Zvjerka (The Beast)
2015 | 20min | SLAVICA FILM & NAPA FILMS
A hundred year old woman called Nada and her 75-year old daughter Vera have a tense but familiar relationship. The childlike Vera takes care of her frail, mute though at times cruel, mother until one evening a bat flies into Nada's room and starts hibernating underneath her bed. The animal's presence gradually reinvigorates the old woman, eternally and fatally changing the relationship between mother and daughter.
director & writer DAINA O. PUSIC | producers ANAMARIA HENNESSY & MIRTA PUHLOVSKI | co-producer LIISA KARPO | director of photography ARTHUR MULHERN | sound designer & composer TONI TEIVAALA
FESTIVALS:
WORLD PREMIERE at the 42nd Telluride Int. Film Fest 2015 | HONOURABLE MENTION at the Slamdance Film Festival 2016 | MOST POPULAR FILM at 13th Vienna Int. Shorts 2016 | 41st Odense International FF 2016 | HONOURABLE MENTION at the 15th Macabro Int. FF 2016 | BEST SHORT FICTION at the LA Film Festival 2016 | BEST CROATIAN SHORT at the 13th Zagreb FF 2015 | SPECIAL MENTION at In the Palace Sofia Int. Short Fest 2015 | 46th Tampere Int. Film Fest 2016 | Go Short Int. FF Nijmegen 2016 | 28th Filmfest Dresden 2016 | 13th Court Metrange 2016 | 63rd Pula Film Festival 2016 | Newport Beach Film Fest 2016 | WINNER of BEST SHORT at the FECISLA Film Fest 2017 | 25th Arizona Int. Film Fest 2016 | 19th Motovun Film Fest 2016 | 57th Thessaloniki Int. FF 2016 | WINNER of BEST ACTRESS (Marija Kohn) at the Mediterranean Short Film Fest of Tangiers 2016 | 26th Int. FF Innsbruck 2017 | WINNER for BEST SHORT FILM at 9th Mediterranean FF Split | YOUNG JURY AWARD at the 18th Mecal Int. Short FF 2016 | Glasgow Short Film Fest 2016 | WINNER of 1st PRIZE at the Bluestocking Film Series 2016 | 21st Vilnius Film Festival 2016 | NOMINATED for BEST INT. SHORT at London Short FF 2017 | 23rd Titanic Film Fest 2016 (Budapest) | WINNER of BEST ACTRESS (Doris Šarić-Kukuljica) and BEST MAKE-UP (Ana Bulajić Črček) at the 3rd Croatian Shorts! | WINNER of BEST SHORT FILM at the 5th Tuzla Film Fest 2016 | 3rd Taratsa Int. Film Festival 2016 | New Filmmakers LA Film Festival 2017