Srbenka

Synopsis

In the winter of 1991, a 12-year old Serbian girl was murdered in Zagreb. Quarter of century later director Oliver Frljić is working on a theatre play about the case. Rehearsals become a collective psychotherapy, and the 12-year old actress Nina feels as if the war had never ended.

Director Biography

Nebojsa Slijepcevic was born in 1973 in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2005 he graduated with Film Directing from the Academy of Drama and Art, also in Zagreb. He directed numerous TV documentaries and series (Direkt, Staying Alive, City Folk), but also creative and author driven documentaries (Real Man’s Film, In 4 Years, Of Cows and People) for which he received awards from various festivals (EDN talent grant at Sarajevo FF, human rights award at Sarajevo FF, best director at Verona FF, Audience award at Zagreb Dox…). Nebojsa is also the author of a short animated film Dog / Rabbit and a short fiction Slap in the Face, which is part of the fiction omnibus Zagreb Stories, and the festival awarded feature documentary Gangster of Love.