Recently awarded the Al Jazeera Balkans Award at the Beldocs Pitching Forum, the docu-drama At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking by director Maja Novaković is entering post-production. The film is scheduled for release in the first half of 2024.
Written by Ms. Novaković and Jonathan Hourigan, the film is set on the outskirts of a village in Bosnia-Herzegovina. 70 year-old Emin and his horse work long hours in the surrounding forests, cutting and transporting tree trunks. But this daily activity hides a deep wound: the loss of his brother during a forestry accident in the 1970’s.
The director describes her film as a work about “alienation and coldness…on a man. Loss and his love of the hills and Bosnian horses.” Filming took place in Eastern Bosnia during the winters of 2020 to 2023, a region dear to the director who shot her short film Then Comes the Evening (2019) there. “I feel safest and most comfortable telling seemingly small stories of my environment, because I understand and feel the atmosphere, the spirit of people and places,” she explains.
Sources: Beldocs, Film New Europe, Cineuropa
