Fragments of Belonging (Tragovi pripadanja)

Tatjana Božić

Tatjana is lonely. Born in Croatia, she has lived across Europe before settling in Amsterdam. Fifteen years later, her teenage son avoids bringing friends home, embarrassed by her dreadful Slavic accent and her lack of Dutch composure. But the real trouble is bigger: Tatjana feels foreign everywhere. Determined to belong, she starts knocking on doors across Europe, asking relatives and friends how they did it. Stumbling through cultural misfires and everyday bias, she finally confronts a dark pattern in her own family history.

Croatia, Germany, the Netherlands 2026, '80

DIRECTOR: Tatjana Božić

SCENARIO: Tatjana Božić, Jacob Gesink

CAMERA: Sven Jacobs, Ton Peters

MONTAGE: Sven Jacobs, Tatjana Božić, Vanja Kovačević, Frank Müller

MUSIC: Sterre Hond, Alex Simu

PRODUCERS: Magdalena Petrović

PRODUCTION: LEWA Productions, HBO, Doppelplusultra Film Productions, Spacedust Productions

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World Premiere

Tatjana Božić

Tatjana Božić has been making documentaries for over 25 years, living and filming wherever life took her: Croatia, Russia, England, the Netherlands. In Moscow, during hopeful Perestroika times, she studied at the Higher School for Screenwriters and Directors, learning from Peleshian and Wenders in the same smoky screening room where Tarkovsky once showed forbidden classics. She is trained in life coaching, EMDR, family constellations and drama therapy, which gave her the insights into the human soul she brings to her film. Her feature documentary Happily Ever After (2014) premiered in Tiger competition at IFFR, won a Gouden Kalf and was theatrically released across the Netherlands, France, Croatia and Slovenia. Co-founder of LEWA Productions in Zagreb and Spacedust in Amsterdam, she works as a director, scriptwriter, creative producer, and script and editing doctor.