In Janko Baljak's documentaries we are used to scenes who are hard to digest, so we don't doubt it will be the case with his new film Vukovar - Last Cut. It will be shown within the framework of the Facts and Puzzles program.

- What could I say but that those who say this are right.

I couldn't have made a film differing from the war that was waged in this region. We couldn't spare the viewers to that extent and completely escape from the cruelty that existed. Unfortunately, we have gotten used to it - says director Janko Baljak, stressing that his film shall have its world premiere two days before its airing on FEST - on the Zagrebdox festival of documentary films in Zagreb .

The film is an attempt to reconstruct the events in Vukovar in 1991. It was done as a Croatian-Serbia co-production. Asked whether the last fifteen year behind us are enough of a time distance to deal with this theme objectively, Baljak said:

The historical distance of fifteen years is, I think, enough to speak about that issue with a relatively cool head. What made things easier is - and I wouldn't have entered this whole project had it not been for this fact - that it was conceived as the first Croatian-Serbian co-production on this subject matter. I think that meddling in your neighbour's affairs would be of bad taste. In this way we have had well-balanced viewpoints and we have handled this joint stage of the work successfully. And whether fifteen years is enough time to make a movie like this, we shall see from the reactions of people when they see it, their emotions... If we can travel to Croatia without visas, if sport events are being held, as well as cultural ones... Why wouldn't one make films dealing with the subject?