Alma, a young girl on the cusp of adulthood, leaves her mother’s home in the Netherlands to meet her estranged Bosnian father. With this fresh, minimalist road movie, Ena Sendijarević won Rotterdam’s Special Jury Prize for exceptional artistic achievement.
Alma grew up with her mother in the Netherlands. Her father, who she barely knows, lives in Bosnia. Eager to visit him, the young girl embarks on a journey to her second (or first?) homeland, if such a concept is relevant in the contemporary world.
The debut feature by Ena Sendijarević won the Special Jury Prize for exceptional artistic achievement at the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam and was later screened as part of the ACID program in Cannes. With poignant and original minimalist shots, dry humor, and absurdist tones that bring to mind early Jim Jarmusch, Sendijarević has created an atmospheric road movie about a teenager constructing her identity in the strange gap between childhood and adulthood, mother and father, and East and West.
Take Me Somewhere Nice
Director: Ena Sendijarević
Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019. 91’ 16+
