Looking For Her

Tražeći nju

About film

Women from all over the world have arrived in the Netherlands in search of a better life. The filmmaker is one of them. She is deeply convinced that she no longer belongs anywhere, neither to her homeland in Croatia, nor to the country to which she moved. Guided by a desire for a sense of belonging, she enrolls in a Dutch course where she meets Sannimari, a girl from Finland. Through companionship, they both learn to share the same sense of loneliness and loss of identity. On the other hand, both are aware of the well-being of life in a country that is more economically developed than their homeland. In the film, we meet women like Sannimari, women of different backgrounds, races, professions and ages, who share a common place, a place in which they seek their place. Guided by the power of these women and their worldviews, this film becomes a polyphony of their voices: with their different voices they compose a song; song and movie tune. The film tells the story, but it also offers revelations. It reveals the cooperation of women, the collaboration of the director and women, the methodology of filmmaking, but the relationship of man to his environment, landscape, nature and place in the world, which is one of the most relevant questions of the moment.

Director and screenwriter: Sabina Mikelić
Editor: Hrvoslava Brkušić
Cinematographer: Daniel Donato

Producer: Vanja Jambrović (Restart)
Co-producer: Ellen Kocken (Dziga)
Production: Restart (HR)
Co-production: Dziga (NL)
Previous working title: Leopoldina
  • The project was part of Balkan Documentary Center workshop for documentaries in development 2015 (Sofia, Prizren). At BDC workshop “Leopoldina” won award for the best pitch.

Sabina Mikelić was born in 1981 in Rijeka. She graduated on Faculty for Textile Technology, Fashion design. She holds a BA degree in Printmaking, Printmaking departement on Academy of fine Arts in Zagreb as well as MA degree in Animation and New media on same Academy. She finished Restart’s School of Documentary Film. She is exhibiting actively from 2002 in Croatia and international (Museum for Contemporary Arts, ESSL Museum, Project Transform, Sofia…) and her films were shown on Croatian festivals (Night of Croatian Cinema, Days of Croatian Cinema, Etnofilm Festival, Liburnia Film Festival). She won many prizes and scholarships with her multimedia works (sculptures, photography, graphics, multimedia installations) Luka Ritz award/ author of the award, Essl Art Award 2011, VIG special invitation, Award for best Art work of Zagreb University, INA energy, Erste bank scholarship and with her films she won Special Award for Contribution to Ethnographic film, and award for Best regional film, Liburnia film festival. She is currently living in Holland and working on experimental documentary with production company Restart.

Looking For Her

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