Paradaïz

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Paradaïz

Paradaïz
Matea Radic
International Competition Animated Film
Animated Film
Canada
2025
10 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None
German premiere

There is no return to paradise. There is a rupture between now and then, the realisation that this place no longer exists. Our protagonist, too, must learn this when she lifts the green of the map beneath her like a blanket to crawl under it with a tomato in her hand – back to Sarajevo, to Yugoslavia. Initially, the strangeness of the return flight with its obligatory tomato juice is as nostalgically exciting as the smiley stickers that are everywhere. But by the time she reaches her parents’ home, the past catches up with her completely: In the corridor of the deserted flat, bullet holes cast cones of light on old family photos and when she opens the fridge, the sight of a single tomato suddenly triggers memories of bombs and explosions.
Matea Radic finds haunting and original images to visualise her own traumatic experience of the Bosnian War and its confusing entanglement with her haptic and sensual childhood memories – complete with Dadaistic advertisements for Šipad furniture and Bosnian melodies. Her generous and yet spare animation style brings out the childlike wonder of her protagonist beautifully. She stalks through the world with scraped knees in a babydoll dress. And she learns that it is sometimes okay not to stick a smiley on things but perhaps a band-aid.


Marie Ketzscher

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28.10.
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Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Matea Radic
Producer
Jelena Popović
Sound Design
Tyler Fitzmaurice
Score
Tyler Fitzmaurice
Animation
Matea Radic
Animation Technique
Drawn, 2D Digital

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Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award, Gedanken Aufschluss Prize