. It was his granddaughter, also the director of this film, who first started asking questions, wanting to find out what lay hidden beneath her grandfather's scar covered body ever since childhood. However, he died without revealing the entire story to anyone. Naked Island is an investigation built upon the remnants of the past, a mosaic made of clues – family photos and intimate testimonies of a tight-knit group of people who were brought together by the same place, an island of broken souls, and the consequences that this place left on three generations. At the same time, it is a fascinating portrayal of a moment in which a past can finally become history. Tiha K Gudac's directorial debut was winner of the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film in Documentary Competition when it premiered at Sarajevo Film Festival 2014, and received a Special Mention of the Jury at Zagreb Film Festival 2014.