Friday, 26 June 2026 at 7 pm
Director: Dalibor Barić
Voices: Ana Vilenica, Nikša Marinović
(Croatia, 2025, animated film, 112')
Roman Novotny, once a respected screenwriter, is now a forgotten author who reluctantly accepts a job at the bizarre Simula Peninsula tourist resort. There, under the direction of the enigmatic Doctor Doppler, an unusual experiment is underway: a simulated “film” resort where guests play pre-written roles, and the screenwriters — 'operators' — create their stories on a daily basis. The focus of the fictional drama is Klara and her fiancé, whose relationship is falling apart, and the enigmatic figure with a porcelain mask, Persona — the only character who is fully aware that they are all inside a film.
Dalibor Barić (1974, Zagreb) is a musician, multimedia artist and film director who builds animations from found objects, footage and collage techniques that are unlike anything we are used to seeing. His feature debut, ‘Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus’ (2020), was screened at the Annecy festival, included on the Oscar longlist for animated film and shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb – because it was too alive for the cinema, and too cinematic for the gallery.