Midwinter Night's Dream
This is a gentle fable about love, hope and acceptance in a world that has gone mad. It is the Serbian winter of 2004 and a haunted peace has settled on the former Yugoslavia. For Lazar, who was conscripted by force, a belated homecoming is made even more uneasy when he discovers that his mother has died and neighbours have looted the family home. In the house he finds, instead, Bosnian refugees - a mother Jasna and her autistic daughter Jovana. Lazar instantly bonds with 12 year-old Jovana, and allows the two to stay on, forming a tenuous new kind of family. He hopes that Jovana will miraculously recover from her condition as if waking from a dream. Her mother knows better though, and implores Lazar to accept Jovana as she is, treasuring her and assisting with encouraging her incremental development. Beautifully filmed without pretention, it stars Jovana Mitic who has autism.
Reviews
“Directors with the gift and talent to make an audience laugh and cry at the same time can be counted on one hand. Frank Capra was one of these. Vittorio de Sica was another. And so is Goran Paskaljevic. True, he has only made ten feature films, and few audiences around the world have seen all of them. But how memorable some of these are! No less a master director than Andrei Tarkovsky used the opening sequence to Paskaljevic's first feature film, Beach Guard in Winter, as a teaching example for young students at the Moscow Film School.”
Ron Holloway, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety
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About Midwinter Night's Dream
95 minutes35mm
1.85:1
Dolby Digital SRD
In Serbian with English subtitles
Print Source
Bavaria Film International
Claudia Rudolph-Hartmann
claudia.rudolph@bavaria-film.de
Awards
Honorable Mention, Haifa International Film Festival 2004Special Jury Prize, San Sebastian International Film Festival 2004
Festivals
Haifa International Film Festival 2004San Sebastian International Film Festival 2004
Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2004
Toronto International Film Festival 2004
About the Director
Goran Paskaljevic
Goran Paskaljevic was born in Belgrade in 1947. He studied at the Prague school of cinema, and made his first controversial short film Mister Hrstka in 1969. He has made 30 documentaries and 13 feature films, many achieving considerable international acclaim but receiving menacing attacks in his country's official press.
Filmography
Midwinter Night's Dream (2004)How Harry Became a Tree (2001)
Cabaret Balkan (1998)
Someone Else's America (1995)
Tango Argentino (1992)
Vreme cuda (1990)
Guardian Angel (1987)
The Elusive Summer of '68 (1984)
Twilight Time (1982)
Special Treatment (1980)
Sipad (1979)
And the Days are Passing (1979)
The Dog Who Loved Trains (1977)
Beach Guard in Winter (1976)
A Few Words About Love (1970)
Mister Hrstka (1969)