Student Programme

The clock is ticking for a stranger, an immigrant, and older brother unable to prove family relations while facing the cold and unbearable bureaucracy of an unknown country in order to prevent the separation from his young sister. The film ultimately tells the universal story shown through the eyes of a family devastated by the cold bureaucratic system.

Croatia, Belgium | 2019 | 19' 
drama  

DIRECTOR Lovro Mrđen | SCREENPLAY Mario Piragić | CINEMATOGRAPHY Vedran Rapo | EDITOR Zorana Rajić | CAST Ena-Sanan Hdagha, Elie Joseph Njeim, Hrvojka Begović, Katarina Bistrović Drvaš, Nur Asfour, Mohammed Abd Ali Abdulasattar, Frano Mašković | PRODUCER Dalia Alić | SCHOOL Academy of Dramatic Art, Zagreb, Croatia / LUCA, School of Arts, Belgium

FESTIVALS Zagreb Film Festival 2019, Dhaka International Film Festival 2020 (Best Short Film), Short of The Year, Madrid 2019

Lovro Mrđen (Zagreb, 1994) is a student of directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art and author of awarded short films, documentary films, commercials, and music videos (Fabijan, Patrola Uran, etc).