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Pushback

Original title: Pushback
Participated in: MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2024
Country: Croatia

After initiating legal proceedings against the police on behalf of the victimised migrant family, a lawyer DARIA (37) begins to confront her personal traumas. As a child, during the war in the 1990s, she witnessed the abuse of her father MILAN (70) by the police due to his "wrong ethnicity". On the other hand, she blames her mother KATICA (64) for having an affair with her father's former colleague ZLATKO (67), who was their protector at the time. In fighting against the police, she is helped by a policeman GORAN (37), whom Daria has known since childhood. As a lawyer, Daria tries to win justice for her clients, which as a girl she could not do for her family while facing the same challenges as her mother. Daria needs to accept the frightened little girl inside of her and forgive her mother, who at the time didn’t know any better.

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