Synopsis

Love, passion, poetry, abuse and everyday survival connected two young people who came from the sea and who will return there. The have spent their whole lives across the bay, across the city they have never stepped foot in, but they became its metaphor. Their lost experience of life transposed into the dim lantern light showing the way in the endless darkness of the open sea to new nameless roamers…

Joško Marušić

Joško Marušić (1952) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Zagreb. He has since been active in various media: cartoon, caricature, illustration, literature, film production and television. Illustration and animation, however, remain central to his work. Twice the art director of Zagreb Film, he was also the program director of the World Festival of Animated Films in Zagreb  from 1992 till 1998, as well as the president of the Festival’s Council from 2000 till 2006. Since 1999, he has served as head of the Department of Animation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he teaches three theoretical subjects, and also acts as tutor. His most important, award-winning films are: Inside and Out (1977), Perpetuo (1978), Fisheye (1980), Skyscraper (1981), Over There (1985), Home Is The Best (1988), Miss Link (1998).