BODY is a poignant feature documentary by acclaimed director Petra Seliškar, spanning two decades of her close friend Urška’s extraordinary life, battling rare auto-immune diseases. Once a fashion model, now a professional pianist, Urška faces immense challenges, yet never loses her indomitable spirit. The film blends intimate conversations, personal archives and creative visuals to explore the mysteries of the human body and the power of art and friendship to understand its essence.
A tumultuous journey towards healing and self-acceptance.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS
World Premiere: Sarajevo Film Festival 2023
2023 MakeDox (North Macedonian Premiere)
2023 Festival Slovenskega Filma Portorož (Slovenian Premiere)
2023 City of Women, International Festival of Contemporary Arts
2023 Cineast Film Festival (Luxembourg Premiere)
2024 FIPADOC (French Premiere)
2024 É Tudo Verdade / It’s All True (Latin American Premiere)
2024 ZagrebDox
2024 DOK.fest München (German Premiere)
2024 Beldocs (Serbian Premiere)
2024 Docudays International Human Rights Documentary FF (Ukrainian Premiere)
2024 Underhill Fest
Upcoming: IceDocs (July 17-21)
AWARDS
- Vesna Award for Best Documentary Feature at Festival Slovenskega Filma Portorož 2023
PRESS
Reviews: Cineuropa, Modern Times Review, Variety – Acquisition Announcement
Interviews: Business Doc Europe
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“Petra Seliškar, the energetic, innovative and resourceful director of several feature documentaries managed to create a little masterpiece this time.” … “a film about the love for life”
Melita Zajc, Modern Times Review
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“Body is a visually stunning and emotionally breathtaking piece of cinema.”
Marko Stojiljković, Cineuropa
DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY
Petra Seliškar
Petra Seliškar (b. 1978 in Ljubljana) is a director, producer and writer. She has the ability to clearly see importance in hidden details, and through them, the essence in art, culture, nature, and all aspects of life. This is why she has dedicated her time on this planet to life’s little pleasures, and of course, documentary cinema.
Filmography (selection)
Farewell (writer, director), documentary, 2020
My World Is Upside Down (writer, director), documentary, 2016
Mama Europa (writer, director), documentary, 2014
The Grandmothers of the Revolution (director, producer), documentary, 2006
CREDITS
Writer, director Petra Seliškar
Cinematography Brand Ferro
Editing Sashko Potter Micevski, Sandra Bastašić
Composer Vladimir Rakić
Sound design Vladimir Rakić, Vera Galešev
Producer Petra Seliškar
Co-producers Sara Ferro, Tamara Babun
Associate producer Victor Ede
Production Petra Pan Film
Co-production PPFP, Wolfgang & Dolly
PRODUCER’S BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY
Petra Seliškar
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Petra Pan Film is a Slovenian production company founded in 2003 by the film director Petra Seliškar and the cinematographer Brand Ferro. It produces creative documentaries and arthouse fiction films that are strongly committed to individual vision and authorship as well as long term research based topics. In 2010, Seliškar and Ferro established the Festival of Creative Documentary Film MakeDox in Skopje, a favourite of many documentary filmmakers and audiences who enjoy its uncompromising programming and hospitable, informal atmosphere. In 20 years the company received many national and international awards.
Petra Pan Film
Ljubljana, Slovenia
petrapanfilm@gmail.com
https://petrapanfilm.com
CO-PRODUCERS
Sara Ferro
Sara Ferro born in 1994 in Skopje, Macedonia. Graduated at the School of Journalism and Public Relations in Skopje in 2015. Then specialized in Production at the University of Audiovisual Arts EFTA Skopje, and is now finishing her Master’s thesis in Production. Since 2017, she is the manager and junior producer of PPFP Film Production in Skopje which produces and co-produces mainly creative documentary films. In the past nine years, she has been working on different segments in the Association MakeDox, such as grants management, coordinating workshops, social media, web & app, DocuSprouts film school, volunteers, etc. Since 2019 she is the Head of Industry (MakeCoProDox Forum) of the festival & educational projects of the association. Loves onions.
Tamara Babun
Tamara graduated in Production from the Academy of Dramatic Art and is a 2019 EAVE Producer’s Workshop graduate. She has been working in film since 2006 at different jobs in production and organisation. From 2011 to 2015 she was the producer of the ZagrebDox Pro training programme and from 2012 to 2016 she worked as the executive producer at Factum. She is the co-writer of the Slovenian-Croatian-Italian transmedia project including an online serial and the feature documentary film ilsland, about the island of Biševo. She took part in drafting the bill for the Council of Europe Recommendation for Gender Equality in the AV Sector and was a consultant in the making of RomArchive. She is member of the Croatian Producers and Filmmakers Association. Tamara established Wolfgang&Dolly LLC in 2017.
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY
PPFP is a Macedonian production company established in 2007 and run by Sara Ferro. It is one of the few creative documentary production companies in North Macedonia, focusing mainly on auteur-driven documentary films. It specifically connects various countries to N. Macedonia and Balkan countries in terms of co-production and distribution. With their approach they are succeeding in finding the right ways to reach audiences also outside TV channels and traditional cinemas.
PPFP
North Macedonia
Wolfgang & Dolly is a boutique production company from Zagreb, Croatia. It was founded in 2017 by Tamara Babun with the desire to produce creative audio-visual works that tackle socially relevant topics and safeguard a drop of hope for the audience. The company is developing documentary, fiction and animated content but are not afraid to try producing hybrid experiences either.
Wolfgang & Dolly
Zagreb, Croatia
+385 98 589 071
https://www.wolfgangdolly.com