Snajka: Diary Of Expectations - English subtitled + Q&A
Intimate ego documentary about Tea and Mirsad, of Croatian and Roma descent respectively. Despite family pressures and cultural differences, they try to build a life together with their little daughter Frida.
Director Tea Vidović Dalipi opens her documentary with a title card in which she defines the traditional Balkan term ‘snajka’, which refers to a daughter-in-law or sister-in-law, a woman who marries into a husband’s house and family, and therefore has to adapt and submit to the rules of the man’s family. In the case of her documentary, she is the ‘snajka’, which she explains via voice-over narration on top of home-video footage of her wedding with Roma husband Mirsad Dalipi.
It took the director – who is also a sociologist and migration researcher – ten years to shoot Snajka: Diary Of Expectations. Her professional background adds significant value to this striking debut documentary, in which she seamlessly intertwines major social themes with stories from her own intercultural marriage.