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.
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Hrvoje MabicDirector4th monkey
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Hrvoje MabicWriter4th monkey
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Morana KomljenovicProducerGangster of love, 4 th monkey, Bosanoga
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Ana DragicevicKey Cast
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Project Type:Documentary
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Runtime:1 hour 34 minutes 24 seconds
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Completion Date:February 24, 2015
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Production Budget:80,000 USD
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Country of Origin:Croatia
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Country of Filming:Croatia
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Language:Croatian
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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ZagrebDox International Documentary Film FestivalZagreb, Croatia
February 24, 2015
World premiere -
Warsaw Film FestivalWarsaw, Poland
October 15, 2015
International premire -
Sao Paulo International Film FestivalSao Paulo, Brasil
October 22, 2015
South American premiere -
Mezipatra Queer Film FestivalPrague, Czech Republic
November 8, 2015
Czech Republic premiere -
Verzio International Human Rights Film FestivalBudapest, Hungary
November 11, 2015
Hungaryan premiere -
Trieste Film FestivalTrieste
January 26, 2016
Italian premiere
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Jaipur International Film FestivalPink City, India
January 3, 2016
Asian premiere
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One World Human Rights Film FestivalPrague
Czech Republic
March 9, 2016
Czech Republic -
Thessaloniki Documentary Film FestivaThessaloniki
Greece
March 19, 2016
Greeece
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Underhill Film FestivalPodgorica
Montenegro
June 6, 2016
Monenegro
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Edinburgh Film FestivalEdinburgh
United Kingdom
June 18, 2016
United Kingdom
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Toronto Arthouse Film FestivalToronto
Canada
September 13, 2016
North American
Best documentary film -
Indie CorkCork
Ireland
October 12, 2016
Ireland -
Side by sideSaint Petersburg
Russian Federation
November 20, 2016
Russian -
Everybodys perfectGeneva
Switzerland
October 19, 2016
Switzerland -
Gdansk DocFilm festivalGdansk
Poland
June 25, 2016
Gdansk -
Sydney World Film FestivalSydney
Australia -
Hong Kong Arthouse Film FestivalHong Kong
Hong Kong -
Chéries ChérisParis
France
November 17, 2016
France -
MerlinkaBelgrad
Serbia
December 9, 2016
Serbia -
Balkan Florence ExpresFlorence
Italy
February 26, 2017
Toscan
Distribution Information
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Morana KomljenovicCountry: CroatiaRights: All Rights
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.
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.