Half a Man
A small village in the outback of Dalmatia, autumn of 1991. While the war is raging nearby, girls Mia and Lorena are having a big day: their father, Mirko, is going to be released from a prison camp where he spent the last three months. The family is finally together again, but will there be happiness ever again?
Genre | Fiction
Director | Kristina Kumrić
Script | Maja Hrgović
Production | Vanja Jambrović & Tibor Keser for Restart (Croatia)
& Hélène Mitjavile for Melocoton Films (France)
Length | 18 minutes
In distribution
- World premiere at Toronto International Film Festival – Short Cuts Competition
(Toronto, sept 2016) - Seminci – Internacional Semana de Cine ( 2016 Vallalolid, Spain) Best Foreign Short Film Award
- CinAlfama Lisbon International Film Festival 2017, Lisboa Portugal – Best screenplay and best short feature 2017
- Transilvania Shorts 2017, Targu Mures, Romania – Best narrative film
- Brooklyn Women’s Film Festival 2017 – Festival winner – Best Performance – Janja Avdagic : Best dramatic short
- Best Shorts Festival – 2016 , Romania
- Free Zone Festival – Belgrade, Serbia 2016
- Mediterranean Short Film Festival – Morroco 2016
- Zagreb Film Festival – Croatia 2016
- Passaggi D’Autore Intrecci Mediterranei 2016, Sant’ Antioco, Italy
- Kinoma 2017, Paris, France
- Vilnius International Film Festival 2017 – Kino Pavasaris, Vilnius,Lithuania
- Let’s CEE Film Festival 2017, Vienna, Austria
- cellu l’art internationales kurzfilmfestival 2017, Jena, Germany
- 22nd Vilnius Film Festival – Kino Pasavaris 2017, Vilnius, Lituania – Short Film Special Mention
- Valetta Film Festival – 2017 Malta
- Festival East End – London 2017
- Kratka Runda, Osijek – 2017 Croatia
- Mediterranean Film Festival Split, 2017 Croatia – Best film in “jeske” official competition program
- Days of Croatian films, 2017 Croatia – Best camera
- 64 Pula Film Festival – 2017 Croatia
- 22nd International Contis Festival – 2017 France
- Palm Springs International Shortfest – 2017 USA
- Olhares do Mediterrâneo Lisboa – 2017 Portugal
- 3rd Santa Cruz Film Festival- 2017 Argentina
- XX Motovun Festival – 2017 Croatia
- Postira Seaside Film Festival – 2017 Croatia
- Dokufest – 2017 Kosovo
- New Renaissance Film Festival London – 2017 UK
- DEA Open Air International Film – 2017
- Festival Sarandë & Gjirokastër – 2017 Albania
- 11th SIGNS Film Festival of Cochi – India
- Divan Film Festival – Romania
- International Short Film Festival of Cyprus – 2017
- Challengers Short Film Festival – 2017
- Nancy International Film Festival – 2018
Film produced with the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC), the Ile-de-France Region and Unifrance distribution supports.
