The short documentary film "de Rivera," about the renowned visual artist Karlo Afan de Rivera, directed by the young filmmaker Luka Vlaho, will be screened on Monday, May 6th, at 7:30 PM at the Queen Katarina Kosača Gallery as part of this year's Mostar Spring - 26th Days of the Croatian Heritage Matrix.

The documentary portrays the life and work of the painter born in Mali Lošinj, who lived and created in Mostar for over six decades. The film premiered at last year's Sarajevo Film Festival and will now be showcased in collaboration with the Eko Planet Association for the audience in the director's hometown.

About the author…

Luka Vlaho was born in Mostar in 1998. He completed a four-year study in film and theater directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo and received his diploma in September 2022. Among his previous projects are the short film "In Memory of the Summer That Passed," which was screened at film festivals in Bitola, Skopje, and Sarajevo; the short documentary "Plehan," which premiered at the Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival in 2019; and the graduate short fiction film "Justine," which won the third prize at the International Film Directing Festival in Leskovac in 2022. He directed the short documentary film "de Rivera," which premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2023, and recently completed filming the short fiction film "Bonaca," which is currently in post-production. Luka has worked as a second assistant director on feature films such as "Labor Day" (Pjer Želica, 2022), "Excursion" (Una Gunjak, 2023), and "Gym" (Srđan Vuletić, TBD), as well as on TV series like "The Valley" by Amra Bakšić Čamo and Danis Tanović, "On the Edge of Sanity" by Adnan Kapetanović, and "Frustration" by Srđan Vuletić and Gabor Krigler.

Filmography:

"In Memory of the Summer That Passed" (ASU Sarajevo, 2018)
"Plehan" (ASU Sarajevo, 2019)
"Justine" (ASU Sarajevo, 2022)
"de Rivera" (Eko Planet Association, 2023)

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