ABOUT THE MOVIE
The life story and artistic career of Borivoj Dovniković Bordo were shaped by historical shifts in epochal socio-political systems. These shifts, from the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Independent State of Croatia, socialist Yugoslavia, to the Republic of Croatia, are clearly discernible in the work of this world-renowned animator, whom film critics have called the Advocate of the Common Man. Through autobiographical testimonies and reinterpretations of his works, the author’s life is brought into direct connection with his ingeniously lavish artistic achievements, comics, animated films and caricatures, with a special emphasis on the timeless animation etude about his notable piece Learning to Walk. In constant conflict with socio-political precepts and natural laws, Bordo speaks about the freedom of creativity and seeks an answer to the eternal question; is there a systematic environment in which we really and truly walk or do we walk lamely, as his universal hero does
Jelena Novaković
Jelena Novaković was born in 1980 in Zagreb. She graduated from departments of sociology and information science at Faculty of Social Sciences in Zagreb. At the moment she is finishing the specialized master course in "European Studies" on the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb. She has 10 years of work experience – she has been working for local and international organizations. She is employed in British Council on the projects of reform of state administration. In 2009 she attended film workshop ''Attack – Medika'', and in 2011 she finished Restart’s school of documentary film. She volunteered on ZagrebDox and she is shooting and editing short films as a hobby.
Festivals where the film was screened:
- 2025 Beldocs (Beograd, RS) Vatromet
- 2025 Underhillfest (Podgorica, ME) regionalna konkurencija
- 2025 Festival mediteranskog filma (Split, HR) Mediteran
- 2025 Revija dokumentarnog filma (Mojkovac, Pljevlje, Kotor, Plužine, Žabljak, Zeta, Berane, ME) glavni program
- 2025 Supertoon (Šibenik, HR) posebna projekcija
