Hidden in the outskirts of Europe, nested between two mountains in Eastern Croatia, lays a village
that changed twice its name, population, and its own history. This village, which has two cemeteries, is
immersed in numerous unspoken and conflicting memories passed on from generation to generation.
Recollection of past inter-ethnic conflicts is being transformed to forever keep a seed of future
suffering, trauma, and war. The village that used to be the home of two nations becomes a paradigm
of a vicious circle of mutual feelings of injustice and generalization of guilt, forever trapped in
condensed historical traumas of the 20th century. Through conversations with members of both ethnic
groups, a deep chasm opens in front of the viewer. Fluent and contradictory, these seemingly
authentic personal memories are strongly shaped by collective ethnicity. In times of major social
crises, they will again serve as a trigger for new conflicts.
Director: Jadran Boban
Scriptwriter: Vesna Kesić
DOP: Srđan Kovačević
Sound design: Dominik Krnjak / Dušan Maksimovski / Dario Domitrović
Editor: Jadran Boban
Producers: Morana Ikić Komljenović / Sabina Krešić
18. LIBURNIA FILM FESTIVAL- 2020- Jury special mention
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