A girl talks her boyfriend and her sister into traveling to the Lika backwoods. Their father, who abandoned the family years ago, lives there. Having found out that he is ill, this is the daughter’s last chance to have a talk with her father about everything that happened in the past. In the isolated horizons of Lika, the once deeply hidden dark family secrets start being revealed...
Acting
Ivo Gregurević's father is terrifyingly matter-of-fact about monstrous things.
Direction
Matanic wrings maximum unease from Lika's desolate landscape.
Director
Dalibor Matanić
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lika's harsh karst landscape has historically symbolized isolation in Croatian cinema; Matanić weaponizes it as a character that traps and judges.
The 70-minute runtime was reportedly a deliberate constraint — Matanić wanted the suffocation to feel breathless, merciless, like a bad dream you can't wake from before the worst part.
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