BLOOM
Tamara Broćić
Serbia
With her interest piqued by the exciting events in teenager Anica’s life, eight-year-old Sara decides to investigate further, in order to find out whether her boyfriend truly is a vampire.
SYNOPSIS
In the summer of 2004, eight-year-old Sara leaves the city for her grandma’s village where a local friend, Vesna, introduces her to the secrets of life. She shares the fragments of information which she has gathered and learnt from her older, teenage sister, Anica. At night, the two young girls secretly follow Anica, as she meets up with a mysterious guy from another village. Drawn by the hypnotising aura of their secret meetings and influenced by her grandma’s stories, Sara starts to suspect Anica’s boyfriend might be a vampire.
INTENTION
Although I technically grew up in the city, I spent a significant part of my childhood in a village in Western Serbia. I associate summers with some of the most important moments during that period. Experiences of initiation, it all happened there — discovering my identity in relation to others outside the context of the immediate family, examining my role in society, as well as the dedicated research which went into my obsessions, leisure that gave birth to creativity and play in which we indulged methodically and studiously as if it was our life calling. Part of my need to create Bloom arose from those sublimated experiences, as well as from my love for our human need to explain the world to ourselves, living inseparably from myths that belong to our culture. In this story, the myths are amplified by children’s imagination. I also wanted to explore how an early understanding of sexuality occurs — as something that is primarily a part of nature before it’s a part of society. Bloom should remind you of the excitement that is felt when various things are still incomprehensible and when things are discovered for the first time.
DIRECTOR
Tamara Broćić
Tamara Broćić is a filmmaker from Belgrade, Serbia, who wrote and directed several short films, screened at international short film festivals. She studied Film and TV Directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade and Architecture, also in Belgrade. She participated in several film workshops and artist residencies, such as Terre di Cinema CineCampus, MultiMadeira, DOK Serbia, Galicnik Script Lab, Filmer Forge and others. Besides ESP, her short film in development Bloom has been selected for Euro Connection 2023 and won several awards.
PRODUCER
Jovana Jovičić
Jovana Jovičić is a producer from Belgrade, Serbia. She studied at the Faculty of Music Arts and graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. She is a producer of the fiction feature The Talentless (which won the Chainsaw Europe Award at Transilvania Pitch Stop 2021 and was presented at several markets, such as Kids Kino Industry, m:brane and Sofia Meetings) and the documentary in development The Eight, which was part of Ex Oriente Film and won the DocsBarcelona Award 2022 and many others. Her produced films won awards at international festivals. She is the founder of the production company Lucha.
Genre
Drama, Coming of Age
Length
23 min
Language
Serbian
Production company
Lucha (Serbia)
Estimated budget
€80.000
Secured funding
Film Center Serbia - €12.000, VoxFeminae Award - €600, TaborPRO Award - €500, Bašta Pitch Award - €450, Media Plus - €15.100, own investment - €10.000
Looking for
Coproducers, Post-Production, Sales, Distribution, Financing