SAFE PLACE (2022)
Special Features: U.S. Premiere. 2023 Oscar® Selection, Croatia
[SIGURNO MJESTO]
Winner of three top awards at this year's Locarno International Film Festival, writer-director Juraj Lerotić's potent and highly personal debut feature — in which he also stars — is a strikingly intimate exploration of brotherhood based on the filmmaker's own family experience. When Bruno (Lerotić) finds his younger brother Damir (Goran Marković, THE HIGH SUN) has just attempted suicide, he and their mother (Snježana Sinovičić Šiškov) must navigate the cold bureaucracy of the social service and healthcare systems while trying to understand Damir's potential motivations. Set over the course of one day as Bruno races against time to save his sibling from a repeat attempt, SAFE PLACE employs metafictional flourishes and a dark sense of humor that skewers the inefficiencies and insensitivities of the very systems set up to prevent the distress that is unfolding, while also painting a searing and sobering portrait of a family in crisis. Winner, Best First Feature, Best Emerging Director and Best Actor (Goran Marković), 2022 Locarno International Film Festival. Winner, Best Film and Best Actor (Juraj Lerotić), 2022 Sarajevo Film Festival. DIR/SCR Juraj Lerotić; PROD Miljenka Čogelja. Croatia/Slovenia, 2022, color, 102 min. In Croatian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
No AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 102 Minutes
Opening Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Genre: Drama
