Synopsis
A young woman returns home from abroad a few years later to face the trauma of sexual harassment from her past. The silent witnesses of his trauma still live with old lies. Are they brave enough for the truth?
Director
Ivana Todorović
Ivana Todorović is a director of short, socially-engaging films in Belgrade and New York City. Her fiction film "When I'm at Home" (2019, Belgrade) won the Best Woman Film Award at the Independent Shorts Awards Festival in Los Angeles, Best Student Film Award at the Short to the Point Festival in Bucharest, and Honorary Mention at the South Eastern European Film Festival in Los Angeles. The film screened at the Brooklyn Film Festival and at the exhibition "The Principle of Migration" at The New York Foundation for the Arts Gallery in New York City. The documentaries "When I Was a Boy, I Was a Girl", "A Harlem Mother", "Rapresent", and "Everyday Life of Roma Children in Block 71" were screened at more than 150 international film festivals -- such as the 63rd Berlin Film Festival-Berlinale Shorts competition program, Traverse City, IFF Rotterdam, Palm Springs International Shorts. They have won over 20 awards such as Best Balkan Documentary Film at Dokufest in Prizren, Best National Documentary at the March Festival in Belgrade, Best Short Film at the South Eastern European Film Festival in Los Angeles. They were screened at the Anthology Film Archive, the Center de Cultura Contemporiana de Barcelona and the "A Harlem Mother" film is part of The New York Times online library. Ivana is currently finishing a new documentary film "Asylum", and is working on a new fiction film.