BIGGER THAN TRAUMA

COUNTRY: Croatia

YEAR/DURATION: 2022. • 91′

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Synopsis

Three women discover who they are without the trauma they have identified with for more than two decades. Tortured and raped by former school friends and neighbours during the Homeland War, they have kept silent for 25 years. The untreated trauma has ruined their health and relationships. The film follows their intimate three-year journey of healing through an unconventional empowering programme. Ana feels like a lonely duckling that doesn’t belong anywhere, Marija thinks she doesn’t deserve to be free, and Katica finds any change scary. Can they rediscover the gift of life?

Festivals and awards

Beirut International Women Film Festival 2023 – Best Documentary, ZagrebDox 2022 – Special Mention, Zaba – Audience Award, Canadian International Documentary Festival Hot Docs 2022 – Changing Face of Europe, Croatian Film Days 2022 – Ethics and Human Rights Award, Golden Oil Lamp Award, Special Mention (Documentary Competition), Audience Award, Sarajevo Film Festival 2022 – Human Rights Award, Liburnia Film Festival 2022 – Audience Award, Free Zone Film Festival 2022 – Special Mention, Croatian Film Critics Association ― Best Documentary 2022

Trailer

About the director

Vedrana Pribačić (1977) graduated in political science from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb. Even before graduating, she started working as a TV reporter at OTV, and later at other television networks (Nova TV, RTL, CNN). Her first documentary film, The Factory is Ours! (2017) received two awards at Liburnia Film Festival. Her first feature documentary film, Bigger than Trauma, has already won 13 Croatian and international film awards, and is this year’s (and first ever) Croatian candidate for the Goya Awards.

Screening

• • INK – FRIDAY 21.07.2023

    19:00

FREE ENTRANCE

• • VALLI CINEMA – SATURDAY 22.07.2023

    16:00

FREE ENTRANCE