Winner of both the Tiger Award and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2025 Rotterdam Film Festival, named Best Documentary at the 2026 European Film Awards, and Croatia's submission to the 98th Academy Awards for Best International Feature, FIUME O MORTE! is a defiantly punk direct-action history lesson — deadly serious yet hilariously surreal.
In 1919, the Italian poet, dandy, and glorifier of war Gabriele D'Annunzio occupied the city of Fiume (now Croatia's Rijeka). Incensed that the city — long part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire — would be ceded to the newly formed Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes despite
