Learning to walk 2
Directed by: Jelena Novaković
Written by: Jelena Novaković, Drago Kekanović
Cinematographer: Damian Nenadić
Editing: Marija Kovačina
Sound: Miloš Drndarević, Vladimir Živković
Producer: Oliver Sertić
Production company: Restart
Co-producer: Vinko Breša
Co-producing company: Zagreb film
Festivals: Beldocs 2025, Mediterranean Film Festival Split 2025
The life story and artistic career of Borivoj Dovniković Bordo were shaped by historical shifts in epochal socio-political systems. These shifts, from the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Independent State of Croatia, socialist Yugoslavia, to the Republic of Croatia, are clearly discernible in the work of this world-renowned animator, whom film critics have called the Advocate of the Common Man. Through autobiographical testimonies and reinterpretations of his works, the author’s life is brought into direct connection with his ingeniously lavish artistic achievements, comics, animated films and caricatures, with a special emphasis on the timeless animation etude about his notable piece Learning to Walk. In constant conflict with socio-political precepts and natural laws, Bordo speaks about the freedom of creativity and seeks an answer to the eternal question; is there a systematic environment in which we really and truly walk or do we walk lamely, as his universal hero does.
Jelena Novaković was born in 1980 in Zagreb. She graduated from the departments of sociology and information science at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Zagreb and obtained a master’s degree in “European Studies” at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Zagreb. She has 20 years of experience working with regional and international organisations within a multicultural environment, and since 2010 she has been working for the British Council. In 2009, she attended the Attack – Medika Film Workshop, and in 2011 she finished Restart’s School of Documentary Film. Her short documentary ‘Ana Square’ (2015) was screened at 30 national and international festivals, with eight awards received. ‘Learning to Walk 2’ is her first mid-length film.