DOCU/SHORT

Blink

Year
2017
Country
Croatia
Duration
19’
Director
Jakov Labrović

Blink starts with an encounter between Jakov and Ivan in Vienna, where Ivan fled from his family house in Kaštela and has been missing for almost 2 months. Upon his arrival back in Croatia, Jakov films his brother Ivan, his life with schizophrenia and his treatments in psychiatric clinics in Split, Rab and Ugljan. Most of the video footage was taken secretly in order to expose the inhumanity and brutality of the treatment to which the residents of these institutions are subjected, and the real impact that medicine has on their mental and physical well-being. The title of the film refers to the director’s ill brother whose eyes do not blink due to the use of invasive medical drugs.

CREW:
Director: Jakov Labrović
Producer: Antonia Kuzmanić
Cinematographer: Jakov Labrović
Editor: Darko Škrobonja
Production and Sales
ROOM 100, Антонія Кузманіч, [email protected]
Director
Jakov Labrović

Jakov Labrović was born in 1983. He has a master’s degree in sculpture, and he is the artistic leader of the performing arts collective ROOM 100, which produces and distributes ‘risky’ contemporary circus performances that combines circus skills with sculpture arts, electronic music, break and butoh dance. He is the artistic director of and performer in the C8H11NO2 performance, which has been awarded the Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe 2010 laureate (with the highest jury score in the project’s history) and performed at various festivals in the USA, France, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Lithuania, Croatia etc. He has also directed and performed a solo piece ‘split’ that was one of the six performance-finalists at the Arte Laguna Prize contemporary art award in Venice in 2013, and a finalist for the Aesthetica contemporary art award in England in 2014. The short documentary Blink is Jakov’s first film.

Selected Filmography

Blink (2017)

Hall «KINOMAN»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Q&A
Original language with English and Ukrainian subtitles
Hall «ANSHLAG»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Q&A
Original language with English and Ukrainian subtitles
22 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
 6 — 13 
June 2025
(re)dress
DOCU/SHORT
(re)dress
Year
2018
Director
Maryna Nikolcheva
Duration
17’
DOCU/SHORT
Biotope / Biotop
DOCU/SHORT
Biotope / Biotop
Year
2018
Country
Germany
Director
Paul Scholten
Duration
11’31’’’
DOCU/SHORT
bye-bye / doei
DOCU/SHORT
bye-bye / doei
Year
2018
Country
Belgium, The Netherlands
Director
Pien van Grinsven
Duration
18’33’’’
DOCU/SHORT
Like Dolls, I'll Rise
DOCU/SHORT
Like Dolls, I'll Rise
Year
2018
Country
France
Director
Nora Philippe
Duration
28’35’’’
DOCU/SHORT
Resonances
DOCU/SHORT
Resonances
Year
2017
Country
Lebanon
Director
Nicolas Khoury
Duration
27’42’’’
DOCU/SHORT
That's The Way It Is / Tak kak je
DOCU/SHORT
That's The Way It Is / Tak kak je
Year
2018
Country
Croatia
Director
Arsen Oremović
Duration
25’53’’’
DOCU/SHORT
Time Is Out of Joint
DOCU/SHORT
Time Is Out of Joint
Year
2018
Country
Canada
Director
Victor Arroyo
Duration
25’
DOCU/SHORT
A Friendship in Tow/Toe / Até a pró/cima!
DOCU/SHORT
A Friendship in Tow/Toe / Até a pró/cima!
Year
2017
Country
Portugal
Director
Atsushi Kuwayama
Duration
10’08’’’
DOCU/SHORT
Above the Styx
DOCU/SHORT
Above the Styx
Year
2019
Country
Ukraine
Duration
29’
DOCU/SHORT
Champion
DOCU/SHORT
Champion
Year
2017
Country
Hungary
Director
Máté Bartha
Duration
19’31’’’
DOCU/SHORT
Hamama & Caluna
DOCU/SHORT
Hamama & Caluna
Year
2018
Country
Switzerland, Germany, Italy
Director
Andreas Anuuk Muggli
Duration
22’39’’’
DOCU/SHORT
In Between / Në Mes
DOCU/SHORT
In Between / Në Mes
Year
2019
Country
Kosovo
Director
Samir Karahoda
Duration
13’40’’’
DOCU/SHORT
The Castle / Zamek
DOCU/SHORT
The Castle / Zamek
Year
2018
Country
Poland
Director
Tadeusz Kabicz
Duration
21'35’’’
DOCU/SHORT