Pismo ćaći

The film A Letter to Dad, awarded the best Croatian film of 2012, can be categorised primarily as a hybrid film, on the borderline between a narrative and a documentary. It focuses on a father-son relationship. The protagonists question communication issues that have been piling up for years. The mainstay of the film is the son's "projection" syndrome - the son cannot shake off the fear that he is a faithful replica of his father and that the father's life is a projection of his son's future. A wish to prove himself superior motivates the son to film a video-letter with an amateur camera and to try to compromise the father by presenting evidence that would prove beyond doubt that he is a much better person than his father. The father is defensive towards his son's video-letter accusations, finding excuses for his actions in his close proximity, neighbours, friends... The father publicly describes their family problem and the comments in his son's video letter to the community in which he lives. (CinEast)