SARAJEVO 2025 Documentary Competition
Dalija Dozet • Director of My Dad’s Lessons
"My idea was to explore what is left behind in the hundred hours of footage my father obsessively filmed"
by Ana Stanic
The Croatian director discusses her film, an intimate dialogue across time, as she uses the archive to reflect on memory, loss, and everything left unsaid
We sat down with Croatian director Dalija Dozet at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival to talk about My Dad’s Lessons [+see also:
film review
interview: Dalija Dozet
film profile], a deeply personal documentary essay shaped from hundreds of hours of footage left behind by her late father. The film becomes an intimate dialogue across time, as Dozet uses the archive to reflect on memory, loss, and everything left unsaid. In our conversation, she opened up about the emotional and professional challenges of working with such fragile material, and her deep connection to the short form.