The award-winning project of the short film Bloom by director and screenwriter Tamara Broćić and producer Jovana Jovičić was included, among 12 projects from 13 European countries, for the European Short Pitch 2022/23, which takes place at the end of the current year and the beginning of the next year, with the final presentation on the 9th and February 10th as part of the Traveling Film Festival in Rennes, France. The project originates from the production company “Lucha” from Belgrade, and was supported at the competition by Film Center of Serbia for co-financing the production of domestic short feature films in 2022.
The Bloom project previously won the world sales award “Lights On” at the ShorTS Development & Pitching Training 2022 workshop within the ShorTS International Film Festival in Italy, the award for the best pitch at the TaborPRO 2022 program within the Tabor Film Festival in Croatia, the for the Best BFM-Short Punch within the Balkan Film Market 2022, the award for the best pitch at the Bašta Pitch within the International Film Festival “Bašta Fest” as well as the award for the best pitch at the Pitching Forum within the 15th international film festival Vox Feminae in Zagreb 2021. years.
Bloom is a coming-of-age drama with elements of fantasy, depicting an early realization of sexuality, mediated by mythology. The story takes place in 2004 and follows two girls, eight-year-old Sara and ten-year-old Vesna, who spend the summer in a sparsely populated village, indulged in endless leisure and each other. While the village prepares for the arrival of Midsummer, the girls observe the unusual rituals of the women, absorbing them without deviation. Vesna introduces Sara to the secrets she learns through exciting fragments of her older sister Anica’s life. When, spying on her, they discover that Anica is secretly seeing a mysterious boy from the neighboring village at night, Sarah begins to suspect that he might be a vampire…