Naked Island

Synopsis

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 ruins 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 consequences that this place left on three generations.

Director Biography

Tiha K. Gudac (Zagreb, 1982) is a film producer from Zagreb. She has obtained University degrees in Film Production and in Business Economics. Her earlier work includes acting, theatre production, marketing, PR, and intensive involvement in non-profit sector mostly in conflict- resolution. Later she moved to working almost exclusively in production of audiovisual formats and film festival. She has independently produced short films some of which have been awarded, and has worked on crews of feature fiction and documentary films, animated films etc…“Naked Isand” is her first film as a director.