Then Comes the Evening

Synopsis

The documentary depicts life of two grannies living isolated on the hills of Eastern Bosnia. Nature is the entity with which grannies speak, listen to and respect. The film emphasizes the intangible cultural heritage, through the presentation of chants and rituals for taming the adverse weather, hail, and storm. It reflects the simplicity and purity of their way of life, as well as their painstaking work. In the daily activities that they perform, the excellence and distress of these displays is revealed and revived. Everyday life shows the caring and intimacy of the grannies, both in their mutual relations and in relationship with nature. Poetic tone of the frames relies on references from genre scenes of realism paintings, creating documents of bittersweet everyday life in the countryside.

Director Biography

Maja Novaković (1987, Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina) holds a Master’s degree in Art History from Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, Serbia where she is working on PhD with registered thesis "Poetics of heritage in the works of Sergei Parajanov". She is researcher at the Centre for Museology and Heritology at the same university, and works as a research assistant at the Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.