Montenegro/ 2021/12’
DIRECTED BY: Sara Stijović
SCREENPLAY BY: Sara Stijović
EDITED BY: Sara Stijović
SOUND DESIGN: Marija Šumarac
PRODUCED BY: FDU, Cetinje
FESTIVALS & AWARDS : 30. International Festival of Ethnological Film in Belgrade (shortlisted for the award); 41.International Student Film Festival VGIK, Moscow, Rusia (first Montenegrin student film to be selected)
– 6. Winter Apricot – Prilep Film Festival, Prilep; 8. Paradise Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary; Lift Off Filmmaker Sessions – Pinewood studios, Great Britain;
- Peloponnisos International documentary film festival (semi-finalist award), Grčka
The only son of one Montenegrin family has just died in a car accident – they lost the head of the family. A poem with tears is heard – a lament. His elder sister sings it. Apart from representing mourning, a lament is one of the prerequisites for the dead person’s crossing over to the other side. “To beflower marble” is a story of a sister and a brother – about grief, death, and hope and love we put in a new life, because “from gone falcon, chick remains” as his sister says…
Sara Stijović (1997, Podgorica) is a Montenegrin film director. She graduated with BA studies as a valedictorian from FTV directing at the University of Montenegro, where she continued to specialise in Documentary film. Now, she is an Erasmus Mundus scholarship holder studying MA in Film directing at the Kino Eyes – program that takes place amongst universities in Portugal, the UK, Ireland and Estonia. She is the first-ever Montenegrin director selected with a project for the prestigious La Fabrique Cinéma de l’Institut Français workshop as part of the 73rd Cannes Film Festival – representing Europe in 2020.