TIAFF: Vitić Dances

Have you ever fallen in love with a building? Artist and filmmaker Boris Bakal certainly has. He became a resident of an architectural icon in Zagreb and dreamed of restoring what had by then become a modern ruin.

Over the course of twenty years, he filmed the extraordinary collaborative process — and the accompanying conflicts — between co-owners, tenants and government authorities. The modernist masterpiece became a metaphor for Croatian society as a whole, reflecting its dynamics, controversies and misconceptions. A complex story about purpose, the futility of individual interests, and the self-sacrifice of those who act in service of the common good. Perhaps you will recognise yourself — and fall in love with the architecture of Ivan Vitić. A film with a happy ending, and an unexpected twist.