LFF LAUREAT
- najbolji film
ABOUT THE MOVIE
Silvestar has for some time been the oldest Kolbas in his family. His parents are dead; his father died before the war, his mother a few years back. He is 68. He had a younger brother, who died from the consequences of the war. This is his second marriage. He has three children: Jakov, from his first marriage; Eva, from his second marriage, conceived in vitro; and Ante, adopted from an orphanage when he was 8. Some of the questions the director asks in this film are: How the children affect the feelings and opinions, as well as the relationship between himself and his wife? How does he affect each child? What is his relationship with each of the children, and does he give them all equal amounts of love? Do the children change him? Does each of them do it differently? How do the children see him and his wife and how do they see their parents’ attitude towards themselves?
Silvestar Kolbas
Silvestar Kolbas is a photographer, cinematographer, and director. He was born in Petrovci in 1956, and graduated in Film and TV Camera in 1982 from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. Today he is a full-time professor at the same institution.Early in his professional career he works as freelance photographer and cinematographer. Then he starts working for Croatian Television on numerous TV programs, reports, and TV films; later, he becomes a top TV cinematographer. He had photo exhibitions, he wrote and edited papers about cinematography, directed two feature films and numerous short and TV films, series and documentaries.He had his directorial debut in 2003, with his acclaimed autobiographical documentary film All About Eva. He has mostly been engaged in feature-length documentaries: Life in Fresh Air, Lucky Child, Lora – Testimonies, Mimara Revisited. His medium-length documentary War Reporter, produced by Factum, won him the annual Vladimir Nazor Award for Film in 2011.
