Documentary film, 2023, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, 26 min.
Director: Vesna Marich
Cast: Marija Srhoj, Mensura Burridge
Synopsis:
The film is about Marija Srhoj, an 86-year-old disabled matriarch of the Srhoj family. She is a healer, natural herbalist, spiritual soul, and poet. It is also about the place where she was born and lived, Lovište on the Croatian coast, which itself embodies the history of Marija’s life.
This film goes back into the photo archives and the memories of Marija’s childhood and youth in the 1940s and 1950s, when the inequalities of life between men and women in some parts of Croatia were the norm. It also shows Marija’s interactions with locals who come to her for advice on growing plants or because of a pinched muscle. That’s where Marija’s mischievous side "steals the show," which is also a melancholic ode to her late husband Ivan, the sailor, and their boat, which is no more.
Info:
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
Type: Documentary film
Year: 2023
Duration: 14 min.
Director: Vesna Marich
Writer: Mladen Bilić
Cast: Marija Srhoj, Mensura Burridge
Producer: Vesna Marich