Bigger Than Trauma

Thursday, September 15 at 18:20
Art kino Croatia
Director: Vedrana Pribačić, Mirta Puhlovski
Producer: Mirta Puhlovski
Country of origin: Croatia, 2022
Runtime: 90'

SUMMARY

If you had survived a war and the past still weighed heavy on you, what would you do to regain the joy of living?

Twenty-five years after Croatian War of Independence, the surviving women have not healed. The justice system is slow, the legal process of fact-finding is agonizing and government support largely translates into tranquilizers and silence. Many families still live near the very men who raped and tortured them, and surrounded by trauma, they exist in the past, unable to move forward. Katica, Ana and Marija attend a pioneering program that invites both Serbian and Croatian women to try deep, reformative personal therapy together. Intimate cameras witness them examining photos of themselves before the war and skeptically trying physical touch exercises. Frictions within the group erupt along cultural lines, reinforcing past pain, but this is precisely what is required to cultivate acceptance and peace. For three years, they share their most private, damaging thoughts and by virtue of their own courage transform from collateral damage of an old war to more empowered women living today.

Director Biography

Vedrana Pribačić is a Croatian journalist, director and screenwriter. She holds a Master’s degree in Politics, University of Political Science in Zagreb. She is a member of HDFD ( Croatian Association of Film Professionals). She has been working as a TV reporter and editor in chief since 2000 on various TV channels (OTV, NOVA TV, RTL, CNN World View ). In 2016 she made her first 45’ minute documentary for national television. The film was presented at several festivals in Europe and awarded on Croatian festivals. In 2017 she started developing her director’s debut “Bigger Than Trauma”, and she’s been working on it for five years. With this project she was part of several professional pitching forums and workshops such as FOCAL’s intensive European residential masterclass, Docu Rough Boutique (Sarajevo F.F. & Balkan Documentary Centre 2020), When East Meets West pitching forum (Trieste, 2019), FEST Portugal, Zagrebdoxpro (Zagreb,2019), Rough Cut Lab Movies that Matter (Haag, 2021) and more.
ISTRA FILM presents HISTORY FILM FESTIVAL
Program manager and director TIHA MODRIĆ
Producers TIHA MODRIĆ & DEJAN BOJC
Video production ROBERT KALČIĆ & IGOR MODRIĆ
Designer ROBERT KRANČIĆ
Photography RINO GROPUZZO
Graphic & web design GRAFIK, Rijeka
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