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SYNOPSIS

1993: after the Siege of Dubrovnik. 14-year-old Linda has moved back to Croatia from Switzerland with her father. Her new best friend Eta takes her up to the forbidden forest above the city. The two girls become entangled in an obsessive, sexually charged game of swapping identities that leads to a fatal fall. The following morning Linda comes back alone; slowly she begins to take Eta’s place in her family. Ivo, Eta‘s boyfriend, is drawn in as well. In troubled times dominated by women and the losses they have suffered in the war, Linda threatens to lose her footing, becoming entrapped in another world on the edge, a world in which Eta keeps coming back to confront her with herself.

Andrea Štaka

Andrea Štaka was born in 1972 in Switzerland. She graduated from the MFA film program at the School of Visual Arts in Zurich. Her previous films Hotel Belgrad and Yugodivas have brought her great recognition at film festivals such as Locarno and Sundance. Both films were nominated for Best Film at the Swiss Film Awards and theatrically released. Her first feature film Fraulein won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, the Heart of Sarajevo and the Swiss Film Award for Best Script. In 2007 Andrea Štaka founded Okofilm Productions in Zurich together with director and producer Thomas Imbach. She produced Day is Done and Mary Queen of Scots. Andrea Štaka is a member of the European Film Academy.

Filmography

2014       Cure - Život druge / Cure: The Life of Another

2006       Fräulein, Das / Fraulein

2000       Yugodivas

1998       Hotel Belgrad

Festivals

2014       Locarno, Sarajevo

Critique

All this is told with high precision and delicacy, but with a great calculation as well. Here you can contemplate every glance and peace of fabric, light and ringing of the telephone, some airplane in the sky, and all the invisible and inaudible carries equal weight. Only in a film that leaves out unimportant, life may depend on a single stab of a pin.

Vinzenz Hediger,  Goethe University