European Genre Forum
Stranger
A young woman haunted by trauma encounters a wounded being from another world.
Viktoria (22), a biology graduate, returns to the island of her childhood to work through the summer and prepare her thesis. Haunted by past trauma, she encounters a wounded being from another world – and sacrifices herself to save it.
Main production country: Croatia
Subjects:
love, grief, alienation
Višna Mamić is an accomplished director, screenwriter, and editor. She completed film programmes at FAMU in Prague (2004/05) and Septima Ars in Madrid (2007–2009), and later specialised by enrolling in the prestigious postgraduate master’s programme for TV writers, Serial Eyes, at the DFFB Film Academy in Berlin (2015/16). Višna has worked on numerous media projects in Croatia and abroad. Her directing and screenwriting credits include the documentary "Fensi but Still Underground" (2005) and the short films "ID" (2005) and "Lucky Strike" (2009). She also wrote the screenplay for the selected short "Guy & the Biscuits" (2008), developed in a workshop with director Sergio Cabrera.