Original Title: Dohvatiti sunce: El Shatt Spanish Title: English Title: Chasing the Sun: El Shatt Year and month of production: 2023 Length: 19 minutes Production country: Croatia Genre: Documentary, Experimental Language: Croatian Subtitles: English Trailer (link): Web: https://havc.hr/eng/croatian-film/croatian-film-catalogue/chasing-the-sun-el-shatt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anabilankov/
The film touches on some historical facts about the largest refugee camp El Shatt in the Sinai desert in Egypt during the WWII, based on materials from Croatian and international archives and intertwined with the visuals of this desert non-place now. An attempt to reconstruct a fragmented memory of unknown history about migration in the Mediterranean as a transtemporal filmic journey.
Ana Bilankov
Ana Bilankov (Berlin/Zagreb) is visual artist and filmmaker working in the media of experimental film, photography and video installation. She studied Art History and German Language and Literature at the Universities of Zagreb and Mainz and completed postgraduate studies „Art in Context“ at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She has shown her work in many exhibitions, won numerous international scholarships and participated in film and video festivals like International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, BIEFF Bucharest , 25 FPS Zagreb, FeKK Ljubljana, Liburnia Film Festival, Croatia, where she has won several awards.
FILMOGRAPHY
Chasing the Sun: El Shatt (2023), Lovemap (2022), Three Women Under the Clouds (2019), New Town Future Film (2015), In War and Revolution (2011), Night Riders (2011), Blue Black Berlin (2009), A Story (2008), Pleasure (2005), Sweet Home (2002).
Selections
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2023 (world premiere)
FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival 2023
Liburnia Film Festival, Croatia, 2023
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF
25 FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb 2023
International Short Film Festival of Cyprus 2023
Split Film Festival 2023
Kassel DocFest 2023
Dubai Film Festival 2024
Buenos Aires International Film Festival 2024
Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts, Egypt, 2024
Glasgow Short Film Festival 2024
Crossing the Screen Film Festival, Eastbourne, UK 2024
Awards
Liburnia Film Festival 2023 - Best Directo (Ana Bilankov), Best Cinematographer (Boris Poljak), Best Sound Design (Yiannis Loukos)
Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts, Egypt, 2024 – JURY PRICE (Short Documentary Competition)
Crossing the Screen Film Festival, Eastbourne, UK 2024 – BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
