Katarina Zrinka Matijević

A TWO WAY MIRROR

Croatia, 2016, 42′

is the author’s personal quest for inner peace, taking place in the Croatian region of Lika, the remote land of her ancestors. There are many tunnels in Lika, and after each dark tunnel, filled with secrets, fear, darkness – all shown in organic, experimental images – a new season of the year awakens. The images of land, the people observed, a well of sounds heard and the guiding voice-over, complete the experience. While the director films amazingly magnetic and gruesomely cruel scenes of Lika, Lika forms an outline of her own self as she revisits experiences of her ancestors and her own experiences in a search for the key to accept her epilepsy and overcome the loss of four pregnancies and love.

Katarina Zrinka Matijević      

Born in Zagreb in 1973. She obtained her degree in Film and TV Directing from the Academy of Dramatic Art and studied Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy, all at the University of Zagreb. So far she has directed and written fifteen documentary and short fiction films. They were shown on festivals around the world. Zrinka first drew attention to herself with her brilliant student film Duel that won awards at relevant student festivals (Munich and Tel Aviv). The film also won Jelena Rajković Award and Oktavijan Award, Grand Prix of the Days of Croatian Film. Her second documentary (co-directed with Nebojša Slijepčević), On Cows and Men (2000), leaning towards cinema vérité, was shown at the most important documentary film festivals in the world (IDFA in Amsterdam, Munich Documentary Film Festival, Bogota, Austin, Rhodes).

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