Genre: Documentary, film-essay
Duration: 24min
Year of Production: 2025
Country of Co-Production: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Screening Format: DCP 2K Flat
Colour: Colour
Language: French; Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
Subtitles: English, French
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1058205159
Synopsis
The hypnotic, purring sound of a motor resonates, accompanied by the rumble from inside the bus. The author’s intimate voice leads us through an inner monologue. We are on our way to Prijedor, his Bosnian hometown, the site of his perpetual departures. Before arriving, we first have to understand departure as a space in which we can grow and be born again.
Long Synopsis
Like many young people who are too talented, ambitious or stubborn to accept living where destiny has brought them into the world, filmmaker and artist Mladen Bundalo has left a familiar place of origin to migrate in search of inspiration and opportunity. His umpteenth journey over the years between Prijedor, Bosnia, where his relatives live, and Brussels, where he has over time built a family of his own, becomes the occasion for a frank self-analysis of his experience of voluntary exile and a broader reflection on the Balkan diaspora. The story of his family can be read as a chain of arrivals and departures, but there is a danger of a divide being drawn and widened between those who have chosen or accepted to stay, to be part of a place and a history, and those who, amidst too many comings and goings, will never be home enough. The camera observes once familiar spaces and objects to which the director's voice and memory cling, but in the map they draw, perhaps only previous and future generations will be able to find their place, not those in between who are now forever on the move.
Sergio Fant - Visions du Réel
Crew
Director: Mladen Bundalo
Screenplay: Mladen Bundalo; Petar Sarjanović
Cinematography: Zoran Pilipović
Sound: Zoran Galić
Editing: Lou Vercelletto, Mladen Bundalo
Music: Ivana Miljković
Sound Editing: Hélène Clerc-Denisot
Mixing: Rémi Gerard
Graphic design: Pierre de Belgique
Producers: Zoran Galić, Pierre-Louis Cassou
Production: Vizart Film, La tangente
Cast
Petar Sarjanović
Radojka Bundalo
Draško Bundalo
Marta Bundalo
Louise Bundalo
Lucie Fournier
Zdravka Bundalo
Festivals and screenings
• Vision du Réel in Nyon, international medium lenght & short film competition / Special Mention of the jury
Film PRESS
• Vision du Réel - announcment (link)
Poster download poster
