Private Project

Sick

At the age of 16 Ana was locked up in a psychiatric hospital by her parents who arranged the treatment for curing her homosexuality with the hospital director. After enduring five years of heavy traumas at the hospital, Ana is now free but on the verge of suicide and with almost no trust in people around her. Everyone she ever loved have rejected and abandoned her.

Still, she longs for a girl who would accept her and wouldn’t think of her as insane because of her PTSD condition. She finds all that in Martina, her new love whom she plans the wedding with.

However, Martina’s huge patience and devotion wanes with time as she finds Ana obsessed with her past. Her only reason for living is revenge on everyone who caused her pain and suffering, and not the relationship and life they’re sharing together.

Will Ana manage to overcome the hell she went through and devote herself to the life with Martina? Or will she end up abandoned and alone again?

‘Sick’ is a film about love, betrayal, revenge and forgiveness.

  • Hrvoje Mabic
    Director
    4th monkey
  • Hrvoje Mabic
    Writer
    4th monkey
  • Morana Komljenovic
    Producer
    Gangster of love, 4 th monkey, Bosanoga
  • Ana Dragicevic
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 34 minutes 24 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 24, 2015
  • Production Budget:
    80,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Croatia
  • Country of Filming:
    Croatia
  • Language:
    Croatian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival
    Zagreb, Croatia
    February 24, 2015
    World premiere
  • Warsaw Film Festival
    Warsaw, Poland
    October 15, 2015
    International premire
  • Sao Paulo International Film Festival
    Sao Paulo, Brasil
    October 22, 2015
    South American premiere
  • Mezipatra Queer Film Festival
    Prague, Czech Republic
    November 8, 2015
    Czech Republic premiere
  • Verzio International Human Rights Film Festival
    Budapest, Hungary
    November 11, 2015
    Hungaryan premiere
  • Trieste Film Festival
    Trieste
    January 26, 2016
    Italian premiere
    -
  • Jaipur International Film Festival
    Pink City, India
    January 3, 2016
    Asian premiere
    -
  • One World Human Rights Film Festival
    Prague
    Czech Republic
    March 9, 2016
    Czech Republic
  • Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festiva
    Thessaloniki
    Greece
    March 19, 2016
    Greeece
    -
  • Underhill Film Festival
    Podgorica
    Montenegro
    June 6, 2016
    Monenegro
    -
  • Edinburgh Film Festival
    Edinburgh
    United Kingdom
    June 18, 2016
    United Kingdom
    -
  • Toronto Arthouse Film Festival
    Toronto
    Canada
    September 13, 2016
    North American
    Best documentary film
  • Indie Cork
    Cork
    Ireland
    October 12, 2016
    Ireland
  • Side by side
    Saint Petersburg
    Russian Federation
    November 20, 2016
    Russian
  • Everybodys perfect
    Geneva
    Switzerland
    October 19, 2016
    Switzerland
  • Gdansk DocFilm festival
    Gdansk
    Poland
    June 25, 2016
    Gdansk
  • Sydney World Film Festival
    Sydney
    Australia
  • Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival
    Hong Kong
    Hong Kong
  • Chéries Chéris
    Paris
    France
    November 17, 2016
    France
  • Merlinka
    Belgrad
    Serbia
    December 9, 2016
    Serbia
  • Balkan Florence Expres
    Florence
    Italy
    February 26, 2017
    Toscan
Distribution Information
  • Morana Komljenovic
    Country: Croatia
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Hrvoje Mabic

Born in 1974 in Croatia. In 1997, graduated philosphy in Zagreb. He is the founder of the production studio Fantastically good institution – Fade in, which deals with socially engaged films and television products. In 2002, he is the co-initiator of the Croatian cult documentary serial „Direct“ in which he is the author and producer. He directed many successful documentary series, many PSA’s and commercials for televisions and 8 short documentary films. Sick is his first feature documentary film.

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Director Statement

I wanted to bring up some universal questions; above all the matter of how free we really are while we carry the heavy burden of an unresolved past with us, and the price we must pay to be rid of this burden.

I wanted to make a film that is close to the main protagonists and provokes compassion, but at the same time dissects the victim’s dark side, her need to revenge, and thus reverses the stereotype of most documentaries, in which the victim is viewed one-dimensionally.

My intention was to use the power of the spontaneous, direct documentary situations, but also of the structure of the feature film that condenses a large number of events and time jumps
into a precise unit with a clear progression and changes characters through time. Furthermore, I wanted to enrich the extremely hermetic film with a poetic superstructure that would make the film pervious and also have an associative, narrative, metaphorical value.