ABOUT THE MOVIE
Tatjana is lonely. Born in Croatia, she has lived across Europe before settling in Amsterdam. Fifteen years later, her teenage son avoids bringing friends home, embarrassed by her dreadful Slavic accent and her lack of Dutch composure. But the real trouble is bigger: Tatjana feels foreign everywhere. Determined to belong, she starts knocking on doors across Europe, asking relatives and friends how they did it. Stumbling through cultural misfires and everyday bias, she finally confronts an old pattern in her own family history.
Tatjana Božić
was born in Karlovac in 1971. She moved to Moscow in 1986 and took her degree in TV Journalism from the Moscow State University Lomonosov. From 1993 to 1996 she attended postgraduate studies at the Documentary Department of the Directing and Screenwriting College in Moscow. Her graduation work, „ProvincialGirls“ (co-directed with Frank Mueller) won a Grand Prix for Best Russian Documentary Film at the festival in Ekaterinburg. In 1998, the script for her documentary film „My Home Town“ received financial support from the Soros Documentary Fund. In 1999, she co-founded Fade In production studio, together with Hrvoje Mabić and Marko Zdravković. It is a non-profit production studio focused on socially committed films and civil society issues. In 2002 and 2003 she directed, shot and edited „A Woman with a Camera“, a series of intimate travel documentaries.
Festivals where the film was screened:
- 2026 Zagreb Dox (Zagreb, HR) - Regional Competition
- 2026 Dok Fest München (München, DE) - LifeTogether
- 2026 Sarajevo Film Festival (Sarajevo, BA) - Competition Program - Documentaries
