29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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The Forest

Siniša Dragin / Romania, Serbia / 2014 / Czech Premiere / 73 min.


synopsis

At the center of this Romanian-Serbian co-production is the amazing story of an art historian in search of a painting that Romania’s prime minister gave to Josip Broz Tito in 1947. The painting of a forest with fallen leaves had been made by a renowned Romanian artist in the 19th century – and the forest is where Tito spent World War II as a partisan fighter. Romanian-Yugoslav relations under the Soviet bloc followed the same absurd path as the search for a reason for this gift. A playful cinematic study dedicated to a detail in the painting while exploring a great and serious historical subject.

DETAIL:
“Over night, the new friendship with comrade Tito fell. Following his disputes with Stalin, all the communist bloc was forced to proclaim Tito the worst enemy of communism. The newspapers were filled with caricatures...”

biography

Siniša Dragin is a member of Romania’s Serbian minority. He studied economics in Subotica, Serbia, and attended film school in Bucharest, after which he worked as a cameraman for Reuters. He is known primarily as a director of fiction films. Czech viewers may have seen The Pharaoh (2004) in Karlovy Vary or If the Seed Doesn’t Die (2010) at Febiofest.

more about film

director: Siniša Dragin
cast: Dalia Bogdan, Mica Rankovic
producer: Siniša Dragin, Predrag Jakovljevic
script: Siniša Dragin
photography: Eugen Oprina, Siniša Dragin
editing: Siniša Dragin
sound: Ioan Iacoban

contact

Mrakonia Film 
Sinisa Dragin
Ciurea 14, Sector 2
Bucharest / Romania
+40 212 569 297
sdragin@gmail.com

Film at festival

premiere type:Czech Premiere
festival edition:2014
section:Between the Seas
format:Blu-ray
language:Serbian, Romanian
subtitles:English
colour:Colour and B&W

Info

director:Siniša Dragin
original title:Padurea
country:Romania, Serbia
year:2014
running time:73 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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