Manja Ristić – Il Presidente
Wednesday, 16 September⋅10:40 – 11:00am
At 10:40am Manja Ristić tells the story of growing up in a sports family, with her famous water polo dad and Croatian freestyle swimming champion mom in ‘Il Presidente’.
In the overlapping narrative between two places – Belgrade and the small town of Korčula in the Southern Adriatic – the story tackles the golden times of Yugoslavian water polo, the community-built island’s club KPK, where her parents first met, and the only small-town club that won a major European championship, producing some of the most important players in the history of Yugoslavian water polo. It is the story of her father, the family, post-WWII Yugoslavia, her early childhood, the culture, and the society that vanished savagely with the outbreak of the ex-Yugoslav conflicts in the 1990s.
Script, composition, recording and editing by Manja Ristić for SEMI SILENT in the frame of SONIC SPORTS
Voices: Manja Ristić, Luka Bilbija, Mark Vernon
Mastering by Studio La Plant