Zagreb Film Festival

Motel

  • Filip Mojzeš
  • Croatia
  • 2023
  • 30'

*Watch the program online, at croatian.film

 

At one of the busiest highway junctions near Zagreb, a motel called Plitvice employs 40 workers and has no guests. It is a unique decaying microcosm, within which the time seems to have stopped, revealing the fate of many former socialist state companies.

 

Subtitles: EN, HR

Filip Mojzeš

Filip Mojzeš (Zagreb, 1989) earned his BA in film directing from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and his MA from the Sarajevo Film Factory where his mentor was Béla Tarr. His filmography includes White Bone Death (2018, segment of the omnibus Deep Cuts), The Walker (2014), Shooting Range (2014), Ante, We’ll See War Yet… (2014, short documentary), Elephants’ Graveyard (ZFF 2019). In 2019, he won the Croatian Film Directors’ and Producers’ Association’s Jelena Rajković Award for best young director under 30. He is currently working on his feature-length debut First week of August.

Motel

Director
Filip Mojzeš
Screenplay
Filip Mojzeš
DOP
Srđan Kovačević, Luka Matić, Bojan Mrđenović
Editing
Ivor Šonje
Producer
Daria Blažević
Production
Kadromat

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