Screening of the short feature film Krava (The Cow), based on the short story of the same name by Branko Sbutega

Screenplay and direction: PAVO MARINKOVIĆ 

Starring: Stjepan Perić, Dubravka Drakić
Producer: Sanja Šamanović
Co-producers: Sara Stijović, Marija Perović, Jurica Šimunković
Director of photography: Branko Linta H.F.S. 
Editor: Dubravko Slunjski
Set Designer: Gorana Stepan
Costume designer: Vedrana Rapić
Composer: Hannes Gill

Participants: 
Pavo Marinković, director
Dubravka Drakić, actress
Sara Stijović, producer
Marija Perović, producer

Based on the short story of the same name by Don Branko Sbutega, Krava (The Cow) is an 18-minute Croatian–Montenegrin co-production. Along with Stjepan Perić, the film features Montenegrin actress Dubravka Drakić in a leading role. It had its world premiere in October 2025 at the oldest competitive film festival in the United States, held in Chicago, where it was nominated for the prestigious Golden Hugo Award.

“Krava is inspired by the short story of the same name by Don Branko Sbutega. I read it shortly after it was published in Croatia in the author’s collection Kurosavin Nemir Svijeta. It struck me for its deep moral clarity and simplicity. I had never encountered a source for a film idea that so simply, yet so philosophically, explores the themes of sin and remorse, and what remains afterward: the emptiness of the human soul. I adapted the story quite freely, aiming to further dramatize its philosophical motifs and render them more cinematic, through a recurring use of humor that gradually turns into the protagonist’s paranoia and ultimately his moral collapse.”

Pavo Marinković

Book launch: Don Branko Sbutega

Participants: 
Antun Sbutega, President of the Don Branko Sbutega Foundation
Ratimir Martinović, general and artistic director of KotorArt Festival
Moderator: Sara Lakičević, PR

The book Don Branko Sbutega offers an overview of the life and work of Don Branko Sbutega (1952–2006), a Catholic priest, intellectual, writer, and patron of the arts. He was highly active during the crisis of the former Yugoslavia, advocating ecumenism and dialogue between opposing religious and ethnic communities, peoples, and cultures. In his public statements and writings during the Yugoslav wars, he consistently condemned perpetrators, instigators, and executors of crimes, regardless of their religious, national, or political affiliation. The volume includes the text Don Branko Sbutega: Skice za Jednu Biografiju, written by Antun Sbutega, as well as two essays by Ivo Banac and Nenad Popović. It also brings together prose and poetic works by Don Branko Sbutega, including a dramatic text written on the occasion of the blessing of the Cathedral of Saint Tryphon, published in 2000; prose texts and essays from the collection Kurosavin Nemir Svijeta (2006); and two poetry collections, Sebedarje (2007) and Križni Put i Druge Pjesme (2018), along with forewords and reviews from the original editions. The book further includes photographs documenting places, individuals, and moments from various periods of Don Branko’s life, as well as a link to a film produced in 2016 by Radio Television of Montenegro at the commission of KotorArt.