The author seeks to understand her divorced parents, who live alone on the southern Croatian coast, on the Čiovo peninsula. By capturing their daily lives and the atmosphere of the island, she enters into a dialogue with them, expressing curiosity about both her own and their past traumas. Through these conversations, answers begin to surface—things the author hadn’t had the chance to hear until the filming process. As the island shifts with the seasons, weather, and occasional catastrophes, she gradually opens a raw emotional space—one shaped by shared trauma, loneliness, and confusion.
Paula Skelin
Paula Skelin was born in Split in 1992. She has a bachelor’s degree in Film and Video at the Arts Academy in Split. For more than 9 years, she has been an active member of a Blank film incubator and Cinema club Zagreb where she worked as a film director assistant and, later on, worked on her projects and screenplays as a writer and film director. She’s the author of several short fiction, doxumentary and experimental films. At the moment, she’s in post-production of her animation short debut.
