Neighbors

Susjedi
Human Rights Competition
Tomislav Žaja
Croatia
2018
74min
Croatian

The director of a mental hospital in the Croatian city of Osijek decided to close his institution and to include its residents into society. As a social worker he could not tolerate the feeling of being a director of a notorious closed institution run like a prison. The film follows several former patients, intimately portraying their everyday dramas and challenges they face as they go out into free and unknown world. At the first meeting, they introduce themselves by the diagnoses rather than names. In the following months, which are compressed in a compact feature film, they transform into personalities with complex life paths as we observe them trying to put back together the pieces of their broken lives.

Projections: 
11.15. Friday 17:15
Toldi - Small Hall
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Q&A
11.17. Sunday 17:15
Kino - Small Hall
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Producer: 
Tomislav Žaja
Editor: 
Davor Švaić
Scriptwriter: 
Tomislav Žaja
Camera: 
Jasenko Rasol
Music: 
Vjeran Šalamon
Production info: 
Gral Film
Distribution info: 
T-Film, Tomislav Žaja, tzaya@gralfilm.com