A stranger arrives in Sarajevo and barges into Damir’s reclusive world. Little by little she takes over his life, even absorbing his dreams, until finally he ceases to exist.
The Story in brief
Damir is an insecure car-park attendant living a reclusive life. Tasya, a tourist, has her handbag and passport stolen and shows up, disoriented, on Damir’s doorstep. He takes pity on her and offers her a bed for the night. She becomes ill overnight and is feverish and incomprehensible for a day, waking unable to remember who or where she is. Damir lets her stay while they try to solve this riddle. She spends her days in his flat while he continues his routine. However, instead of trying to find her own life again, she begins to impose herself into his world in an increasingly forceful way.
Damir cannot summon the courage to confront Tasya and she becomes progressively more comfortable and controlling. Damir’s sleep is broken by disturbing dreams as Tasya becomes more embedded in his life. She becomes aggressive and he feels his space invaded. He catches Tasya doing odd things, but begins to doubt his own perception of reality.
One day Damir arrives home from work to find Tasya has moved into his room and moved out all his belongings. He gathers all his strength to assert himself and make her leave, but she manipulates him into accepting the situation. Damir is left feeling helpless and that night becomes delirious with a fever, which may actually be Tasya’s doing. She nurses him but he suspects she has a darker agenda and is deliberately keeping him incapacitated. His dreams escalate and cross into his waking life, and Tasya dreams the same dreams, as if she has also taken over his unconscious.
Can Damir find it in himself to struggle out of this trap and regain control of his life, or will Tasya take him over completely, leaving no trace of Damir in the world.
The Location – Papagajka
Papagajka is an oddity, almost a space oddity, coiled in the middle of Sarajevo like an alien organism colonising a small plot of mother earth whose intentions are inscrutable. You can’t tell if its garish colours and bold collisions of angles and protuberances are a wide-eyed pep talk for a better post-communist future or some darker metastasis. It perfectly echoes Tasya’s part in the story and makes the shutter fingers of all who visit the city itch.
Where will your money go?
This film has been built from the ground up as a project that WILL get made. There is no extra fluff, just a very original script conceived and written in such a way that it can tell an absorbing story without bells and whistles.
All movie-making entails some basic costs and every last penny of your support will be seed that grows and multiplies, covering the costs of camera and extra light rental, food to keep the actors and crew going on long shoot days, costumes, props and location fees/expenses to create the films unique world, along with other things that all add up like hard drives, van hire and fuel, insurance, a smoke machine, admin costs and the like.
We also have to pay Indiegogo a percentage of what we raise so we need to account for this so that it doesn’t take away from the production. If we meet our target the percentage is lower, so more money can go on screen for you to see.
For more information on the project and contribution can be seen on the following link: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/papagajka
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