Directed by Danis Tanović • 2024 • Croatia

Danis Tanović, the Oscar-winning director of No Man’s Land (2001), serves up a warmly melodramatic romance set to the lazy rhythms of island life. Anja Matković both writes and stars as Maja, a Zagrebian who travels to an anonymous Croatian island to claim her share of the estate of a local grandee who years ago impregnated and then abandoned her mother. While she waits for her moment, she begins a passionate but problematic affair with a local writer recently returned from the States. With a colourful cast of supporting characters in tow, Tanović captures perfectly the muggy, desultory atmosphere of the insular lifestyle in late season, refreshingly reworking the “vacation fling” storyline for a jaded millennial generation.

MY LATE SUMMER • NAKON LJETA
Directed by Danis Tanović
Written by Anja Matković, Nikola Kuprešanin, Danis Tanović
Cinematography by Miloš Jaćimović
Music by Mirza Tahirović
Starring: Anja Matković, Uliks Fehmiu, Goran Navojec

In Croatian with English subtitles