13/03/2025 - The debut feature by Croatian filmmaker Zvonimir Munivrana, about a romance that soon turns into trouble, is set to compete for the Bulgarian festival's Grand Prize

Franka turned twenty and moves out from her parents’ home due to feuds with her domineering father. She goes to the apartment inherited from her grandmother, where she runs into illegal occupant and law student Ante. Instead of throwing him out, Franka lets Ante stay for a few days. What starts as a romance, soon turns to a nightmare that, coupled with a newly struck friendship with a troubled co-worker Stela not only tests Franka’s character, but also helps her to realise what she wants out of life.

This is the synopsis for Hallway to Nowhere [+see also:
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film profile], the debut feature by Croatian filmmaker Zvonimir Munivrana, set to world-premiere in the international competition of the 29th Sofia International Film Festival, which kicks off today, 13 March.

Zvonimir Munivrana studied at the University of Zagreb and moved to Los Angeles, where he studied film and performing arts and appeared in numerous stage productions, as well as feature films. His first feature screenplay was Children of the Fall, which was directed by Goran Rukavina and released in 2013, participating at the Warsaw Film Festival, among other festivals. In 2016, he directed his first short film entitled Million. He is actually developing a new project, Heron Flies North, after having participated in the Sources2 and eQuinoxe Europe workshops and received Croatian Audiovisual Center’s script and project development support.

Hallway to Nowhere stars Tara Thaller, Stipe Jelaska, Romina Tonković, Slaven Knezović and Matija Prskalo. Production has been staged by Bojan Kanjera and Zvonimir Munivrana himself for Croatia's Studio Corvus, and international sales are handled by The Open Reel.

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