Stanka Gjurić

Stanka Gjurić (; born 20 January 1966) is a Croatian poet, essayist, actress, filmmaker and ex model. She is a member of the Croatian Writers' Association, Croatian Academy of Science and Art in Diaspora (Basel, Switzerland) and HDS ZAMP. She has also acted in seven feature films.

Biography Stanka Gjurić was born in Čakovec, FNR Yugoslavia (modern-day Croatia). Today she lives in Zagreb. She has published 20 books (mainly poems, philosophical and lyrical essays). Since 2006 has also worked as a film maker, gaining worldwide acclaim with her short film Ubojite misli (Battle Thoughts). Her short films have been screened in film festivals in France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, India, Egypt, Switzerland, Bangladesh, Brazil, Austria, etc, and she has won 26 awards. In 2019, on the famous IMDb, Gjurić is on the list of 'Croatian Beautiful, Famous & Sexy Actresses', alongside the sixteen most beautiful Croatian actresses.

In November 2024 and 2025 Stanka chairs the international jury at the Egyptian American Film Festival in New York (NYC).

On January 26, 2026, upon invitation, Gjurić officially became a member of the 'Global Awards Los Angeles', headed by Maximilian Law - a prominent film producer, director and screenwriter, founder and also director of the 'Ferrara Film Festival' in Italy, and artistic director of the 'Comedy Film Fest'.

Family Stanka's mother Stanka, aka Lela (born Kopjar, 1934–2018, Čakovec), worked as a typist at the Municipal Court in Čakovec, while her father, Dragan Gjurić (1929-1992, Čakovec), was the director of accounting at the G.K. "Međimurje". Stanka is a unit, but his father has two older half-brothers, Tomislav (born in 1949) and Roman (born in 1952). By the way, Stanka's distant cousin is Alojzije Mišić, the bishop of Mostar-Duvno, and the apostolic administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan from 1912 until his death in 1942. Alojzije (Stjepan) Mišić's parents were Mate and Marija (née Cigić) Mišić. Alojzije had two sisters, Marija and Persa. Marija married Ivan Gjurić (Stanka's great-grandfather, i.e. the father of her grandfather Andrija), who with Marija, in addition to Andrija, had three other children (Antun, Ljudevit and Viktorija). Alojzije Mišić's sister, Persa, was a nun.

Poetry Sedmi pečat, 1981 Treći čin, 1983 Dječak, 1986 Ključarev san, 1990 Il sogno del guardiano, 1994 Protuotrov ili njegovanje ludila, 1994 Protuotrov ili njegovanje ludila, 1998 Sve što sja, 2005 Kažnjavalac dobrih navika, 2005 Bešćutnost akvarela, 2008 Protuotrov ili njegovanje ludila/Contravveleno o coltivazione della follia, 2017 Nepremostiva, 2020

Essays Lekcija o drskosti, 2000 Umijeće življenja, 2015 Kroz Eros i Thanatos, 2017 Unveiling reality, 2018 Istina o sreći, 2018 Budnost, 2022

Opinion piece Otpovijed, 2014 Otpovijed (II dio), 2015

Diary prose Dnevnik vodonoše/The Diary of an Aquarian, 2010

Filmography

Acting roles That Summer of White Roses, as White Rose(1989) Vjetar u mreži, as A Woman in a Dream (1989) Školjka šumi, as Barmaid (1991) Vrijeme za, as Daughter in Law (1992) Tu, as Nurse (2003) Kad zvoni?, as Nurse (2005) S druge strane, as The old man's daughter (2016) Koja je ovo država! as Faruk's wife Enisa (2018) Link as Stanka Gjurić (2021)

Directing Battle Thoughts (Ubojite misli, 2006) - short Sleeping and dreaming (Spavanje i sanjanje, 2006) - short Encounter (Susret, 2006) - short Passion for book has not disappeared (Strast za knjigom nije nestala, 2007) - short Eleven (Jedanaest, 2007) - short Happy boat (Sretan brod, 2007) - short Courtyard window (Dvorišni prozor, 2007) - short Luka's prophecy (Lukino proročanstvo, 2007) - short Alexandrian poets (Aleksandrijski pjesnici, 2008) - short The sound of life (Zvuci života, 2008) - short Bast (2009) - short Noon Shot (Zagrebačko podne, 2009) - short Lullaby (Uspavanka,2010) - short Immoral Manual (Nemoralna čitanka, 2013) - short Lust and the heart (O požudi i srcu, 2013) - short Lioncity (Lavograd, 2015) - short Perfect Tattoo (2016) - short Rhythm (Ritam, 2019) - short Once upon a time (Jednom davno, 2020) - short Summer morning(Ljetno jutro,2021) - short Bread (Kruh, 2022) - short Link (2022) - short Son of a Prophetess (Vračarin sin, 2022) - short Six tears (Šest plakanja, 2023) - short Without Breathing (Nedišući, 2024) - short Political correcntness killed me (Ubi me politička korektnost, 2024) - short From New York, with love (Iz New Yorka, s ljubavlju, 2024) Twist (Zakoret, 2024) Masked cloud (Maskirani oblak, 2025)