Chasing a Dream

A story about the reunion of a group of who scattered around the world after 1987, due to various (mostly war-related) circumstances.

After many years, a tsunami strike in Tokyo has reconnected the director and a woman who was his first film’s original score composer. A recently finished song and an invitation to a high-school reunion party in his native city will start a whole sequence of events that will bring back the director to film after many years of self-isolation. Wishing to start from the beginning after 20 years, he decides to find the then 10-year-old actors in his first film, scattered away from their native city by the whirlwind of war. The director embarks on a world tour, and while looking for them, hopes to find at the same time the lost fragments of his own past as well. At a point, destiny decides to mix up their lives and turn the journey to the opposite direction, leading all the characters to their collective catharsis along the way.

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Mladen Mitrović

Author of awarded documentaries and numerous documentary and youth programs for TV Sarajevo. In his latest documentary, ''Chasing a Dream'', after many years Mitrović brings together the cast of his iconic child's film ''Haustorče''.
Original title: U potrazi za snom
Year of production: 2015.
Screening time: 145'
Color: color
Format: DCP
Production: Fabrika snova, Serbia
Co-produced by: Balkan Art Centar, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Factum, Croatia / Croatian minority co-production
Written and directed by: Mladen Mitrović
Producer: Mladen Mitrović
Co-producer: Nenad Puhovski
Associated Producers: Giuseppe D’Agostino, Davor Pušić
Cinematographers: Zoran Petrović, Mladen Mitrović, Udai Shandal
Editor: Davor Bosankić
Music: Jadranka Stojaković (songs), Milan Đurđević (composer)
Sound Recording: Zoran Tarabanović, Boris Pušić
Sound design: Dubravka Premar
Sound mix: Gordan Fučkar, Ivan Zelić

Festivals & Awards:

Sarajevo Film Festival 2015, Documentary competition programme - Audience Award; ZagrebDox 2016 - Factumentaries programme; BelDocs 2016;