Vedrana Pribačić
BIGGER THAN TRAUMA
Croatia, 2022, 91 min
Three women discover who they are without the trauma they have identified with for more than two decades. Tortured and raped by former school friends and neighbours during the Homeland War, they have kept silent for 25 years. The untreated trauma has ruined their health and relationships. The film follows their intimate three-year journey of healing through an unconventional empowering programme. Ana feels like a lonely duckling that doesn’t belong anywhere, Marija thinks she doesn’t deserve to be free, and Katica finds any change scary. Can they rediscover the gift of life?
Vedrana Pribačić (1977) graduated in political science from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb. Even before graduating, she started working as a TV reporter at OTV, and later at other television networks (Nova TV, RTL, CNN). Her first documentary film, The Factory is Ours! (2017) received two awards at Liburnia Film Festival. Her first feature documentary film, Bigger than Trauma, has already won 13 Croatian and international film awards, and is this year’s (and first ever) Croatian candidate for the Goya Awards.
