International Film Festival

Transcending Borders

Bosnia-Herzegovina - Balkan - Worldwide

A young couple is moving into an apartment to live together. Pressured by responsibilities, they leave the new home for a bicycle ride that brings them to a yard full of things for sale- things from the life one man is leaving behind.

A reminiscence of friendship with the great artist and experimental filmmaker Goran Trbuljak, inspired by his films and his artistic work Monographs. The author's dialogue with Trbuljak's fictitious monographs and their appropriation, questioning the importance and value of the formal recognition that most artists aspire to - their own monograph.

Soon after Mia visits a psychiatrist for anxiety, strange things start to happen. Friends at a party suddenly disappear, the front door won't open and is she being watched? As she begins to question her own reality the locked house becomes the embodiment of her own troubled mind. Mia feeds on the fish that the psychiatrist prescribes and the story turns ever more surreal.

Can one accidental meeting at a street light cause several worlds to collide? Elena, a young HIV positive woman meets Fillip, a young man at an intersection in the city of Skopje. Their strong feelings for each other makes their limited time together longing for more and leads to revealing more about themselves than they normally would, since both believe they will never see one another again.

Surreal journey to self acceptance.