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LoveLost

No matter if you kiss me or kill me, just admit that you love me.

synopsis

End of 80s in a small town in Yugoslavia. Ajda (16) discovers the music of Nick Cave, Depeche Mode, Sisters of Mercy, and becomes the youngest member of a gang of four girlfriends who are bound together through many trials and errors on their mission to find true love. Ajda meets Damjan (28) and falls in love for the first time. She finds herself tangled in a maze of enigmatic and seductive glances. Ajda is desperately striving to realize her vision of perfect love, but everything she gets from Damjan are random meetings in the local bar. Her only wish is to be close to Damjan and she starts having sex with him. But even sexual intimacy does not bring her any closer to him. She is trying to express her feelings, but all her attempts end up in a disaster. Ajda becomes more and more obsessed with Damjan. Her friends are trying to open her eyes, but Ajda has decided to find a solution which will comply with her vision of perfect love or be lost forever.

Director’statement

LoveLost is a story about all those crazy, funny, embarrassing, heartbreaking moments when you want to die of love or hide from love, when your heart wants to explode with love or you want to run away from it for ever and ever. For the very first time. I want to explore what happens when we are convinced that we have met “the one”, when he is everything but “the one”. I want to show how we can start losing ourselves, but we think that we are fulfilling our ideal of perfect love. I want to dig into love that becomes trapped in our heads, love that refuses reality and becomes completely immersed in our own fantasies and never-ending speculations. I want to picture a phase in our lives when we are desperately seeking for love, when our body starts to change significantly and when we get the first taste of sex. LoveLost takes us to a world of unspoken words between Ajda and Damjan, and too many words among the four girlfriends, all of them caught up in the mysteries of first love. Many things are left unsaid, but the emptiness is filled with music; the end of the 80s as passion, obsession and lost innocence of one generation long grown up.

TFL PROGRAMME:
ScriptLab 2009
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