Ognjen Sviličić

Ognjen Sviličić (born 1971 in Split) is a screenwriter and film director, based in Berlin, noted for his critically acclaimed 2007 films Sorry For Kung Fu, Armin and These Are the Rules.

Career

Sviličić was born 1971 in Split, in a family of journalists. He started his career with a series of TV features which had a mixed critical response. At the beginning of the 2000s, Sviličić often worked as a co-writer or script doctor on films by other directors (What Iva Recorded by Tomislav Radić, The Melon Route by Branko Schmidt). Many of the directors with whom he worked made significantly better films than usual while co-working with Sviličić. Sviličić was therefore sometimes nicknamed "Mabuse of Croatian cinema", who "resurrects [directors] from the dead".

Sviličić's first international success was the comedy Sorry for Kung Fu,

His next internationally recognised film was These Are the Rules, premiered in the Orrizonti section at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the award for the best actor.

He was working as a script consultant for many European script development platforms like First Film First, EAVE or Nipkow Program. At the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, he has worked as a screenwriting tutor, later he started teaching at a smaller art academy in Široki Brijeg in Bosnia Herzegovina.

Sviličić signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.

Filmography Wish I Were a Shark (Da mi je biti morski pas) (1999) — writer and director Sorry for Kung Fu (Oprosti za kung fu) (2004) — writer and director What Iva Recorded (Što je Iva snimila 21. listopada 2003.) (2005) — writer The Melon Route (Put lubenica) (2006) — writer Armin (2007) — writer and director Metastases (2009) — writer Two Sunny Days (2010) — writer and director These Are the Rules (2014) — writer and director We Will Be the World Champions (2015) — writer The Voice (2019) — writer and director Father (2020) — writer