A birthday party. A ringing phone. Everything changes in 21 devastating minutes.
Zoe, Goran’s youngest child, is celebrating her tenth birthday. While children, friends, and closest family members are gathering and the party is kicking off, Goran receives a phone call with news that could darken this happy and eagerly awaited celebration.
Acting
Leon Lučev's face holds an entire lifetime of fear.
Direction
Lučev turns a living room into a pressure cooker.
Editing
Party noise cuts like static against Goran's silence.
Director
Leon Lučev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Leon Lučev cast his actual daughter Ela and wife Sonja — the family birthday scenes were shot in their real home, blurring fiction with lived experience.
The film channels the Croatian 'novi film' tradition of domestic devastation, but its 21-minute runtime speaks to a modern attention economy — Lučev proves devastation needs no feature length.
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