Vanda Velagic

Due to socio-political issues in the country, it has become questionable to what extent the decision to leave the home country is forced. The community that is needed to establish better conditions and consequently slow down the trend of emigration due to the same problem remains weakened. These and many other factors lead to devastating statistics and the increasingly present problems of contemporary Croatian society. Žal, allegorically representing the country, tries to find the complex causes of the problem.

During the Second World War, the Resistance Movement in Yugoslavia had its own theatre troupe that toured the villages and performed anti-war plays in Istria. Blending comedy and drama, La Predstava follows a three-member theatre troupe as they spread their anti-war message, while a resistance courier races to catch up with them to warn of an impending enemy offensive.

Through the figures of three women whose abusive relationships fall onto different forms of the spectrum, this docudrama aims to paint a psychologycal portrait of the abusers and their victims and the positions of both parties in Balkan society.