Donkey (DVD)

Croatian drama following the return of a man and his young family to his home village against a backdrop of war. Boro (Nebojsa Glogovac) brings his wife Jasna (Natasa Janjic) and son Luka (Roko Roglic) back to Herzegovina for an extended family gathering. It is clear that tension exists between the three, but this is nothing compared to that amongst the family in Herzegovina. Boro has had next to no interaction with his father Pasko (Tonko Lonza) since the death of his mother, and finds that his brother Petar (Amir Hadzihafizbegovic) is now confined to a wheelchair after a war injury. The unlikely figure of a donkey, bought on impulse, becomes the antidote to the group's passive-aggresse behaviour, providing Boro with the confessional outlet he needs to become a more rounded figure in his approach to his father, his wife and his family as a whole.