5th CROATIAN FILM FESTIVAL

The camera that remembers
In the traditional, “animal” ontology of film, the camera documents : it hunts the visible, collects
evidence of the real. Here, the act of seeing is reversed. The c amera no longer imitates the world it
remembers it. Each frame is a fragment of a stored perception, an echo of a world that it once believed
existed. What we see is not an event, but its recollection by the medium itself a technological form of
anamne sis.

From image memory to memory image
If cinema once transformed light into memory, this film performs the reverse operation : memory into
light. The shift is not symbolic, but structural.

Technical memory / Sensory grammar
The film combines analog and digital processes : 16mm grain, 1970s optics, artificial voice, algorithmic
sound. The 16 : 9 aspect ratio is treated as an architectural constraint a membrane through which
perception breathes. Sound moves between monophonic density and spatial diss olution; language
flickers between syntax and noise. The result is a film object that behaves like a machine dreaming of
itself.

1. Entry / Exit
   Dreams are no longer private. They are licensed, designed, and packaged in versions. You are not the
   dreamer. You are the user. Your place is taken by a n avatar your proxy who enters the dream for
   you.
2. Body outside the dream
   You lie still, eyes closed, with electrodes that transmit nothing to you. In the dream, your avatar runs,
   kisses, flies, burns, sinks. You know it. But you don’t feel it.
3. Dream as Object
   The avatar doesn’t “”play”” you. It doesn’t know you’re you. It’s a dream in its purest form
   a construct
   with no memory, no future, no reason. It doesn’t interpret, it doesn’t remember, it doesn’t dream. It just
   happens.
4. The Market
   Dreams are bought by collectors, resellers, architects. You pay for a dream that no one experiences
   like you pay for a mirror you’ll never look into. Dreams are currency; not feelings.
5. Dream On
   In a dream, reality transforms into infinite versions of its
   elf. Characters without a past meet characters
   without a future. Places without geography await visitors without bodies.
6. Dream Off
   The system shuts down. The avatar disappears. The dream collapses. You open your eyes. You have
   nothing to remember. Just a confirmation of the transaction.
   Between Dream On and Dream Off there is a breath
   a transition from image memory to memory
   image, where cinema no longer observes reality, but performs the act of remembering it.

On the recently colonized Crystal Planet, 11-year-old Rea befriends a dinosaur-like cub named Burgy, who was separated from his mother by a mutant monster. As Rea attempts to reunite Burgy with his mother, she faces a dangerous task when they cross paths with the ruthless Governor, who seeks to exploit Burgy’s unique abilities for profit. Rea and Burgy must rely on their bond of friendship and courage to overcome the challenges that stand in their way and protect the fragile balance of life on the Crystal Planet.
—John B.

The story of Dražen Petrović focuses less on famous sports successes and more on the personal side of Dražen’s life and his unique character. The script problematises the relationship between Dražen and basketball, his greatest passion and a kind of personal religion; his one true love and his curse.

This is the story of a drug trafficking ring in Bosnia and Herzegovina that is thrown into chaos by an unexpected turn of events. Explosives brought in by a Syrian immigrant trigger a chain of events that draws ISIS (Islamic State) terrorists across the border into the country. In the tense border region between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, the members of the smuggling ring find themselves caught up in a dangerous, life-or-death game where their loyalty and survival are at stake.

Paulina P. returns to navigate the usual struggles of adolescence-overbearing grown-ups and school tormentors-but faces her toughest challenge yet when she discovers her grandmother is terminally ill.

A renowned Croatian businessman learns on his birthday that he is about to go bankrupt. His family enters his office with a birthday cake and a local ethno band. At the same time his daughter, a student in London, calls him and announces with a congratulatory message that she is pregnant. The child’s father is the son of a Serbian minister.