The film is told from the director’s point of view and it focuses on a young Swiss journalist, her cousin, killed near Osijek in the early 1990s. Animated sequences intertwine with real, documentary scenes in which the director sheds light on the circumstances surrounding his death.
The Swiss company Dschoint Ventschr Filmproducktion is producing in coproduction with Croatia’s Nukleus Film. The animation will take place at Nukleus’ premises in Zagreb in the following nine months. Around 30 animators will work on the project, half of them Croatian.
The film’s production costs in Croatia amounts to approximately 1.1 m EUR/8 m HRK, and will benefit from 20% return of justified local expenditure, i.e. around 198,000 EUR/1.5 m HRK.
Chris the Swiss won the Golden Zagreb Award for best project in development at Animafest Zagreb 2013, and also a grant from Eurimages in 2014. HAVC is also supporting. The film is expected to be finished in March 2016 with the premiere scheduled for autumn 2016.
Production Information
Nukleus Film
Medulićeva 6
10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Phone/ Fax: 01 4846 556
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www.nukleus-film.hr
Credits
Director: Anja Kofmel
Scriptwriter: Anja Kofmel
