ABIDANCE – DOCUMENTARY FILM

Directed by: Anja Strelec, Tomislava Jukić

Dop: Anja Strelec

Edited by: Denis Golenja

Produced by: Vanja Jambrović, Tibor Keser

Music by: Iva Galovic, Tvrtko Hrelec

Financial support: Croatian audiovisual center

Production company: Restart, ESAV

Unusual quotidian which is shared by 3 generations: grandmother, mother and granddaughter.

The film takes place in a nursing home where mother is working for years. Grandmother used to be a headmaster of the same nursing home and she devoted her life to it. Now she is just one of the inhabitants. She doesn’t want to accept the weakness of old age.

The granddaughter is trying to animate the grandmother with her camera but their play is interrupted every time mother enters the room and reality becomes the main character. Memories are built to keep grandmother alive but her desire to leave is too strong. That brings out the question: For whom is harder, for the ones who want to leave us or for the ones who stay? 

Screenings:

MEDITERRANEAN FILM FESTIVAL SPLIT 2016, Split, CRO – special program / premiere (9.6.2016)

SMR 13 FILM FESTIVAL 2016, Manare Saint Mitre Les Remparts, France

INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL OF IERAPETRA, Greece

FESTIVAL NOVIH, Slavonski Brod, Croatia

JAHORINA FILM FESTIVAL, Bosnia and Hercegovina

GALLUP FILM FESTIVAL, New Mexico

TOUR FILM FESTIVAL, Rome

CABO VERDE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

VOXFEMINE FILM FESTIVAL, Zagreb(Croatia)

Headline International Film Festival (United States)

ERIE FILM FESTIVAL (UNITED STATES)

Annual Copenhagen Film Festival

Nevada Women’s Film Festival

The WE film festival (Netherlands)

Dani hrvatskog filma (Croatia)

Santa Cruz International Film Festival (Argentina)

Motovun film festival campus (Croatia)

Dalmatia film festival (Croatia)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS:

Oporto Superior Artístic School – ESAP (Porto, Portugal)

ESAV – École Supérieure d’AudioVisuel (Toulouse, France)

AWARDS:

INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL OF IERAPETRA 2016., Ierapetra, Greece – audience award

FESTIVAL NOVIH 2016., Slavonski Brod, Croatia – award for the 2nd best film