Selected as Croatia’s official submission for the 2025 Academy Award for Best International Feature, Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day is a sweeping historical epic and a tribute to love, loyalty, and the power of art and friendship.

Spanning decades, the film follows lovers Lovro (Dado Ćosić) and Nenad (Đorđe Galić) and their lifelong friendship with Stevan (Slaven Došlo, Celts) and Ivan (Elmir Krivalić), a group of gay partisans-turned-filmmakers navigating life in post-WWII Communist Yugoslavia. As they rise to fame, they are forced to create propaganda for the regime, risking everything to protect their identities and each other. Though accepted by their families and peers, state surveillance and political suspicion threaten to unravel their lives and careers. Tasked with sabotaging them is Emir (Emir Hadžihafizbegović, Quo Vadis, Aida?), a party loyalist hiding his own secrets, whose loyalties begin to falter.

Lush, intimate, and politically charged (and with startling parallels to our current political climate), Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day is a poignant story of resistance — against oppression, against silence, and for the freedom to live and love without fear.