Aleksandar Stasenko

With limited means to feed their families, the women of wartime Dalmatia turn to what they do have: the sea. After extracting salt by boiling sea water, they travel with their product, far inland over inhospitable terrain, to barter for food.

Members of the Rodić family dedicate seven years to constructing a stone road leading to a mountain hamlet where their elders lived.

Passing away, an old lighthouse keeper recollects the key events of her life, with the past and the present converging at her deathbed.

After their village was flooded because of the dam construction, some of its inhabitants refused to leave. They are spending their final days by the reservoir.

The most acclaimed film of his amateur phase, Pogled u sumrak, is Stasenko’s poignant portrayal of his father’s final days, revealing him to be a fully formed auteur even before entering professional cinema.

A particular method applied in Yugoslavia in group therapy for alcoholics served as basis for this film.