Post by Suzika on Nov 27, 2012 0:15:52 GMT
The British-Croatian Society is pleased to invite you to
the launch of the book 'Chris Cviic: a memoir by his friends and himself'
and a showing of the film 'Homecoming / Dom zauvijek'
on Tuesday 4 December at the Whirled Cinema, 259-260 Hardess Street, Loughborough Junction, SE24 0HN.
The Whirled Cinema (www.whirledart.co.uk) opened in 2010 and is a comfortable cinema with a bar and lounge. It can be easily reached by public transport. The venue is booked exclusively for the British-Croatian Society from 18:30. The book launch will be at 19:00 (further information about the book is attached) and will be followed at 19:30 by screening of Homecoming (synopsis below), produced by Tina Galovic, a young Croat who has set up the Bold Turtle Productions company in London. The film lasts one hour and afterwards there will be an opportunity to talk to Tina and have a drink at the bar.
Synopsis of Homecoming:
“I dream of giving birth to child who will ask: ‘Mother, what was war?’”
Structured in ten distinguishing yet complementary chapters, documentary film Homecoming takes us on an emotional journey through Croatian destiny in the last 20 years. The documentary introduces a number of characters of various age and background, from various parts of Croatia for whom the war of Croatian independence changed their lives forever.
Narrated with a voice of a young woman who was only a child when the war happened, intercepted with extraordinary personal stories and shocking and disturbing archive footages from early nineties, Homecoming delivers a unique and rounded journey of an unfortunate destiny of Croatian people, from the conception through labour to tragic consequences the Homeland War has brought about.
It charts the conviction of people for whom identity and survival were paramount.
Aside from s., emotional personal stories of unthinkable horror proportions, the film is just the same one of hope and inspiration. It is a film about courage against adversity, faith against despair; reflections and remembrance, and ultimately hope for brighter future.
Through the voices of common people, Homecoming tells a story about the raise of a small, invisible Balkan country with enormous natural and human beauty from the ashes of terror; the country which still bears the scars, both physical and psychological, of the conflict during the War of Independence. It reflects upon a part of history that, although can never be changed, has moulded and influenced a generation in a positive way.
This film documents a remarkable journey through nostalgia to hope for the future and shows Croatia, its once destroyed places and despaired people in the already won fight for the brighter, promising future, and asks how other nations that have been besieged with war might see their way out of the ashes of aggression.
the launch of the book 'Chris Cviic: a memoir by his friends and himself'
and a showing of the film 'Homecoming / Dom zauvijek'
on Tuesday 4 December at the Whirled Cinema, 259-260 Hardess Street, Loughborough Junction, SE24 0HN.
The Whirled Cinema (www.whirledart.co.uk) opened in 2010 and is a comfortable cinema with a bar and lounge. It can be easily reached by public transport. The venue is booked exclusively for the British-Croatian Society from 18:30. The book launch will be at 19:00 (further information about the book is attached) and will be followed at 19:30 by screening of Homecoming (synopsis below), produced by Tina Galovic, a young Croat who has set up the Bold Turtle Productions company in London. The film lasts one hour and afterwards there will be an opportunity to talk to Tina and have a drink at the bar.
Synopsis of Homecoming:
“I dream of giving birth to child who will ask: ‘Mother, what was war?’”
Structured in ten distinguishing yet complementary chapters, documentary film Homecoming takes us on an emotional journey through Croatian destiny in the last 20 years. The documentary introduces a number of characters of various age and background, from various parts of Croatia for whom the war of Croatian independence changed their lives forever.
Narrated with a voice of a young woman who was only a child when the war happened, intercepted with extraordinary personal stories and shocking and disturbing archive footages from early nineties, Homecoming delivers a unique and rounded journey of an unfortunate destiny of Croatian people, from the conception through labour to tragic consequences the Homeland War has brought about.
It charts the conviction of people for whom identity and survival were paramount.
Aside from s., emotional personal stories of unthinkable horror proportions, the film is just the same one of hope and inspiration. It is a film about courage against adversity, faith against despair; reflections and remembrance, and ultimately hope for brighter future.
Through the voices of common people, Homecoming tells a story about the raise of a small, invisible Balkan country with enormous natural and human beauty from the ashes of terror; the country which still bears the scars, both physical and psychological, of the conflict during the War of Independence. It reflects upon a part of history that, although can never be changed, has moulded and influenced a generation in a positive way.
This film documents a remarkable journey through nostalgia to hope for the future and shows Croatia, its once destroyed places and despaired people in the already won fight for the brighter, promising future, and asks how other nations that have been besieged with war might see their way out of the ashes of aggression.