When You Die as a Cat Canada
2009, 85min.
Prod./Script/Dir./Sound/Edit.: Zoran Maslic, Dir. of Phot.: Zoran Maslic, Davor Pušić, Milenko Stanišić, Srdjan Bukvić, Compos.: Victor Spiegel, Vasyl Popadiuk, Zoran Maslic.
After the war Bosnia, poet Goran Simiç immigrates to Canada, hoping he could be what he was before. The road is bumpy, not only because of the different language or because of an industry of importing of people... While he is struggling in his new life, the War keeps walking beside him.
| Maslic, Zoran Zoran Maslic
The former citizen of Sarajevo, started as a film critic, writing for Bosnian newspapers and magazines. He abandoned that career for directing short video art pieces, music videos, and children’s programs. Zozonski omotac (1989-1992) was the only TV-show series about alternative culture in former Yugoslavia. It introduced many artists and rock bands, which did not fit into mainstream. When the Bosnian war started he was finishing his feature film script Stoned Age. Very soon, he finds himself directing documentaries about ordinary people in war. Two of them he co-directed with his late friend Miodrag Tarana. How I Spent My Summer Holidays was the best video-film at 1993 Belgrade FF of Documentaries and Shorts, while Peace in the Village of Janja received Silver Knight at Golden Knight FF of Slavic Cultures. After the war, in 1996, he immigrates to Canada where he gets “lost in translation”, living the life similar to the one he shows in a documentary When You Die as a Cat.
Filmography
Rockovnik (1987), Fantastic History of Bosnian Cinema (1988), How I Spent My Summer Holidays (1992), Peace in the Village of Janja (1993), Eurovision (1993), Hometown (1994), Metamorphosis of Upper Apple Village (1995), When You Die as a Cat (2009).
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