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Paris

December 19th - 21th, 2020

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Danusa´s Mara
Mara Danušinan

Davor Boric
Croatia / 2017 / 00:31:18


The public role of women in a patriarchal society for centuries was limited and almost unthinkable. To play, sing and teach others is a big job that requires a lot of love and energy. The film is set In small villages in central Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Nowhere
Nigdina

Neli Ruzic
Croatia / 2017 / 0:17:34



The experimental film "Nowhere" poetically explores the personal experience of departure/return and rebuilding identities. Dramaturgy consists of two backbones - a scene portraying a sculpture "Before the dawn" by Neli Ruži? and the monument of Bogdan Bogdanovi? "The Guardian of Freedom", both of which were set up at the Klis fortress during the different moments in history, given up to entropy and social changes. The conditions in which these sculptures have been found activate the archeology of time, invisible and erased history. The film intends to use narration and visuals to depict the interweaving of personal, autobiographical and historical situations, individual and collective memories, but also the concept of identity as an unstable structure.

 

Past
Prošlost

Zoran Stojkovski
Croatia / 2017 / 0:14:25


Lana can't deal with her brother's choice to live on the streets. She tries to bring him back home which leads to conflict and mutual disappointment.

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Blink

Jakov Labrovic
Croatia / 2017 / 0:18:35



"Blink" is starting with Jakov and Ivan encounter in Vienna where Ivan flee from his family house in Kaštela and been missing for almost 2 months. Upon arrival back in Croatia, Jakov is filming his brother Ivan, his life with schizophrenia diagnose and his treatments in psychiatric clinics in Split, Rab and Ugljan. Most of the video footage was taken secretly in order to expose the inhumanity and brutality of treatment to which the residents of these institutions are subjected to and the real impact that medicament has on their mental and physical well-being. The title of the film refers to the director’s ill brother whose eyes – do not blink - due to use of invasive medical drugs.