One winter weekend, sisters Anica and Irena visit their father, who lives on a remote island with their eccentric brother Ivan. The occasion for the visit is their father’s decision to sell the family land. Confined in the family home that has seen better days, the remarkable ensemble cast led by Marija Škaričić is forced to re-examine their relationships and confront the past. Twelve years after his multi-award-winning film The Reaper, acclaimed Croatian director Zvonimir Jurić (The Blacks, ZFF 2009; White, ZFF 2013; Transmania, ZFF 2016) returns to the domestic film scene with Small Things, a meticulous portrait of a dysfunctional family steeped in the oppressive atmosphere of island life. The film is inspired by the story The Fourth King by Jurica Pavičić, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jurić.
Language: HR
Subtitles: EN
Zvonimir Jurić (Osijek, 1971) graduated in Film and Television Directing from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb in 1999. He has directed several award-winning documentaries and four feature films based on his own screenplays, as well as short fiction films (White, ZFF 2013; Transmania, ZFF 2016), several television series, and a segment of the omnibus Sex, Booze and Short Fuse (2004). His short fiction film Yellow Moon (2009) and his feature films The Reaper (2014) and The Blacks (ZFF 2009, co-directed with Goran Dević) have screened at more than a hundred festivals and won numerous film awards.
Director: Zvonimir Jurić
Screenplay: Zvonimir Jurić, Jurica Pavičić
Cast: Marija Škaričić, Izudin Bajrović, Ivana Roščić, Juraj Lerotić, Bepina Baričević, Borna Mihovilović
Director of photography: Marko Brdar
Editing: Ana Štulina
Producer: Ankica Jurić Tilić, Dragan Jurić, Eva Rohrman, Szabolcs Tolnai
Production: Kinorama, Forum Ljubljana, Atalanta
Festivals and awards: Pula Film Festival 2026; Sarajevo Film Festival 2026; Zagreb Film Festival 2026
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