More than two decades after the final shots were fired in the war that gave Croatia independence from the former Yugoslavia, the long shadows of that bitter and divisive conflict stretch across the Balkan nation.
“In Croatia…we cannot get over our history,” says director Nebojsa Slijepcevic. “The whole system…keeps us stuck in the past.”
Slijepcevic explores that somber reality in “Srbenka,” a documentary that looks at the persistent ethnic divide in modern-day Croatia, told in part through the lens of a 12-year-old girl coming to terms with her own identity. The winner of the Doc Alliance Award in Cannes this year, the film will unspool this week at the Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival.
Slijepcevic began shooting “Srbenka” in 2014 while filming the preparations for a new play by the provocative theater director Oliver Frljic, about the brutal killing of a 12-year-old ethnic Serbian girl during the war.
“In Croatia…we cannot get over our history,” says director Nebojsa Slijepcevic. “The whole system…keeps us stuck in the past.”
Slijepcevic explores that somber reality in “Srbenka,” a documentary that looks at the persistent ethnic divide in modern-day Croatia, told in part through the lens of a 12-year-old girl coming to terms with her own identity. The winner of the Doc Alliance Award in Cannes this year, the film will unspool this week at the Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival.
Slijepcevic began shooting “Srbenka” in 2014 while filming the preparations for a new play by the provocative theater director Oliver Frljic, about the brutal killing of a 12-year-old ethnic Serbian girl during the war.
- 10/25/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
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