Director: Mariana Jukica
Producers: Daniel Haingartner, Matthias Halibrand
Cinematography: Matthias Halibrand

After years away, aspiring writer Jackie reunites with her closest friends on a remote island in the Adriatic for a hedonistic weekend and a ritual wedding ceremony inspired by her latest book. But after a long night of excess, one of them disappears, leaving the group stranded on the island with no way out. As fear, isolation and paranoia take hold, Jackie is haunted by disturbing similarities between her novel and the increasingly unsettling events around her. As her friends sink deeper into the island’s strange atmosphere, the boundary between fiction and reality begins to blur, and Jackie must confront a dark truth she buried long ago.

Following Chasing Paper Birds, this is Matthias Halibrand’s second major collaboration with Jukica, the Croatian-born Canadian filmmaker based in Berlin. The project is part of the line-up of the 12th European Genre Forum in Zagreb, Amsterdam and Tallinn. As the development team — writer/director and producers — we are attending masterclasses at all three festivals to explore the particular demands of genre-film development and financing. At the end of the programme in November, we will pitch the project to broadcasters, streaming services and studios at the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn.