Family makes you stronger, but it can also tear you apart. This uncompromising documentary delves into the complexities of a romantic relationship between two people from different backgrounds.
Participatory observation about the Croatian-Roma couple Tea and Mirsad, their daughter Frida, and an attempt at a life together, stretched between family pressure and compromises they are both willing to make. Their respective endowments were economically and culturally practically incompatible, so they had to face the unrewarding challenge of balancing their family baggage in the form of previous generations’ legacy on the road between Croatia and Kosovo.
Both screenings include a Q&A with the director Tea Vidović Dalipi.
SNAJKA: DNEVNIK OČEKIVANJA | Tea Vidović Dalipi | 2023 | Croatia, Italy, Kosovo
Oliver Sertic – Restart, Stefano Tealdi – Stefilm, Bujar Kabashi – Möbius
Luka Gamulin
Jelena Maksimovic
Tea Vidovic Dalipi, Dinka Radonic
FESTIVALS & AWARDS (SELECTION)
Dokufest, 2023 – Audience Award, World Premiere | Free Zone Film Festival 2023 – Special mention First Two Steps | Verzio Human Rights Film Festival, 2023 – Doc Future Student and Debut | Sarajevo Film Festival, 2023 – official selection Human Rights Day | Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival, 2023 | DOK.fest MÜNCHEN, 2024 – Program ’Best of Fests’
DIRECTOR’S BIO
Tea Vidović Dalipi (Zagreb, 1986) is a sociologist, researcher of migrations and cultural identities and a debut director. She studied at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb and Erfurt in Germany, graduated from Peace Studies in Zagreb and actively collaborates with the Center for Peace Studies developing programs related to seeking asylum and migration. Vidović Dalipi is an active member of civil society in Croatia, collaborating with numerous individuals, organisations and initiatives focusing on the protection of human rights and community activity. In 2013 she enrolled in Restart’s School of Documentary Film and found herself in the world of documentary film. Her large desire to master the technique which would make it possible for her to share her views on migrations and the world turned into the production of the film Snajka: Diary of Expectations, which was filmed over ten years.