Cinedoc-Tbilisi Second Edition /2

The festival in Georgian capital Tbilisi ended yesterday and I found this message on the FB page:

The award ceremony is over and we would like to announce the results:

International Competition: The main prize of this section goes to “Judgment in Hungary” (dir. Eszter Hajdu). 
The special mention to “Ne me quitte pas” (dir. Sabine Lubbe Bakker & Niels van Koevorden)

Focus Caucasus:
 The main prize of this section goes to “Blood” (photo) (dir. Alina Rudnitskaya). The special mentions to “Zelim’s Confession” (dir. Natalya Mikhaylova) and 
”Biblioteka” (dir. Ana Tsimintia)

Cinedoc Young:
 Our special jury – the youth – gave the main award of this section to “The Barrel” (dir. Anabel Rodriguez Rios)

Our opening film “Do you believe in love?” (dir. Dan Wasserman) received the Public Prize.

http://www.cinedoc-tbilisi.com/

Mark Levinson: Particle Fever

På tirsdag den 21. oktober 20:45 sender DR2 Dokumania filmen “Particle Fever”, en videnskabsformidlende dokumentar om verdens største og dyreste forsøg inden for teoretisk og eksperimenterende fysik, bygningen og ibrugtagningen af partikelacceleratoren under CERN, det europæiske forskningscenter for partikelfysik. Eksperimentet skal, hedder det i Dokumanias nyhedsbrev simpelthen ”hjælpe os med at forstå livets oprindelse ved en genskabelse af The Big Bang. 10.000 forskere fra mere end 100 lande samarbejder om verdenshistoriens vildeste videnskabelige eksperiment, og seerne er inviteret til første parket.”

Filmen har valgt over en årrække at følge nogle forskere i gang med dette. Hun her på fotoet hedder Monica Dunford og er fysiker fra Kirchhoff- instituttet på universitetet i Heidelberg. Hun forklarer det sådan til Huffingtonpost.com: “I am an experimental physicist, and with 3,000 of my fellow colleagues, I helped build the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, which is the size of a five-story building, encompasses 100 million electronic channels and has more than 1,800 miles of cable. To build this detector, 38 countries had to agree to the micrometer.

My daily work life has involved a mixture of thinking about the big questions (like how can we use this detector to search for dark matter particles), international relations (like managing a group of French, Russians, Georgians, Brazilians, Swedes, Italians and Americans) and large-scale project management (for example, we have 5,000 feet of cable that has to be run by next Tuesday). Zero math…” Hun kan ikke lide matematik og græske bogstaver skrevet med kridt på tavlen på væggen, men hun er ret glad for laboratoriearbejde, for at eksperimentere i praksis. Faget er delt i teoretisk og eksperimentel fysik, og der er brug for begge slags.

“Particle Fever” følger altså seks forskere (også sådan nogle som tænker med kridt i hånden) under opbygningen af den 27 kilometer lange cirkulære tunnel under CERN. Målet med den kæmpemæssige partikelaccelerator er at forsøge at genskabe de forhold, der eksisterede øjeblikket efter The Big Bang og finde Higgs partikel, der potentielt kan forklare oprindelsen til alt stof. Filmen, hedder det videre i Dokumanias anbefaling, ”…prikker til menneskets grundlæggende nysgerrighed om livets oprindelse, og stiller blandt andet spørgsmålet om hvorvidt vi har nået vores grænse for at forstå hvorfor vi eksisterer?”

Det er så rørende, når disse på deres vis bestemt imponerende videnskabsformidlende filmværker, en gruppe, som “Particle Fever så fornemt tilhører”, vil medtage den kunstneriske indsigt. Det lykkes som regel ikke for dem at integrere noget kunstnerisk udsagn i det journalistiske værk, så det ændres fra at være en film-forelæsning til at blive et film-essay. Også i denne film bliver det ved et velment citat fra Beethovens niende symfoni. Naturligvis netop ikke bassens solo med Schillerlinjen om glæden, men det af alle kendte sted, hvor koret kommer for fuld kraft, og naturligvis netop ved filmens vedtagne højdepunkt, hvor eksperimentet lykkes og auditorium og kontrolrum jubler. Og det bliver forsøgt med et kort citat fra Dantes guddommelige komedie i den italienske forsøgsleders festtale. Forsøget at kunstgøre filmen inkluderer uden videre van Goghs stjernehimmel og er tydeligst skuffende i det ret lange citat fra Herzogs “Caves of Forgotten Dreams”, hvor kun billedsiden bruges, netop ikke Herzogs umistelige essay i fortællestemmen.

Todd McCarthy på Hollywoodreporter.com ser venligere og med større forståelse på det her: ”On July 4, 2012, the results are finally obtained, to the joy of those assembled at CERN and in other smaller gatherings around the world. Among the crowd packed into the auditorium is aged British physicist Peter Higgs, for whom the elusive particle was named and who is seen removing his glasses and dabbing his eyes. It’s a well-earned moving climax to the film, as it’s evident that a major frontier has been conquered and new horizons opened up. A clip from Werner Herzog’s cave art documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams is used to again invoke the link between art and science in the search for coherence and meaning. For the more art-minded, seeing such an articulate and clear-headed elucidation by physicists of what they do results in an invigorating new insight into a vital realm of exploratory endeavor.”

Jeg smiler og tænker: hvor sødt – og foretrækker som art-minded i stedet at lytte til videnskaben, til fysikeren, den almindelige kvinde med almindelig begejstring, som i den sportsverden, hvor hun træner på mountainbike til og fra arbejde på CERN, i løb på landevejen i weekenden og roende støt og sikkert i fireren på søen sammen med venner. Så for mig er den lille stump af filmen, den korte scene med Peter Higgs, som kommer til stede, netop den erfarne filmklipper Walter Murchs udnyttelse af den mindste materialestump, som blot rummer et strejf af den autenticitet, som er afgørende for værkets helhed som noget, jeg tror på og bevæges af.

Peter Higgs

Her har jeg hele spændet af tid og følelse og arbejdsindsats: fra den gamle fysiske teoretiker, som påviste denne universelle byggesten til den unge eksperimenterende fysiker, som i den vældige organisation er med til at påvise higgspartiklens materielle eksistens. Hun kan forklare, så jeg forstår og især begejstres, så jeg følger med, emotionelt accepterende. Uden modstand.

USA 2013, 99 min.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/monica-dunford/myth-breaking-in-physics_b_5214404.html  (interviewet med Monica Dunford)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/particle-fever-film-review-646439  (anmeldelsen på Hollywoodreporter.com)

http://hub.jhu.edu/2014/03/21/particle-fever-director-levinson  (interview med Mark Levinson om produktionshistorien)

Riga – and Gustavs Klucis

The premiere was in 2008, in Riga, the film about Klucis, ”The Deconstruction of an Artist”. Directed by Peteris Krilovs. And here I stand in front of the Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art, where there is an exhibition of the artist (runs until October 26), a very good one and for one who knows his work from the film it is a pleasure to walk around and see all the posters and collages from the film, here hanging with no movements, in the film set in motion in an intelligent presentation and with a superb flown and rythm in the montage.

This is a quote from one of many texts, that has appeared on filmkommentaren.dk about the film:

”Latvian director Peteris Krilovs’ documentary about legendary artist Gustav Klucis took several prizes at the National award ceremony in Riga a week ago: best director, best editor (Danish Julie Vinten), best script (Pauls Bankovskis) and best sound mix (Andris Barons). A big triumph for the company Vides Film Studio and its energetic leader Uldis Cekulis.

So well deserved. The same team has just completed a film from Krilovs. ”Obliging Collaborators”. Here is a promotion text from the internet:

With this full-length documentary, director Pēteris Krilovs delves into an

intricate and intriguing period in modern Latvian history, his father’s death at the hands of the KGB intertwined with the underhanded game played by Soviet Latvian KGB agents against Swedish-English-American intelligence services. In the 1960s, a book was released and a feature film made, later, a pseudo-documentary TV series produced propagandising how Soviet agents fooled their Western counterparts. This “game” and its players and pawns are the focus of Krilovs’ documentary “Uz spēles Latvija”. The compelling personal history, the protagonists, the editing of archival materials, distinct and at times ironic, as well as the powerful visuals will help the viewer to navigate these little-known historical events.

I have seen the film in a Latvian version and yesterday in an English. Unfortunately the screening room for the latter had a bad sound transmission so I did not get the personal commentary from Krilovs. Will get back later with a review.

Riga – and Herz Frank

I am in Riga – again – to take part in a “Baltic Sea Region Documentary Film Research Seminar” arranged by LAC Riga Film Museum. It starts today and my job is to give a brief introduction to the Danish documentary fllm history. More about that in the coming days.

Last night I met with producer Guntis Trekteris to catch up on the theme: When is the premiere of ”Beyond The Fear”, the last film of Herz Frank, made in collaboration with Maria Kravchenko, who finished the work after the death of Frank.

Trekteris told me that idfa had rejected the film so the premiere will be in Riga as the opening film of the new Riga International Film Festival on the 2nd of December. The festival runs until the 12th of December and includes the European Film Academy Awards Ceremony. Also the film will be the opening film of the ArtDocFest in Moscow (December 9), run by renowned director Vitaly Mansky. It was Mansky, who said the following about Herz Frank: “Years will go by, and only 2-3 documentary film-makers will be remembered from each century.” But even today it is clear – Herz Frank is on that list for the 20th century!”

… and the photo is me in front of the beautiful plaque of Herz Frank in Lacplesa Street 29, Riga. Photo taken by Lelda Ozola early September when we still had “indian summer”!

EDN Interview with Claas Danielsen

Cecilie Bolvinkel from EDN is responsible for extensive ”Member of the Month” – interviews, that can be found on the website of the association. A fine one came out two days ago with Claas Danielsen because ” DOK Leipzig 2014 will be Claas’ last edition as Festival Director – EDN has talked to Claas about the festival’s past and present and his own future.” I have taken a text quote, but please read the whole interview, link below:

“The funding is and has been a huge challenge. It is as complicated as putting an international co-production together and the requirements literally get more bureaucratic every year. It’s unbelievable how many small sources of income we have to generate to make the festival happen.

Secondly, it was not easy to win the trust of many people closely connected to the festival who were suspicious of me as a “Wessi”, a person from western Germany. Having worked for an organisation branded by Discovery Channel before, some thought that I wanted to change their “Dok Film Week” into a TV festival. To modernise a festival with such a long tradition was a huge task for me.

Another challenge for every festival organiser is the competition between festivals for films and professionals attending. With IDFA only three weeks away, this of course is a problem for us like it is for the other autumn festivals.

My background as a filmmaker helped me to make a clear decision: I will not play the premiere game and only insist on a national premiere for films in competition. Although many world or international premieres end up in our four documentary competitions the decisive criterion for us is the artistic quality of each individual film. After ten years in this job, I still deeply believe that festivals should first and foremost serve the films – and not the vanity of festivals. To stop a documentary that had its national premiere in spring from traveling to festivals in other countries till the end of the year only to get the international premiere harms the film as it will be too old for the other events next year.

The most rewarding experience definitely is to see the general audience growing from year to year. People want to watch documentaries and better understand what’s happening in the world! To see young people storm the festival cinemas is extremely uplifting – especially as it proves decision makers in public TV wrong who claim that they can’t win an audience with this genre. The truth is that this audience has turned its back towards television, especially young people.

(photo credit Christian Hueller)

http://www.edn.dk/news/news-story/article/edn-member-of-the-month-claas-danielsen/?tx_ttnews[backPid]=220&cHash=c349da043e8362c03071abbfe98c9832

The Flaherty and Sergey Loznitsa

No week without good news from The Flaherty, this time the following newsletter came in:

The Flaherty is very pleased to enter into a new collaboration with Colgate University named the Colgate/Flaherty Distinguished Global Filmmaker. This project will fund a filmmaker’s travel to the US and a four-day residency including a series of interdisciplinary screenings and lectures.

Integrated into the itinerary is a Flaherty NYC screening, and, during the Colgate residency, a public event facilitated by the Flaherty NYC programmers. Each year the filmmaker visit will provide a significant means of examining the complexities surrounding documentary film, including the conceptual, logistical, political and aesthetic decisions involved – as well as contemporary theoretical concepts of the “global.”

This fall the Colgate/Flaherty Distinguished Global Filmmaker collaboration will bring acclaimed Russian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa to the Flaherty NYC screening series on Monday, November 3 at Anthology Film Archives in New York City, and to Colgate University for an intensive weeklong exploration of film and filmmaking. The project will run for three years, thanks to support from the Colgate University’s Office of the Provost and Dean of the Faculty and the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor CORE Fund. 

If you click the link above you get to know about the films of the director to be presented, as always good and useful information.

http://www.flahertyseminar.org 

Dan Reed: Terror at the Mall

Man kan se filmen alene for denne kvindes skyld. Hun og hendes to børn gennemlevede og overlevede Al Shabaabs mange mord på uskyldige den 21. september sidste år i Westgate indkøbscentret i Nairobi. Hendes lange, bemærkelsesværdigt kontrollerede og detaljerede vidnesbyrd indeholder på sin vis mere viden om den konkrete terror end hele dokumentarens dokumentation af begivenhederne på basis af Dan Reeds og klipperen Mark Towns’ fagligt opsigtsvækkende klippearbejde med en omhyggelig rekonstruktion af begivenhedsforløbet på grundlag af først og fremmest mere end tusind timers uredigeret materiale fra indkøbscentrets mange, mange overvågningskameraer, som, jeg ved ikke hvordan, Reed en dag havde i hånden i en harddisk. Reed fortæller:

”… Although I kept telling myself that if the news channels had not managed to obtain a full copy of the recordings with all their contacts and connections inside the country, I would have little chance of doing so and in fact had never set foot in Kenya before, I reminded myself that this was exactly how I felt at the beginning of another documentary I had made a few years ago about a high-profile urban siege (Terror in Mumbai, 2009) when I read a few excerpts from a transcript of intercepted mobile phone calls between the gunmen in Mumbai and their handlers in Pakistan and wondered whether it might somehow be possible to get hold of the unedited audio recordings. That had seemed like an equally impossible task, but one day there I was, clutching a memory stick containing the full recordings. And so I hoped I might have the same luck in Nairobi. A couple of months later, sure enough, I was holding a drive with more than a thousand hours of unedited security camera footage on it, a vastly greater quantity than had been leaked to the press in the days after the attack and more importantly a more or less continuous record of events on the ground floor – the key location where the four terrorists spent more than 48 of the 49 hours of the siege.”

Selvfølgelig kan man også se filmen for at beundre dette arbejde, som derudover inkluderede identifikation af mange, mange enkeltpersoner på disse optagelser, opsøgning af dem, utallige interviews med dem og yderligere indsamling af arkivstof og meget mere. Endelig en række fornemt håndterede  filmoptagelser som den med den rolige kvinde i sit hjem.

Og man kan se filmen for at beundre de første tilstedeværende, som egentlig reagerede adækvat på de voldsomme begivenheder, en bevæbnet forretningsmand ved navn Abdul Haji og sammen med ham en lille gruppe civilt klædte politifolk. De traf sammen den ultimative beslutning ikke at vente på forstærkning, men i stedet storme Westgate mall for at redde så mange som muligt. En enkelt fortælling blandt en række sideordnede gennem filmens forløb, alt holdt på plads af Michael Lumsden’s rolige, nøgterne fortællerstemme.

Men man kan også se filmen alene for denne kvindes skyld.

Med sit barn på armen så hun den dag en terrorist i øjnene og opdagede, at han også var et barn! Så, at de to børn vinkede og smilede til hinanden. Hun fortæller som kvinden før i en tilsvarende smukt filmet interviewscene historien tilsvarende mærkeligt kontrolleret og fuld af pludselig indsigt i den konkrete terrorists særlige emotionelle og intellektuelle status. Hun ser ham som et barn.

UK, BBC Two, 2014, 55 min. Sendes på DR2 Dokumania i morgen tirsdag 20:45

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5ZnV1xD1By1Sp6YDrsMjldm/terror-at-the-mall  

Dan Reed, filmografi

“Terror in Moscow” (2003) om en tjekensk gruppe af bevæbnede mænd og kvinder med selvmordsveste i en dagelang besættelse af et publikumsfyldt teater.

“Terror in Mumbai” (2009) om den pakistanske Lashkar-e-Taiba gruppes nedskydninger og bombninger på et hotel.

“Terror at the Mall” (2014)

Idfa and cph:dox 2014

After DOKLeipzig and Jihlava IDFF have announced their programme, these (idfa and cph:dox) two significant documentary festivals have press released selection decisions, ambitions and visions.

Idfa (November 19-30) first – take a look at the website, link below – seven competition sections, six non-competitive and eight so-called ”special focus”, including one on Heddy Honigmann, so well deserved, and Honigmann is also the one who has made the ”top ten”, which is always interesting: Which films have important directors chosen? Lovely to see films by Victor Erice, Fernando Birri and Wang Bing on the list as well as two films by Johan van der Keuken, one ”The Reading Lesson”, 10 mins., that I have never heard about. By the way, Honigmann’s great new film ” Around the World in 50 Concerts” opens the festival this year.

It is impossible to go through all categories, and title-dropping is boring but let me just express joy that Danish Camilla Nielsson’s ”Democrats” is in competition as well as Hanna Polak’s ”Something Better to Come” and Nima Sarvestani’s ”Those Who Said No”, all three films that I know about from workshops and pitch sessions, and all three films that characterise idfa as a place for social and political interpretation of our world today. Also happy to see Davis Simanis (photo ”upstairs” on our website) represented in the Panorama programme with his cinematic ”Escaping Riga” and Egyptian Nadine Salib’s ”Mother of the Unborn” (photo) in the ”First Appearance” competition.

Cph:dox (November 6-16) is launching its full programme today, monday the 13th, and we will talk about that as we have already done, announcing the opening film, ”1989” by Anders Østergaard. The festival, however, wants to be

much more than a film festival. Read this edited version of a press release that came out a week ago:

CPH:DOX launches a completely new programme called MEGATRENDS focusing on five of the fundamental changes that affect the world as we know it and will shape our common future. CPH:DOX and MEGATRENDS offer a cross-disciplinary programme of films, debates, events and interactive workshops dedicated to the latest social, technological and economic changes in the world.

“Our goal has always been to be the best documentary film festival in the world. With MEGATRENDS we now want to become the best documentary film festival for the world” says festival director Tine Fischer.

With MEGATRENDS, CPH:DOX aims to eventually create a completely new democratic forum for participation and reflection. A place that makes a qualitative inventory of the main concerns facing society, where everyone can learn about how to help shape and change the future.

Sustainability: RETHINKING RESOURCES – creative and constructive solutions to the climate crisis

The New Economy: MOVERS & MAKERS – open source, the maker movement and the digital paradigm shift

Inequality: POLARIZED – the growing economic inequality and its social consequences

Expanding technologies: WE ARE THE ROBOTS – revolutions in the field of technology, biology and psychology

A rediscovered continent: AFRICA RISING – the world_s highest growth rates are in Africa, but at what cost?…

Think Big, and YES, documentaries are there to raise debate and make us think, and react! They are gonna be busy the documentary viiewers in Amsterdam and Copenhagen!

http://www.idfa.nl/industry/festival/program-sections-awards.aspx

http://cphdoxnews.dk/d/nyhedsbrev.lasso?n=822

 

Jespersen & Farah: Krigerne fra Nord

Det er al ære værd, at DR ønsker at skabe debat omkring en films emne, som det er sket med Søren Steen Jespersen og Nasib Farahs “Krigerne fra Nord”, som – citat fra hjemmesiden – “handler om radikaliseringen og rekrutteringen af unge med somalisk baggrund i Vesten til terrororganisationen Al-Shabab, som hærger i Somalia.” Det er god public-service, at filmen før sin visning har været genstand for omfattende presse og debatarrangementer rundt i landet. Og det er godt, at DR støtter en film, hvis hensigt er sober oplysning for at få seerne til at forstå den menneskelige baggrund. Hvorfor blev de terrorister?

Sagen er bare, at filmen, som her skal anmeldes, ikke lykkes. Ét problem er naturligvis, at den medvirkende anonyme hovedperson, ”Skyggen”, netop fremstår billedmæssigt som en skygge. Det er så hvad det er, han skal beskyttes, men det går galt, når han skal fortælle sin historie. Det gør han ganske givet med egne ord, som er skrevet ned (ifølge pressematerialet af instruktøren) og så indtalt. Det skrevne i en oplæst udgave virker klodset og kunstigt. Det skurrer i ørerne. Ægtheden ryger.

Flere indvendinger: Der er helt sikkert intet i vejen med den journalistiske research, som er foretaget både her, i Somalia og i andre lande, men der er intet fokus i den visuelle fortælling. Der er ikke et filmisk forløb, der hoppes ind og ud af hovedhistorien, der ”illustreres” med klichébilleder fra højhusmiljøer og tilbage står en

fragmenteret velmenende historie fortalt af en modig ung mand, der er ude af Al-Shabab og står frem, omend som en skygge, og fortæller om det gode sammenhold han havde med sine venner, når de sad i Danmark og så videoer, udsendt af Al-Shabab og andre, der opfordrer til vold og terror. To af de tre venner har sprængt sig selv og mange andre i luften, den tredje er i Somalia, hans navn er Mohammed og hans far er Abukar, som i filmen forsøger at få kontakt til sin søn for at bede ham om at komme hjem. Med Abukar i billedet lykkes det ind imellem at gribe tilskueren. Kunne filmen være bygget op om ham og hans forsøg på at redde sin søn ud af terroristernes kløer?

Rundt omkring hovedhistorien er der så scener med unge fra andre lande, som med tørklæde om hovedet og våben i hånd præsenterer, hvorfor de er i Al-Shabab – og en enkelt afhopper der står frem uden forklædning. Plus frygtelige scener med optagelser af terroraktioner forårsaget bl.a. af ”Skyggen”s venner. Fik vi så svarene og dermed en større forståelse? Jo, ”Skyggen” var træt af at blive set ned på af danskerne og af at drikke sig stiv hvert andet øjeblik, men ellers? Det større perspektiv. Næh…

Filmen vises på DR, i dag søndag den 12. oktober.

Danmark, 2014, 58 mins.

http://www.madeincopenhagen.dk

Tiha K. Gudac: Naked Island

They have always been and they are still made, these gripping documentaries about people being arrested and sent to isolated islands for punishment. By the people in power. On this occasion, I remember several films on the camps on Makronissos in Greece, the best being one by Ilias Yannakakis and Evi Karabatsou from 2008. And now this important film from Croatia produced by the production company Factum, that has never hesitated to focus on controversial themes, untold stories from the past and the present. This time told by a granddaughter, who wants to know her family story. Starting point: Why was grandfather’s body full of scars?

It was not talked about, when he was alive. It was a taboo what happened in Yugoslavia during those years in the beginning of the 1950’es, when grandpa, ”an enemy of the state”, was away for four years. It took a generation to deal with it, it was the granddaughter, the film’s director, who wanted to bring the story to the world. Which became a painful journey in itself. She had to address her mother, her sister, her father and a couple of ”aunts and uncles”, who were also sent to the island and were close to Marijan, the grandpa.

The mother carries pain from her life. She has, to say the least,

problems with the control of her mood, she goes from being angry with her daughter, ”ask questions with warmth, this is not a theatre”, she shouts to her, being later very often in tears, when she talks about her parents and the silence that surrounded the past or she is the one, who goes with the daughter, Tiha, the director of the film, to the places, where the family lived. And to the island of torture at the end.

Tiha’s parents divorced, when she was four years old – why is it that relatives to people with a story as the one of my grandpa very often end up being divorced, she asks herself and the mother? Good question.

Does it sound like a sad film? It is, but there is also joy and happy moments conveyed through loads of private holiday photos from the Croatian coast. Grandpa, who died in 1992, was an important and caring person in the lives of Tiha and especially Lenka, her sister, who – like the mother – has moved away from Zagreb, away from the capital, where the power is and politics is decided.

In one of many moving scenes Lenka talks about how she regrets not having understood how important grandma was, when grandpa was alive. She was the one who kept it all together and prevented the nigtmares come out in daylight. But still there were the nightly screams from the sleeping room of grandpa.

What actually happened on the island is being told by aunts and uncles. Torture being performed on each other, how the days went along… Tiha asks questions and she gets answers. During the film she looks mostly unaffected but – and you ask yourself when it will happen – after the meeting with her father, she has to turn away from the camera, in tears.

It is an interview-based film and in between you think, if it had not been possible to arrange the visual side of the interviews a bit more elegant and cinematic, and maybe come up with the informative (wonderfully short) sequence about Tito and the break with USSR earlier in the film – anyway, what you get touches you and I almost agree with the mother saying towards the end to the daughter: The message of this film is that a deep wound can be healed.

http://factum.com.hr/en

Croatia, 2014, 75 mins.