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Papagajka, Sarajevo 2019

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Papagajka | Emma Rozanski | 2016

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Crowdfunding Series: Papagajka

A stranger arrives in Sarajevo and barges into Damir's reclusive world. Little by little she takes over his life, even absorbing his dreams, until finally he ceases to exist.

Papagajka is an upcoming psychological thriller by director Emma Rozanski, who is currently leading a crowdfunding campaign for the film through Indiegogo. "A cautionary tale about apathy," the film explores the human transformation that is triggered through psychological conflict and the challenges one faces as the mind strives to survive trials of identity and self-awareness. Rozanski personally shares with A-BitterSweet-Life:

Making my first feature film is a scary and exciting thing to do, especially in Sarajevo where the weight of recent history is so strong and dominates the cultural and creative output of the country. I felt I wanted to make a film that could be anywhere, that explored the "outsider" because that is what I am here. There are many layers to my story so that it can be read as an eerie psychological thriller or as a metaphorical reflection on cultural and social colonialism--and many facets in between. In this way, it is coming from a place that I feel isn't imposing on a history that I haven't personally felt. Instead, it's drawing on my imagination and love of magic realism and the darkness of life to create something very personal yet universal.

I'm looking forward to the challenge of making a feature film here under the guidance of my mentor Béla Tarr. It will be an intense and rewarding process with a strange an interesting film as a result I'm sure.

Support filmmakers and their works by checking out the Indiegogo campaign for Papagajka.

Emma Rozanski is a writer and director from Australia. She is currently pursuing her Masters Degree in Film Directing at Film.factory in Sarajevo under the mentorship of founder and filmmaker Béla Tarr and other Film.factory mentors like Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Carlos Reygadas, and Guy Maddin. Her award-winning short films have screened at over 100 festivals worldwide. An alumni of the Berlinale Talent Campus, the BTC Short Film Station, and the TransAtlantic Talent Laboratory in Reykjavík, Papagajka will be Rozanski's debut feature made in collaboration with Film.factory and her production company KitBat Productions.