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Heart in your Throat

Original title: Srce u pete
Participated in: MIDPOINT Shorts 2024-2025
Country: Serbia

Marina is thirteen and alone. After her grandfather's suicide, she wants to disappear, wishing her imagination could be real.

MARINA is a thirteen year old girl who lives alone with her grandparents. On a hot August morning, her grandmother JAGODA wakes her up and gives Marina a task to look after her depressed grandfather SLOBA. Marina decides to sleep just a few minutes more. When she wakes up she finds her grandpa dead.

 

Marina’s aunt JELENA arrives shortly after with her family. While all of them rush to the house Marina, looks at a  SEXY MAN who walks across the street. Marina can’t look away, her guilt starts to emerge as she can’t think about her grandfather anymore.

 

At night, the family leaves, Marina stays alone with her grandma Jagoda. After avoiding talking to Jagoda, Marina calls her mom SEJA. She tries to express how lonely she feels but her mother doesn’t really want to talk. Marina is alone and misunderstood, but suddenly her window breaks, the Sexy Man jumps into her room and steals her. She is going far away from her lonely home.

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