Ljiljana Šišmanović : 2014
Passage for Stella
Stella lives in Zagreb. She is thirteen, she does not speak, does not walk and does not see almost anything. She can only move if assisted or in a wheelchair. Stella was born with a 100-percent disability: she has a complex cerebral paralysis, hypoplasia of corpus calosum, spinal tumor and a hard form of mental retardation. In order to make carrying of Stella from the street to their apartment less difficult (the route includes 35 steps, plus once again that many for carrying the wheelchair), her parents requested their neighbours to allow them passage through their backyard in order to avoid the staircase. However, the neighbours would not hear of it. A film about a girl whose microcosm is confined not only by disease and disability, but also by the cold-heartedness of her neighbours, of whom she asks not pity but merely some human decency. Award-winning director Ljiljana Šišmanović's documentary premiered in competition at Liburnia Film Festival 2014.
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