YOU CARRY ME
2015 Films
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2h 37m
Dora is a neglected girl who dreams about becoming a football manager. Suddenly, her outlaw father reappears in her life, and she develops an unexpectedly close relationship with him. Dora shows an exceptional prowess in order to keep him in her life, regardless of the temptations which both are faced with.
Ives has no respite because her mornings start with care for her father who suffers from Alzheimer’s. Her life is filled with countless and exhausting errands. She is the hard working director of a popular soap who returns home each night to a father who sometimes can’t even recognize her. In her solitary life centered only on her job and the care of her father she loses ground beneath her feet, and consequently finds herself in conflict with other people. Her plans of a better life are getting out of reach.
Nataša is a successful producer of a soap expecting a child with Marin, also a producer with whom she shares nothing but a joint venture. Their intimacy has waned. Sinister forebodings of her physical state are eventually being confirmed. That marks the beginning of her battle to solve problems, in order to peacefully confront her future. Nataša's goal becomes one of confronting her estranged father.
Three daughters battle for acceptance, redemption and new opportunities by living plots more intricate than the soap opera interconnecting them.
Direction: Ivona Juka
Script: Ivona Juka
Production: Anita Juka, Anita Juka
Cinematography: Mario Oljaca
Editing: Vladimir Gojun
Costume Design: Ivana Zozoli Vargovic
Sound: Julij Zornik
Original Score: Teho Teardo
Cast: Lana Baric, Vojislav Brajovic, Helena Beljan, Natasa Dorcic, Goran Hajdukovic, Natasa Janjic, Sebastian Cavazza
Original Title: TI MENE NOSIŠ
Original Language: Croatian
Subtitles: English
Film Production Countries: Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro
Website: www.youcarryme.com
Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/Timenenosi
Statement of the Director/s
I’m attracted to stories in which we travel to private places, homes, kitchens, bedrooms, and witness intimate moments which reflect in our own lives, that we can identify with.
This story explores woman as daughter, and what that role may imply. That's why I decided upon a tryptich, three different stories about daughters of different age, status and families, in order to show more than one intimate relationship and cover a wider range of relations. One daughter starts to build a relationship with her father, other irretrievably loses her established relationship with her father, while the third one confronts her broken relationship to accept her future.
Their stories take place simultaneously, but independently, because they are all intimate and authentic. They brush without knowing how much they have in common. All three carry their fathers, yet they need them to confront themselves.
Daughters in this story are not daddy's little princesses but strong personalities with many flaws, limitations, fears and defeats, daring to deal with their own mistakes and transformations.
These protagonists are antiheroines who have no illusions about themselves, but they never give up on dreams about a better future either.
Biography of the Director/s
Ivona Juka
She is the author of award-winning short films „Garbage“ and „Editing“, which was selected in Official competition of numerous A festivals in the USA. She was selected by European Film Academy as one of 5 European students to make short film for awards ceremony in Berlin, and to participate at the EFA conference «Cinema of Tomorrow» in Warsaw as one of the most perspective young directors in Europe. Her previous short VIEW FROM A WELL was awarded as Best Film at American IFF and Ivona was awarded as Best Director.
Ivona Juka is the scriptwriter and director of full-length creative documentary „Facing the Day“, the most awarded Croatian documentary film. It was awarded as Best documentary at goEast FF in Wiesbaden, DokMa FF, Sarajevo FF and by Croatian Film Critics and won Grand Prix at Croatian Film Days. Film had very successful cinema distribution in Croatia, BiH and FYROM.
YOU CARRY ME is Ivona’s debut feature fiction film. Film had the premiere at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2015. After Karlovy Vary, it was awarded with 6 awards (Pula film festival 4 awards; Montenegro Film Festival – award for the Best Director; Zadar Film Festival – Grand Prix) and invited to many other film festivals as International Film Festival of India – Goa (November 2015.); Fest – Belgrade International Film Festival (February 2016); Muenchen International Film Festival (June 2016) and many others.
Awards Won
Pula Film Festival (4 Awards); Grand Prix at Zadar Avvantura Film Festival, Montenegro Film Festival Herceg Novi - awarded - Best Director. Invited to Goa (International film festival of India) in November 2015 and in February 2016 to FEST - Belgrade IFF.
World Sales:
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E-Mail: [email protected]
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Website: http://www.youcarryme.com/
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