Zara Zerny

Zara Zerny (1985) graduated from the independent film school, Super16, in 2016 as a director.

During her time at Super16, she has directed three films that all mix documentary and fiction. Her character driven style along with her long tableaux’s that forces the viewer to observe the world, she wants to depict, is a big interest that Zara wants to further develop. Zara also has a bachelor in Graphic Design from Gerrit Rietveld Academy.

Zara’s films have been shown at various of festivals such as Nordic Panorama, Slamdance FF, IndieCork FF (Award – Best Short Film), Moscow IFF, Drama FF (Award – special mention, Best Documentary), Rotterdam FF.

In 2017 she developed her first fiction feature at Jump In / Poitiers Film Festival and her first documentary feature is selected for Twelve for the Future 2018/2019.

Silver Island

LIM | Less is More 2019

SILVER ISLAND is an absurd fairy tale love story between Frank, a lonely old man with a boy’s autistic explorative mind, and Alice, a charming old woman with dementia living in a fantasy world of memories. Frank has lived his whole life on a farm with his controlling mother who is in incurable grief from losing Frank’s twin brother at the age of 10. When the farm burns down Frank is forced to temporarily move in to a nursing home where he is surrounded by the elderly, who have only their memories to think and talk about. One day Alice starts to mistake Frank for her dead husband, Ejnar. At first Frank rejects her, but his curiosity eventually leads him to enter Alice’s mind and he falls not only in love with her, but also with her memories of Ejnar. For the first time he feels the love and beauty of a relationship and he transforms into Ejnar, a persona he always has dreamt of being. But it all comes to an end when Alice no longer sees him as Ejnar, for he has transformed into another person with new memories.