Pirika on Film

A biographical video essay on Pirika, a strong-willed woman from Serbia, made 44 years after her appearance in Zelimir Zilnik's documentary Little Pioneers and the Golden Bear-winning feature film Early Works. Growing up on the streets of Novi Sad, flirting with an accidental acting career, struggling through numerous failed relationships, even losing contact with her only daughter, this is the story of Pirika being reconstructed through the regenerative power of cinema. Zilnik assembles his video essay by combining docu-drama with interviews between various characters. During a climactic scene in Kino Arsenal in Berlin where a retrospective screening of Early Works is taking place, Pirika reunites on stage with her onetime director Zilnik and also her estranged daughter.