Currently tipped to win the Oscar for Best Short Film for his acclaimed The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, Croatian director Nebojša Slijepčević is now planning his first full-length feature.
Looking to adapt the award-winning novel by Kristian Novak, Dark Mother Earth, Slijepčević will have dramatise a complex story set in in a village in Međimurje in the early 1990s, involving local myths, suicides and the chaos of a community transformed. The setting reflects the writer’s own background before becoming a university professor in Germany.
Interwoven narratives and flashbacks should keep the viewer enthralled throughout – much as The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, a true story from the Yugoslav War of 1993, ask all kinds of questions of the audience in its 13 minutes.