DAYS OF MADNESS

DANI LUDILA

By Damian NENADIC

RESTART - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2018

Days of Madness portray an incredible odyssey of two mentally diverse and unjustly rejected people who are learning to accept their difference, faced with the blindness of the society that branded them as hopeless and the health system that made them addicts.

Festivals
& Awards

ZagrebDox 2018
Special Mention
Locarno 2018
Critic's Week competition
Dokufest 2018
Balkan Dox competition
Mediterranean Film Festival Split 2018
Competition
Kino otok 2018
Official program
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • CROATIA, SLOVENIA
    • Languages
    • CROATIAN
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 74 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Damian NENADIC
    • Writer(s)
    • Damian NENADIC
    • Producer(s)
    • Oliver SERTIC (RESTART)
    • Synopsis
    • ‘Days of Madness’ is participatory-observational documentary that leads to the hidden and most obscure world of psychic different that society lightly rejects and transforms them into patients. Mladen and Maja in the mature phase of their life found themselves trapped between demons of the past and the loads of medicines their GP’s persistently offer instead of talking. As in many other stories, the society have reliably responded to the moral dullness of their dysfunctional family history by leaving them to the health system that made them addicts. ‘Days of Madness’, with subtle observation follow their loneliness caught in a vicious circle of rejection and guilt, but also attempts to find their corner in the society that has rejected them. On their way they will have to deal with the ghosts of the past as well as with the rulers of the present who label demonic everything they do not understand. Mladen and Maja told their final NO to their doctors and took care of themselves, finally ready to share their thorny odyssey with others. Through the filigree-caught moments of the two almost lost and forgotten lives, the question arises - who is actually crazy here?