Premiere: Mannheim 2000 “Sorry for Kung fu” 2003 75 min, Croatia Premiere: Berlinale, Forum of new cinema 2004 Grand Prix Warsaw film festival 2004 “Armin” 2007, 84 min, Croatia, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina Premiere: Berlinale, Forum of new cinema 2007 FIPRESCI prize, best foreign film Palms Springs 2008 East of the west award, Karlovy Vary 2008 “Two Sunny Days” 2010, 78 min, Croatia Premiere: Warsaw 2011 “These are the Rules” 2014, 78 min Croatia, France, Serbia, North Macedonia Premiere: Venice, Orrizonti, 2014 Best Actor Venice Orrizonti, 2014 Best director Warsaw 2015 Best director Les Arcs 2015 “The Voice” 2019, 80 min Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia 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.

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).

[1][4] Sviličić's first international success was the comedy Sorry for Kung Fu,[1] in which a young woman from the Dalmatian highlands comes back from Germany to her native village.

That is the story about a teenage musician and his simpleton father who travel from Bosnia to Zagreb to audition for a German coproduction film.

Son is skeptical and bitter, and father is naive and overtly enthusiastic for anything that is "Western" and "European".