ABOUT THE MOVIE
A Year of Endless Days follows film director Renata Lučić on a visit to her father, who lives in rural Croatia. Her birthplace is a mostly abandoned village with loads of beauty, but very little to offer. It is also a place she delightfully abandoned as soon as she turned 18. Her father Tomo and his best friend Joso stayed there. They were both left by their wives, who went to Austria and Germany. The two men live alone and hang out on a regular basis. Renata interrupts their daily routine. Worried over her father’s loneliness, she is trying to get to know and understand him better, as well as comprehend why her family fell apart.
Renata Lučić
Renata Lučić is a Croatian film director and screenwriter, born in 1991. Graduated Film and TV directing at the Academy of Dramatic Arts Zagreb and History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Zagreb. Her short film ”Fifth Floor On The Left” was premiered at the Wicked Queer Boston Film Festival and her documentary ”As Far As Our Feet Take Us” won few awards around the world for the best documentary and audience award. At the moment working on her short film ”2000” and her first feature film ”Ana”. In her authorial works, she mainly deals with intimate topics such as family and relationships.
Festivals where the film was screened:
- 2024 DOKLeipzig (Leipzig, DE) Panorama: Central and Eastern Europe
- 2025 ZagrebDox (Zagreb, HR) Regionalna konkurencija
- 2025 VOX Feminae Festival (Zagreb, HR) Glavni program
- 2025 Festival europskog filma Palić (Palić, RS) New European Documentary Film
