Cinema: Grandpa Guru (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Grandpa Guru is a portrait documentary that shows the continuity of the work of the band Kultur Shock in an eclectic style, with a special emphasis on the interesting life, music and art of their singer and frontman Srđan Gino Jevđević. In the film, director Silvio Mirošničenko shows Gino’s spiritual journey in search of his own identity and place in the world, after leaving Sarajevo’s war environment and arriving in Seattle, where he meets Krist Novoselic from the group Nirvana and Jello Biafra from the band Dead Kennedys, who encouraged him to continue playing music.

Gino is haunted by the question of belonging and the feeling of being torn between life in America and Sarajevo and the mother to whom he is very attached. This is the story of one person’s transformations in difficult times, his escape to the end of the world and the demon that follows him.

After the premiere at ZagrebDox, the documentary film Grandpa Guru was shown at the Sarajevo Film Festival, which was followed by a screening at festivals such as Liburnia Film Festival in Opatija, Dok & Rhythm Festival in Belgrade, SEE Festival in Novi Sad, Adelaide Film Festival in Australia, Underhill Fest in Podgorica, as well as at the Buenos Aires International Film Festival.