Safe Place

Directed by Juraj Lerotić

A traumatic event creates a rift in the family’s everyday life. Their lives fundamentally change, as if they are waging a war invisible to everyone else. The source of the story is autobiographical, it is addressed in the film and highlighted by the fact that the author/director plays himself.

  • Snježana Sinovčić Šiškov (Mother), Goran Marković (Damir), Juraj Lerotić (Bruno)

  • Croatian / 2022 / 103’

    Sígurno mjesto

  • FICTION - Drama

  • Director Juraj Lerotić
    Screenwriter Juraj Lerotić
    Producer Miljenka Čogelja
    Co-producers Nevenka Sablić, Saša Ban
    Cinematography Marko Brdar Z.F.S.
    Editor Marko Ferković
    Set Design Jana Plećaš
    Costume Design Katarina Pilić
    Make-up & Hair Artist Matea Katunar
    Sound Recordist Hrvoje Radnić
    Supervising Sound Editor Julij Zornik
    Principal Cast Snježana Sinovčić Šiškov (Mother), Goran Marković (Damir), Juraj Lerotić (Bruno)
    Year 2022
    Category Feature
    Country Croatia
    Language Croatian
    Run time 103 min
    Original Title Sígurno mjesto
    Companies Pipser, Zelena zraka

  • DCP I 24fps I 16:9 I Color I 5.1

  • Locarno Film Festival 2022 - Concorso Cineasti del presente
    Best Emerging Director Award
    First Feature Award
    Best Actor Concorso Cineasti del presente

    Sarajevo Film Festival 2022
    Best Feature Film
    Best Actor
    CICAE Award of the International Confederation of Arthouse Cinemas
    Cineuropa Award

    FilmFestival Cottbus 2022
    Best Feature Film

    LIFFe 2022
    Kingfisher Award (Main prize)

    Zagreb Film Festival 2022
    Special Mention

  • “SAFE PLACE, a film already not given to taking it easy on viewers’ emotions, the meek, honest delivery of a single word — “Sorry” — shatters the heart irreparably into a million small shards. (…) Fresh from winning 3 awards at Locarno, including the best first feature prize, the film now appears in the main competition at Sarajevo, with a long trail of further festival bookings surely ahead. Interest from discerning distributors, too, should raise the profile of “Safe Place” far above what is standard for Croatian cinema.” VARIETY

    “Raw, authentic emotion and inventive lyricism combine in Juraj Lerotic’s sensitive, devastating reckoning with an acute mental health crisis in the family.” THE FILM VERDICT

    ”Croatian filmmaker Juraj Lerotic makes a promising feature debut with this prize-winning exploration of brotherhood. (…) he consistently finds strong angles and compositions which render Safe Place a compelling visual experience” SCREEN

    “SAFE PLACE is a tense psychological drama that treats its serious topic from a sincere point of view.” CINEUROPA

    "With amazing performances, strong dialogue, cinematography and directing. These are debut or second films that will find a home beyond the festival circuit” LIFFe Jury

    "For the courage of a filmmaker not only to reveal himself as an author, but also to reveal his soul, in this film about unconditional love for those close to him.” Cottbus Jury

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