Jasna Nanut

After fifteen years of working in TV, Jasna decided to move on and become a filmmaker.

While studying at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, she wrote and directed four shorts which participated in Zagreb Film Festival, Premiers Plans d’Angers, Poitiers Film Festival and many others. She obtained an MA in Film Directing in 2016. She won two Croatian Film Critics Awards for Best Short, first with her graduate film PLAYING THE TIGER, and the other with her first professional short TANYA a year later.

She started developing her first feature film SEVENTH HEAVEN in 2017. In the meantime, she started writing her second script BIRDIE.

Birdie

LIM | Less is More 2019

Young Buga comes to a small European town with high expectations: she can finally begin her independent life. She starts working in a
big pharmaceutical company, doing research on an antidepressants. She hadn’t realized that the job would require brutal killings of lab animals, and that her boss, Johann, would be such a pain in the ass. Buga feels trapped, she becomes depressed and finds solace in fooling around with her colleagues. She starts turning up late for work. Johann is amazed by her lack of respect towards this opportunity the company has given her, so he starts to watch her closely, to teach her discipline. While breathing down her neck, he becomes attracted to her and starts questioning his own seemingly perfect life. Is it possible that he who has it all – a nice house, a respectful career, a loving family – has actually been asleep all these years, and that she, an immature Balkan girl, has finally woken him up? And now that he is awake, what is he supposed to do with his 50th birthday approaching fast?