THE ECLIPSE

FORMØRKELSEN

By Nataša URBAN

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Female director - Completed 2022

With the solar eclipse in 1999 as her mirror image, director turns her analogue film camera on her family in ex-Yugoslavia mapping how a dark past remains embedded in the present.

Festivals
& Awards

Seminci - Valladolid IFF 2022
Tiempo de historia
CPH:DOX 2022
Dox:Award - Best film Award
Dokufest Prizren 2022
Special Mention International Competition
MakeDox 2022
Onion Award for Best Film
Sarajevo FF 2022
Dealing with the Past
Jerusalem FF 2022
International Competition
doclisboa 2022
Doc Alliance section
Jihlava IDFF 2022
Doc Alliance section
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Female director, Documentary
    • Countries
    • NORWAY
    • Languages
    • SERBIAN, ROMANIAN
    • Duration
    • 110 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Nataša URBAN
    • Writer(s)
    • Nataša URBAN
    • Producer(s)
    • Ingvil GISKE (Medieoperatørene as)
    • Synopsis
    • The film’s central motif is the total solar eclipse of August 11, 1999. While the world celebrated, most of Serbia’s population barricaded themselves in their homes and nuclear bunkers, in fear of the lunar shadow. Using this event as a metaphor for nation’s unclean conscience about the consequences of its political choices, in this essay documentary director confronts her country’s wartime and criminal past, and the evil that is still on the loose today.