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Filmstill The Family Portrait

The Family Portrait

Obiteljski portret
Lea Vidaković
International Competition Animated Film 2023
Animated Film
Croatia,
France,
Serbia
2023
14 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

András and his daughter Zsófia enjoy a relaxed Sunday in their stately city mansion, just before the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. But soon the silence in the house is disturbed by an escaped pig, closely followed by an unexpected visit: András’ brother, his large family and lots of luggage barge in through the front door. Running children and garrulous relatives bring noise and bedlam to all floors. Art objects are handled without permission, furniture is moved, objects fall to the ground. The visitors have brought chaos. Zsófia’s father and the maid try in vain to restore calm and order. Though András and his brother get closer to each other, the old house is not up to the changed circumstances. A leaking water pipe heralds a finale that at least makes them all stand still together.

Franka Sachse

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Lea Vidaković
Script
Lea Vidaković
Cinematographer
Lea Vidaković, Damien Buquen
Editor
Iva Kraljević
Producer
Draško Ivezić, Jean Francois le Corre, Nikolina Vucetic Zecevic
Sound Design
Zoran Maksimovic
Animation
Marion le Guillou, Bilitis Levillain, Violette Delvoye
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Filmstill The Other Side of Everything

The Other Side of Everything

Druga strana svega
Mila Turajlić
Homage Mila Turajlić 2022
Documentary Film
Serbia,
France,
Qatar
2017
104 minutes
Serbian
Subtitles: 
English

A door that has been closed for seventy years serves as a MacGuffin in Mila Turajlić’s double portrait of her mother and her mother country of Yugoslavia. That very door has divided the bourgeois family apartment ever since Tito’s communists assigned several rooms to proletarians in need of shelter. Srbijanka Turajlić never cared a fig for her neighbours. But when Serbian nationalists began to threaten the unity of her country, she turned into a fierce opponent of the Milošević regime. In a virtuoso montage of archive material and conversations with her mother, the filmmaker recaps the latter’s development while gaining a new perspective on the time of her own youth.

Christoph Terhechte

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Mila Turajlić
Cinematographer
Mila Turajlić
Editor
Aleksandra Milovanovic, Sylvie Gadmer
Producer
Mila Turajlić, Carine Chichkowsky
Sound
Aleksandar Protić
Score
Jonathan Morali