Deserters
- Title: Deserters
- Year of production: 2022
- Duration: 45`
- Director: Damir Markovina
- Screenwriter: Damir Markovina
- Camera: Krešimir Štulina
- Sound: Miroslav Piškulić
- Editing: Dora Slakoper
- Music: Manja Ristić
- Producer: Damir Markovina
- Production: ADU Zagreb
A film about a generation of Bosnian youth from the city of Mostar swept by the devastating war at the brink of the their maturity and tough decision to escape from it. Their exile stories from 90's, contained in letters mailed to the director of this film from refugee camps scattered across Europe are confronted with present condition of the city they were forced to leave. A film about missing generation, exile, hard choices and the answer to the most difficult question of any war: to stay or to run?
Director:
Damir Markovina was born in 1973. in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He graduated at MA of Film and TV Directing (Documentary film) at Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, Croatia in 2022, after his degree in Acting, also at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, Croatia. He has performed as an actor in many...
Festivals where it was shown:
- 2022. - Ji.Hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Opus Bonum competition) (Jihlava, CZ)
- 2023. - Trieste film festival (documentary competition) (Trieste, IT)
- 2023. - ZagrebDox (regional competition) (Zagreb, HR)
- 2023. - Sarajevo Film Festival (documentary competition) (Sarajevo, BA)
- 2023. - MakeDox (student competition) (Skopje, MK)
Awards and recongitions
- Ji.Hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2022 - Best Central and East European film
- Ji.Hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2022 - Best sound design
- ZagrebDox 2023 - special mention (Movies That Matter)
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