A Room for Living

A young woman’s connection with the life force of nature. Using her taxidermy talents to “return” the animals to their natural habitat. But the true search for answers begins when she finds a roll of undeveloped film in each of the animals that she treats.

Market shoppers use all of their senses when trying to ascertain whether the groceries are local or imported. The privileging of local produce over imported goods is ever present regardless of whether or not the groceries actually are better, this follows to lines of argument – that by buying Croatian produce they are supporting Croatian agriculture and that domestic produce is familiar and tastier, although it is not the origin of the goods but the method of its production that counts. They rather chose to buy local goods simply because it is "our" , Croatian, local produce, and not some foreign, unfamiliar and alien foodstuff which is therefore deemed of lesser quality.

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Through observing the landscape and models of cohabitation between living and non-living entities, Croatian experimental filmmaker Ana Hušman, examines the ways in which memories are built and narratives formed. And also how they disappear and fragment. A caring cinematic homage to female members of Hušman's family, as well as to Lika, a neglected, sparsely populated region from where they originate.