Ana Square

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About film

Lady Ana lives on Zagreb’s main square for already 40 years. Every day she is selling the religious calendars and rosaries in front of the church. Gradually the square has become dependent on her, and she became dependent on it. For already 40 years, without a single day of rest, Ana has been coming in front of the city church to sell the religious calendars and rosaries; in sun, in snow, in rain, on Sundays and holidays. She is receiving a regular pension and she doesn’t belong to the lowest stratum of society, but she has other motives. Only five meters away, Zorka, her immediate competitor, has placed her booth. They apply the business logic of keeping customers in a simple way – by lowering the prices. Although they are in constant conflict, they can’t manage without each other. Dependence on the dynamic world of constant flow of information, gossip and colorful city characters made them firm symbols of one micro universe.  Ana, Zorka and The Square are inseparable trio in a humorous social essay about belonging and friendship.

Director and scriptwriter: Jelena Novaković
Cinematographer:Wolfram Huke
Editor: Hrvoslava Brkušić
Sound designers: Ivan Zelić, Denis Golenja,Filip Sertić
Composers: I-TAL JAM
Additional camera: Bojana Burnać

Producers: Oliver Sertić, Vanja Jambrović
Production: Restart Laboratory

Language: Croatian

Film was produced in the framework of Restart Laboratory – mentorship program for new authors.

Film was developed at School for Documentary Films 2011

  • EMBASSY OF DENMARK, Croatia

program Restart Laboratory is financially supported by Croatian Audiovisual Centre and City of Zagreb

Jelena Novaković was born in 1980 in Zagreb. She graduated from the departments of sociology and information science at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Zagreb and obtained a master’s degree in “European Studies” at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Zagreb. She is an independent filmmaker with 20 years of experience working with regional and international organisations and within a multicultural environment, and since 2010 she has been working for the British Council. In 2009, she attended the Attack – Medika Film Workshop, and in 2011 she finished Restart’s School of documentary film. In 2015, she finished her short documentary ‘Ana Square’, which was shown at 30 national and international festivals and awarded eight awards. “Learning to Walk 2” is her first medium-length film.

Ana Square

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