feature | fiction | drama
based on a novel DARK MOTHER EARTH by Kristian Novak
storyline: In a small village in Croatia, during 2 months in 1991, 8 unexplained suicides occurred. 7-year-old Matija was somehow connected to all of them. 20 years later he keeps reinventing his own past and memories that never happened. When he loses his girlfriend over it, he embarks on a personal quest to regain the memory of his childhood, of the death of his father, eight suicides, two demons, losing a friend and the onset of a war in Croatia.
production: Antitalent producers: Katarina Prpić, Danijel Pek
workshops/markets: TorinoFilmLab Script Lab 2017, WEMW 2018 supported by: RE-ACT, Croatian Audiovisual Centre (script and project development support, film production support), MEDIA, Slovenian Film Centre (development support), Austrian Film Institute (development support) status: project development
ČRNA MATI ZEMLA (orig. title)
feature | fiction | drama
based on a novel DARK MOTHER EARTH by Kristian Novak
storyline: In a small village in Croatia, during 2 months in 1991, 8 unexplained suicides occurred. 7-year-old Matija was somehow connected to all of them. 20 years later he keeps reinventing his own past and memories that never happened. When he loses his girlfriend over it, he embarks on a personal quest to regain the memory of his childhood, of the death of his father, eight suicides, two demons, losing a friend and the onset of a war in Croatia.
production: Antitalent
producers: Katarina Prpić, Danijel Pek
workshops/markets: TorinoFilmLab Script Lab 2017, WEMW 2018
supported by: RE-ACT, Croatian Audiovisual Centre (script and project development support, film production support), MEDIA, Slovenian Film Centre (development support), Austrian Film Institute (development support)
status: project development