Krivina is an elegiac consideration of the traumas of war and migration, and what we are to make of such memories. Miro fled the war in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and now lives in Toronto. His search for his childhood friend Dado, who is suspected of war crimes and every now and again appears in his home village like a ghost, brings Miro back to his homeland.
Like Miro, the film seems caught between the present and the past; between Yugoslavia and Canada; between memory, dream and reality. The details of Miro’s journey remain unclear, as does Dado’s fate and the precise role of Drago, to whom Miro tells his woeful story of migration, and of an accident involving a bus full of children – the Yugoslav word ‘krivina’ can roughly be translated as a metaphorical ‘bend in the road’.
A highly personal debut – director Drljac fled Yugoslavia with his parents for Canada as a ten-year-old boy.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 70'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
