Morning Prayers
A boy and a girl meet at the toilets of a nightclub. Both under influence, they wander the streets of Sarajevo, talking about everything and nothing. They end up in a flat, playing with each other, when the presence of somebody else interrupts their careless endeavors.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece
- 2014, 18 min
- Director: Katarina Stanković, Konstantina Kotzamani
- Director of photography: Giorgos Karvelas
- Editor: Smaro Papaevangelou, Konstantina Kotzamani, Katarina Stanković
- Screenplay: Konstantina Kotzamani, Katarina Stanković, Maša Seničić
- Cast: Ismir Gagula, Hana Pašić, Serafedin Redžepov
- Contacts: Katarina Stanković
- Art Director: Dragan Denda
- Producer: Dragana Jovanović, Luka Venturin, Dóra Nedeczky
- Production: Obala Art Centar
Katarina Stanković, Konstantina Kotzamani
Katarina Stanković got her BFA in audiovisual studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2005. Her short film “Morning Prayers“ premiered in the international competition of the Guanajuato Film Festival in Mexico in 2014. She is currently working on a short film that was created within the Berlinale Talent Campus – Short Film Station and was awarded within the Kino der Kunst project at Munich Film Festival. Katarina Stanković is also working on her first full feature film, supported by Cinéfoundation Résidence, Torino Film Lab Script&Ptitch and Hubert Bals Fund.
Konstantina Kotzamani graduated from film studies school at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. She made many internationally successful short films. Her latest short film “Washingtonia” premiered in the short films section of Berlinale and won many awards, including the EFA award for the Best Short Film of 2015 and was screened within the Future Frames Section at the 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2015. Her latest short film, Limbo (2016), premiered within the Semaine de la Critique section of the Cannes IFF.