International Documentary Film Festival
March 30 - April 6, 2025
Kaptol Boutique Cinema, Zagreb

At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking

Maja Novaković

At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking

In the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Emin, in his twilight years, toils alongside his faithful horse. Through bitter cold and harsh conditions, he seeks solace and warmth in nature’s embrace and finds fleeting comfort in sharing his burdens with his only true confidant. A visually appealing and aesthetically appealing work that, in its meditativeness, has the power to grab the viewer and draw them into a magical world, not only of the landscape that is cinematic in itself, but also in the inner world of the protagonist. This is a film that takes sadness, loneliness and solitude as a motif and presents them as companions whom one can’t do without. A story about man and grief as a universal human experience that can be both isolating and unifying.

Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2024, '84

DIRECTOR: Maja Novaković

SCENARIO: Maja Novaković, Jonathan Hourigan

CAMERA: Maja Novaković

MONTAGE: Maja Novaković, Nebojša Petrović

MUSIC: Luka Barajević

PRODUCERS: Maja Novaković

PRODUCTION: Kinorasad

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

Sheffield DocFest: Grand Jury Award(2024) 
Aesthetica Short FF: Best Documentary Feature  (2024)
Mediterranean Film Festival Široki Brijeg: Special mention (2024)
Dokufest (2024)
Sarajevo FF (2024)
Makedox (2024)
Verzio FF (2024)
SCANORAMA (2024)
Inward Eye FF (2024)
IDA FallDocs (2024)
Iran IDFF (2024)
Trieste FF (2025)
FIPADOC (2025)

Maja Novaković

Maja Novaković

Maja Novaković (1987, Srebrenica) is a Ph.D. candidate studying Sergei Parajanov’s poetics of heritage. Her debut, Then Comes the Evening, premiered at Visions du Reel (2019) and secured an OSCAR® qualification by winning at the Full Frame Documentary Festival. It received over 50 awards, was screened at 130+ festivals: Hot Docs, Sarajevo FF, SFFILM, Camerimage, Jihlava …, and made the Cinema Eye Honors nomination and Doc NYC Short List. She is a Sarajevo Talents and IDFAcademy alumna.

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