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Cinema Muzeul Țăranului -
Thursday, March 29, 2018 - 18:00
Cinema Elvire Popesco -
Sunday, April 1, 2018 - 18:00
Written by:
Boris Poljak
Cinematography:
Boris Poljak
Editing:
Damir Čučić
Producer:
Vera Robić-Škarica
Production:
Croatian Film Association
Romanian Premiere
At sunrise, a beach becomes the place of surreal encounters. The young try to prolong the remains of the night. The elderly make a start of the coming day. For some brief moments, they move in the same space, without acknowledging each other's existence. The third presence on set is nature. The sand. The sea. The sun. Unlike the humans, it is permanent. Boris Poljak employs stunning images to convey a sense of transience of human existence. All those superbly perfect bodies burning with lust are doomed to turn into decrepit carcasses, same as those walking aimlessly, as in a limbo, in the shallow waters of a sea unchanged, accompanied by the sound of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. (Adina Marin, BIEFF 2018)
Director:
Contact:
autofokusbp[at]gmail[dot]com
Festivals, awards:
- First Prize of the Jury - International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2017
- Best Documentary Award and Best Director Award - Croatian Film Days 2017
- Best Short Film - Tenerife Shorts Spain 2017
- Best Film FeKK Short Film Festival Slovenia 2017
- Best Film - Tabor Film Festival Croatia 2017
- Special Mention - Dokufest Kosovo 2017
- ZagrebDox Croatia 2017
Curatorial comment:
In pure documentary form, without text, this film shows young party spirits and old people sharing the same place – a beach in Split, Croatia. Exquisite documentary shots coalesce into a round dance of fervor, desire, loss, maturity, struggle and devotion, stillness and movement. The young are unaware of it, the old are aware or vice versa, it doesn’t really matter in these ludicrous observations. Those secret looks are truly human, naughty, loving and full of truth. With strong contrasts and precise and brilliant images the film captures the happy futility of life among different generations. Life will go on living, from beginning to end. In the sea, the water, under the sun, in this film. (Best Documentary Award – Statement of the Jury of the Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of North Rhine-Westphalia at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen)
In pure documentary form, without text, this film shows young party spirits and old people sharing the same place – a beach in Split, Croatia. Exquisite documentary shots coalesce into a round dance of fervor, desire, loss, maturity, struggle and devotion, stillness and movement. The young are unaware of it, the old are aware or vice versa, it doesn’t really matter in these ludicrous observations. Those secret looks are truly human, naughty, loving and full of truth. With strong contrasts and precise and brilliant images the film captures the happy futility of life among different generations. Life will go on living, from beginning to end. In the sea, the water, under the sun, in this film. (Best Documentary Award – Statement of the Jury of the Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of North Rhine-Westphalia at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen)