Sara Stijović

Occupied Croatia, 1991. An army major reluctantly agress to take care of a cow that's been left for dead in a recently abanndoned building, however, taking care of the creature reveals deeper truths about the human nature to him.

Due to the untimely death of her husband, Jelena spends the whole year in a tangle of feelings of endless sadness and guilty conscience. This depressing routine is broken one day by a visit from her mother, Andja, who brings a pot of her famous chicken soup.

Unresolved emotions between mother and son, come to surface as decluttering a room becomes a challenge for both.

Gina was a Montenegrin girl who had become a political prisoner in the 1950s in the ex-Yugoslavia. The story follows Marina, Gina’s niece, on her way to the prison she is visiting for the second time – the first time as a baby seen in a photograph and now as an elderly lady. Together, we are bringing the female side of the Yugoslavian camps, and questioning how many generations it takes to overcome a trauma.