The drama short, The Lambkin, of director and screenwriter Martina Marasović, produced by the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, was first presented to the audience at the Zagreb Film Festival in the Checkers programme, and had its international premiere at the recently held Go Short – International Short Film Festival in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The film portrays a young girl, Janica, who comes to work at a small-town restaurant run by the Miočić family. Although the family initially takes her in, the inexplicable changes in their behaviour stir up unease and all-around paranoia.

The film stars Tea Ljubešić, Daria Lorenci Flatz, Karla Brbić, Vedran Mlikota and Paško Vukasović, and is produced by Mia Gvozdić Michl. Director of photography was Urh Pirc, while Lucija Strugar edited the film. Luka Gamulin did the sound design, while Iva Stanković created the production design. Borna Maksan composed the music, while costume design was done by Mirna Mihoković.

In addition to The Lambkin, the international competition will also include the feature-length documentary Wind, Talk to Me of director and screenwriter Stefan Đorđević, created in co-production with Croatian company Restart (co-producer is Vanja Jambrović). The film had its world premiere in the Tiger Competition, the main competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

It is a story about Stefan (34) who hits a dog with his car and, overcome with guilt, decides to take the dog with him to the lake where he is heading to finish a film about his recently deceased mother. The film is produced by Non-Aligned Films from Serbia, Spok Film from Slovenia and Restart from Croatia.

The IndieLisboa international competition programme traditionally focuses on promising young directors and films that cross the boundaries of genre, form, territory, but also the human body and gaze, in search of a dialogue about and with the world.