OUR CHILDREN

COUNTRY: Croatia

YEAR/DURATION: 2024 • 95′

documentary

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Synopsis

This is Silvestar’s second marriage. He has three children. Jakov, from his first marriage, who is now 38. Eva, from his second marriage, conceived in vitro, now being 22. Ante, adopted from an orphanage when he was 8, now 23. How do the children affect the feelings and opinions, as well as the relationship between husband and wife? How does he affect each child? What is his relationship with a particular child, and does he give them all equal amounts of love? Do children change him? Does each of them do it differently?

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About the director

Silvestar Kolbas (1956.) is a photographer, cinematographer and director. He graduated in Film and TV Camera in 1982 from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. Today he is a full-time professor at the same institution. His debutant cinematographic work on Živorad Tomić’s feature film Diploma for Death won him an award at the Manaki Brothers Film Festival in Bitola in 1989. Early in his professional career he worked as a freelance photographer and cinematographer. Then he started working for Croatian Television on numerous TV programs, reports, and TV films later, he became a top TV cinematographer. Kolbas had photo exhibitions, wrote, and edited papers about cinematography, directed one feature film and numerous short and TV films, series and documentaries for television and in independent productions. He had his directorial debut in 2003, with his acclaimed autobiographical film All About Eva. Lately he has mostly been engaged in feature-length documentaries (Life in Fresh Air, Lucky Child, Lora – Testimonies, Mimara Revisited), mainly for Factum. His medium-length documentary War Reporter, produced by Factum, won him the annual Vladimir Nazor Award for Film 2011.

Screening

• • INK – FRIDAY 12.7.2024.

    19:00

FREE ENTRANCE

• • INK – SATURDAY 13.7.2024.

    14:00

FREE ENTRANCE