23.LFF
Opatija
26.-30.08.2025.

Film

Valerija

(Croatian premiere)
LFF21, Out of competition, Restart films

ABOUT THE MOVIE

This hybrid film takes us on a journey into a world without men. Reality and subconscious mixes in an intimate encounter with ancestresses. The author silently questions: „How does it feel to have a family tree consisting only of women? What do our ancestresses whisper from their silent portraits?”.

Sara Jurinčić

Filmmaker and architect from Croatia, based in Copenhagen. Collaborated and exhibited with: W.O.R.M. Rotterdam, Klubvizija, CAFx, KONTEJNER. From 2018. on she established NOMAD STUDIO and VOID LAB, art and spatial experiment labs. In 2019. and 2020. she has been part of Sarajevo Talents, EW Talent lab and Dok Leipzig WIP. Her debut film won multiple awards and was shown on more than 30 international film festivals, including Oberhausen film festival's intenational competition. Her new experimental-documentary film “Valerija” just had its world premiere at Sheffield DocFest in June 2023.

Title: Valerija
Year of production: 2023
Duration: 15
Director: Sara Jurinčić
Screenplay: Sara Jurinčić
Photography: Ivan Slipčević
Sound design: Christian Bo Johansen
Production: Valerija
Production company: Restart