ABOUT THE MOVIE
1001 Nights tells the story of EMA (85) and MAJA (80), the most loyal viewers and the funniest critics of Turkish soap operas. For the last five years, Ema and Maja have spent every evening together, watching Turkish series in Ema’s apartment in the Mediterranean town Split as a way of coping with loneliness. This is a story about a microcosmos that appears where we least expect it, but when we need it the most. It is a story of a friendship that started when everything else ended.
Rea Rajčić
Rea Rajčić (1989, Split, Croatia) earned her master's degree in film production at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, where she now works as a professor. She founded her independent production company, Eclectica, in 2015 to focus on auteur-driven feature and documentary film projects with strong audience potential, primarily working with emerging directors. She received the award for Best Young Producer at the Sofia International Film Festival in 2016 and has won Best Pitching awards at European Short Pitch 2019, Sofia Meetings 2019, Connecting Cottbus 2020, and CineMart IFFR 2022 with various feature projects. She was part of Emerging Producers and the Rotterdam Lab in 2020. 1001 Nights is her first professional film as a director.
