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A contemporary and urban story about two lesbian girls, in the middle of modern Zagreb. The film tells a story, in a very fun and interesting way, about the subject that in the Balkans is not discussed but only judged. And all this in the atmosphere of socio-economic fall and social uprising. This brought this film the main award of Pula festival in 2002. “Nice Dead Girls” was the Croatian Oscar candidate in 2003. Continue reading
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One of the most terrible ills of our time, people trafficking, follows the so-called Balkans Route for smuggling people into the West. Bosnian and Croatian papers often carry stories about groups of illegal immigrants discovered by the police, and just as frequent are the news of such imimigrants’ deaths. The Melon Route is inspired by the true story of twelve illegal immigrants who drowned in the river Sava on the border of Bosnia and Croatia. This event has been enlarged in the script, and seen through the eyes of a young Chinese girl, who loses her father in the accident. She enters into a tenuous relationship with an ex-Croatian Army soldier, a cured drug addict suffering from PTSD, who lost everything in the war. The linguistic and cultural barriers between the two protagonists give an added dimension to the film, shot through by the painful realization that it is hard to carry an inescapable burden: one’s place of birth. Continue reading
