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Wednesday, September 11 at 17:00

Director: Miroslav Mandić

Country of origin: Croatia, 2023

Runtime: 15'

Croatian Premiere

SUMMARY

Olive is floating on the sea surface. We personify it, urged by our anthropocentricity. The waves overflowing the rocks remind us of human breathing. But nature thinks and feels differently. To her, we are only one of the elements, not the central one. Is embrace between nature and human race truly an expression of love?

Director Biography

Miroslav Mandic was born in Sarajevo. He graduated film directing and screenwriting at Columbia University in New York. After a brief career in native Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the war of the 1990s he immigrated to the Czech Republic, where he directed numerous documentaries. Since 2005 he has lived and worked in Slovenia. Mandic wrote and directed ‘Borderline lovers’ (1h 25min // 2005, feature documentary), which premiered at Locarno IFF, won Golden Letter award for best documentary at Munchen FF and Human Rights Award at Sarajevo FF. His fiction features Adria Blues (1h 31min // 2013) and I Act, I am (1h 45 min // 2018) have premiered at Karlovy Vary FF and Cairo FF respectively. His latest feature film ‘Sanremo’ (1h 30 min // 2020) has played at more than 20 international festivals, including Tallinn, Sao Paolo, Shanghai, Seattle and Melbourne. Sanremo was a Slovenian candidate for the foreign language Academy Award.

ISTRA FILM predstavlja HISTORY FILM FESTIVAL

Izvršna direktorica TIHA MODRIĆ

Producenti TIHA MODRIĆ & DEJAN BOJC

Video produkcija ROBERT KALČIĆ & IGOR MODRIĆ

Dizajner ROBERT KRANČIĆ

Fotografije RINO GROPUZZO

Grafičko i web oblikovanje GRAFIK, Rijeka