Tatjana Božić
Director of numerous awarded documentary films, educated in Moscow and London, one of the founders of Fade In Production Company.
Happily Ever After
A merciless and humorous portrait of contemporary loving.
When filmmaker Tatjana Božić has for the umpteenth time found the love of her life and again things threaten to go terribly wrong, she decides that she should turn over a new leaf. This relationship must succeed! Tatjana visits five exes in Moscow, Hamburg, London and Zagreb to find an answer to the question why all her love affairs always end on the rocks. With a good dose of self-mockery, but also with deeply felt passion, she unravels her past relationships and she confronts her (ex-)men and herself with the complexities of contemporary loving. The documentary is a confrontational, emotional, but at the same time humorous film, easily recognizable to everyone of us, in which the filmmaker staunchly keeps searching for the holy grail of love: the Happily Ever After!
| Original title: | Ljubavna odiseja |
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| Year of production: | 2014. |
| Screening time: | 83' |
| Format: | HD |
| Production: | Witfilm (Netherlands) in co-production with IKON (Netherlands), Factum (Croatia), Zelovic Productions (Netherlands) / Croatian Minority Co-production |
| Directed by: | Tatjana Božić |
| Written by: | Tatjana Božić, Alexander Goekjian |
| Producers: | Boudewijn Koole, Iris Lammertsma |
| Co-producers: | Nenad Puhovski, Lidija Zelović |
| Director of Photography: | Ton Peters NSC |
| Editor: | Boudewijn Koole |
| Composer: | Alex Simu |
| Sound Design: | Jeroen Goeijers |
| Sound: | Dennis Kersten |
| Additional Editing: | Gys Zevenbergen, Jos Driessen, Alexander Goekjian, Vjeran Pavlinić, Tatjana Božić |
| Additional Camera: | Alexander Goekjian, Sanne van Rossum |
| Financed by: | Dutch Film Fund, CoBO Fund, Mediafonds (Media Fund), HAVC |
| Distribution: | Cinéart |
Festivals & Awards:
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014 - Hivos Tiger Award Competition; ZagrebDox 2014 - Factumentaries; Sarajevo Film Festival 2014 - Competition Programme Documentary Film - Special Mention: Liburnia Film Festival - Competition Programme - Best Direction, Best Editing; Netherlands Film Festival 2014 - The Golden Calf for best editing (Boudewijn Koole); LET'S CEE Film Festival (Wienna, 2014) - Special Mention; Dokuart (Bjelovar, 2014); Free Zone Film Festival (Belgrade, Niš and Novi Sad, 2014); Eastern Neighbours Film Festival (Den Haag, 2014); Women and Cinema International Film Festival (Italy, 2014); Florence Film Festival Cinema and Women (2014); International Film Festival of Kerala (India, 2014); Art Doc Fest (Moscow, 2014); Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, BFDKF 2015; Docudays International Human Rights Film Festival (Ukraine, 2015) - Students' Jury Special Mention; UnderhillFest (Podgorica, 2015.) - Jury Special Mention
World premiere of 'Happily Ever After'
International Film Festival Rotterdam, January 26 2014
Croatian premiere of 'Happily Ever After'
ZagrebDox, February 23 2014
Sarajevo Film Festival 2014 - Awards Ceremony
