ABOUT THE MOVIE
Josipa struggles with the consequences of sexual abuse that she suffered from the age of 4 to 12. Senad starts filming a movie about her. Joining Josipa's life he is no longer an objective filmmaker, but also becomes the protagonist of the film. Senad's life is also dramatically changing. The film is transformed into a personal, intimate, frantic and brutally honest story of the extremely unusual relationship of two people. Throughout the entire film, we look at the face of a young girl who, with almost unstoppable rhythm, leaps from pain, sorrow, anger and panic fear of leaving, to black humor, childish joy, and intellectual diagnosis of her own abnormality. The other protagonist (whom we do not see but we hear him) is trying to fix what some other people have broken up for a long time ago… we also see his struggle with his own decisions. The tale is full of twists and turns, yet so warm, human and simple, shot and edited as weird as its characters. Whatever you think about Senad and Josipa's moves and attitudes, where there is so much unconditional love and sincerity, we can only love the characters... at least we as filmmakers believe so.
Jadranka Cicvarić Šiftar
I was born in 1961 in Slavonski Brod. In 1985 I graduated from Industrial Electronics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Zagreb. My career was, in the beginning, quite unusual and varied. I found personal satisfaction and passion as a longtime screenwriter and producer of documentaries and TV projects. I started to direct my own films from 2013 onwards (I have been focusing exclusively on the documentary on personal preference and decision). My documentary film Children's Intensive Care Unit was declared one of the top ten Croatian documentaries in 2017. by documentarni.net - that was the key point that encouraged me and my colleague Senad to offer JOSIPA, I LOVE YOU to film festivals. I'm currently working on a documetary film that I'm planning to work for three or four years, and on a TV documentary series and a more demanding TV documentary.
Senad Zemunović
Senad Zemunović was born 12.5.1981. in Pakrac. In 2005 he entered the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. As a photographer, he worked for the weekly Nacional and Focus, a photo editor of the Monthly Scuba Life and Hairstyle magazine. As a cameraman and a steadicam operator, he worked on the Mamutica, Mamutica 2, Pretty Ratkajevih, Loza, Voice of the Nations, Neanderthal Story and several short feature films.As director of photography and filmmaker he worked on documentary films THE WITCH, She is to blame, One breath, STATE VS CHILD, CSI Croatia, Butterflies and Sparrows, Unusual Flowers of Croatia, Childrens’ Intensive Care Unit, Documentary Series Face with Cover, Music Concepts, CSI Croatia, quiz show Quiz situation.
