THE STAMP
Director: Lovro Mrđen
Producer:Dalia Alic
Screenplay: Mario Piragić
Cinematographer: Vedran Rapo
Art Director: Robert Šumaković
Editor: Zorana Rajić
Sound: Viktor Drnić
Music: Josip Šuker
CAST: Elie Joseph Njeim as Tamim
Ena-Sanan Hdagha as Sara
Katarina Bistrović Drvaš as Officer
Productions:
Croatia (Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb)
&
Belgium (LUCA School of Arts)
2K,DCP, (and .mp4 16:9) Color, Stereo18min52sec,2029/ Croatia, Belgium
TAGLINE:
The real war begins, when the one ends.
SYNOPSIS
The clock is ticking for a foreigner, an immigrant faced with the coldblooded bureaucracy of a foreign country, as he tries to prove he is related to his younger sister and prevent separation. Nobody hears their voices, lost in translation.
DIRECTOR
Lovro Mrdjen,
Born in 1995 in Zagreb, Croatia where he enrolled Academy of Dramatic Art, Directing Department. Since the beginning of his studies, Lovro was directing awarded short films and music videos. He was also awarded double Rector’s Awards for the project “Opera Agrippina” and international collaboration “Projekt: Pravda”. “Fabijan”, film which he wrote and directed, is his first short narrative professional film premiered at Zagreb Film Festival in 2016. “Fabijan” was screened on 13 film festivals around the world and won four awards. In 2016, he also starts working on TV talks shows as a writer and director. In 2017 Lovro worked in Croatian Youth Theatre as a director for promo films and commercials and has directed his first documentary film “Patrola Uran” which was premiered in 2018 at ZagrebDox.
-“Fabijan”, short film, 2016
- “Patrol Uranus”, short documentary, 2018
-“Stamp”short film,2019
FESTIVALS
-FECEA – Festival Internacional de Cinema Escolar de Alvorada
International Short Film Festival Short Form Lift-off Film Festival
Pop Up Film Festival
Youth Film Festival Sarajevo
Zagreb Film Festival
Dhaka International Film Festival
AWARDS:
- Best Project by Al Jazeera Balkans Pitching Competition
- Special Mention Jury Awardby The Short of The Year (Spain)
- Best Short Film Awardin Spiritual Films Selection at Dhaka International Film Festival (Bangladesh)
- 2nd Best Fiction Awardat 12 Months Film Festival (USA)
- 3rd Best Actress Awardat 12 Months Film Festival (USA)