Aurora’s Dream

Synopsis

What happens when beauty is asleep?
Aurora’s Dream explores the collective unconscious during a period of contemporary crisis. Individual participants share their most vivid and personal dreams. The subconscious narratives visually intertwine with the turbulence of our present era, bringing archetypes and motifs from the Sleeping Beauty fairytale to the fore.

Director Biography

Dragana Jovanović obtained a postgraduate degree at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in Germany. Her studies focused on Film Directing and Writing. She also holds a bachelor's degree in Production and Cultural Management from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at the University of Arts Belgrade in Serbia. Her graduation short fictional film ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PILLOW A ROSE WAS BLOSSOMING (2018) was nominated by the German Film Academy for the First Steps Award and it was screened in numerous international film festivals such as Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers, ISFF Oberhausen, DRAMA ISFF, among others. Jovanovic’s films explore the collective unconscious by interpreting archetypes of folk and fairy tales and ancient mythology, and placing these narratives in contemporary contexts. Her focus centers on capturing her characters' inner worlds, revealing the interplay between their subconscious realms and their present-day realities. Her most recent work, AURORA'S DREAM (2023) won best cinematography award at Beldocs 2023, and had its international premiere at First Film Competition at FID Marseille 2023.