KINO LIKA 

feature, 122min, Croatia&Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2008.  
35mm, color, production: Kinorama, HRT, Porta

 

directed by: Dalibor Matanić 
written by: Dalibor Matanić, Milan F. Živković 
based on a book by: Damir Karakaš

starring: Krešimir Mikić, Areta Ćurković, Ivo Gregurević, Danko Ljuština, Jasna Žalica, Milan Pleština, Nada Gaćešić Livaković, Dara Vukić Vrca, Marija Tadić, Damir Karakaš & Milivoj Beader, Petar Tudja

producer: Ankica Jurić Tilić 

director of photography: Branko Linta
editor: Tomislav Pavlic
music: Jura Ferina & Pavao MIholjević
art director: Željka Burić
costumes: Ana Savić Gecan
make-up: Mojca Gorogranc
sound: Mladen Pervan, Dubravka Premar, Gordan Fučkar
assistant director: Dragan Jurić

 

 

story

A godforsaken mountain village is the only home that a young football player, a miser peasant and a fat girl have. This isolated part of the country finds itself in the middle of the referendum for or against the EU. Our characters couldn’t care less – they are absorbed in their problems. The young football player who accidentally killed his mother doesn’t want to join a rich foreign football team and is willing to risk his father’s love because of it. The lonely fat girl is so desperate for a friend and for a lover that she will end up seeking both in the pig-sty. The miser peasant will find out that the real misery is in loneliness.

 

thought

• invisible people with invisible problems 
• grandma's sheep Dojo who is still there somewhere in mountains 
• band Arcade fire, album "Neon Bible"

 

effect 

Pula film festival: best debut award (Areta Ćurković), best supporting actress (Nada Gaćešić Livaković), best make-up (Mojca Gorogranc)

Sarajevo ff - Cinelink award 

Montpellier ff - youth jury award

Hamburg ff

Northern film festival (Noordelijk ff) - Matad'or - best film & student jury award

European ff Lecce - Golden Olive - best film & Gallipoli mention 

Eastern neighbours, Utrecht

Manaki brothers, Bitola

Funchal ff, Madeira

LIFFE, Ljubljana

Auteurs ff, Belgrade

Alexandria ff - Best director award

 

20.000 admissions in Croatian cinemas 

 

 
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