1001 Nights
TITLE
1001 Nights
DIRECTOR
Rea Rajčić
COUNTRY
Croatia
YEAR
2023
DURATION
12′
GENRE
Documentary
1001 Nights
1001 Nights tells the story of EMA (85) and MAJA (80), the most loyal viewers and the funniest critics of Turkish soap operas. For the last five years, Ema and Maja have spent every evening together, watching Turkish series in Ema’s apartment in the Mediterranean town Split as a way of coping with loneliness.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Rea Rajčić
Rea Rajčić (1989, Split - Croatia) has a master degree in film production from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb where she now works as a professor. Her independent production company Eclec tica was founded in 2015 to focus on fiction and documentary author-driven projects with a strong audience poten tial, working mostly with first time direc tors. She is the winner of the Young Producer award at the Sofia Inter national Film Festival 2016, and was awarded for best pitching at European Short Pitch 2018, Sofia Meetings 2019, Connecting Cottbus 2020 and CineMart IFFR 2022 with various feature projects. She was part of Emerging Producers and Rotterdam Lab in 2020. 1001 Nights is her first professional film as a director.
- DirectorRea Rajčić
- ScreenplayRea Rajčić
- Cinematography Marinkić Marinko
- Cast
- Editing Folnović Karla
- Producer/s Tina Tišljar, Rea Rajčić
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project Title1001 Nights
- Project TypeDocumentary
- Completion Date 1 January 2023
- Country of originCroatia
- Country of filmingCroatia
- Language
- First-time Filmmaker Yes
- Student ProjectNo
Rea Rajčić
Rea Rajčić (1989, Split - Croatia) has a master degree in film production from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb where she now works as a professor. Her independent production company Eclec tica was founded in 2015 to focus on fiction and documentary author-driven projects with a strong audience poten tial, working mostly with first time direc tors. She is the winner of the Young Producer award at the Sofia Inter national Film Festival 2016, and was awarded for best pitching at European Short Pitch 2018, Sofia Meetings 2019, Connecting Cottbus 2020 and CineMart IFFR 2022 with various feature projects. She was part of Emerging Producers and Rotterdam Lab in 2020. 1001 Nights is her first professional film as a director.
