Student Programme

In the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, two teenagers pursue young love in a region where violence may be inescapable.

USA, France | 2018 | 24' 
drama | CROATIAN PREMIERE

DIRECTOR Jianna Maarten Saada | SCREENPLAY Jianna Maarten Saada | CINEMATOGRAPHY Marcin Banasiak | EDITOR Aashish Dmello | SCORE Bartlomiej Gliniak | CAST Vanessa Benavente, Victor Boneva, David Gurrola, Dylan Bruno | PRODUCER Daria Suvorova | CO-PRODUCER François Morisset | SCHOOL AFI / American Film Institute 

FESTIVALS Santa Barbara 2018 (Youth Jury Award), Seattle International Film Fest 2019 (Short Film Award, Grand Jury Prize), Ivy Film Festival 2019 (Audience Award and Best of Fest Prize)

Jianna Maarten Saada got her degrees in storytelling as a director at the American Film Institute's Conservatory programme as well as Columbia's prestigious Creative Writing programme.