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

Gone swimming, love dad

Izidor Bistrović

Gone swimming, love dad

Early in the new tourist season in the Adriatic, a family of six go to the beach in Savudrija. Seven years ago their father drowned on that beach. This is the children's, now age 15 to 28, and their mother's first time they went to the seaside all together after that tragic event. The filmmaker, the eldest son, records this moment without the presence of a film crew, making it possible to open up intimate conversatins in the family about collective trauma and personaly ways of coping with loss.

Croatia 2025, '17

DIRECTOR: Izidor Bistrović

SCENARIO: Izidor Bistrović

CAMERA: Izidor Bistrović

MONTAGE: Ema Veseljak

PRODUCERS: Leonardo Ivačić, Hrvoje Osvadić

PRODUCTION: Akademija dramske umjetnosti, Petnaesta umjetnost

Izidor Bistrović

Izidor Bistrović

Izidor Bistrović was born in Čakovec in 2003. A third-year BA student of Film and TV Directing in Zagreb. At the Academy he directed several films, including the short documentary Hvala ti majko, screened at several national and regional festivals.

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