NIGDJE, NIOTKUDA

"In his directing approach, Ivica Buljan decided on two Bekims – the one from his childhood was embodied by the young actor Tarik Žižak, and the one from his youth and later by Leon Lučev. (…) The talented Žižak summoned the boy Bekim from a dysfunctional Bosnian family, playful, disobedient, somewhat naive and prone to invention. (…) Leon Lučev interprets Bekim with harsh, primal strength, a bit harsh, and at the same time poetic. “ Kim Cuculić, Novi list "Rijeka has got a new, living monument, a drama that should definitely be seen and that should be desired to travel through Croatia, but also the region." Bojana Radović, Vecernji list "Nowhere, Out of Nowhere" by Bekim Sejranović is one of the most important Croatian novels of the 21st century. Written in an autobiographical key, it is on the trail of autoffunctional works by Karl Ove Knausgård, Édouard Louis, Annie Ernaux, Bernardine Evaristo…"Nowhere, Out of Nowhere" is an emblematic Rijeka novel. Not only is part of the plot located in Rijeka, but the author himself created and belonged to the mythology of the city. He is one of the most important protagonists and creators of the alternative scene, which was the epicenter of artistic events in Rijeka in the late 1980s. The title of the novel is a paraphrase of the cult song of the group Let 3, with which Buljan made many important plays. The story follows key events in Bekim Sejranović's life: from his childhood in Brčko, through his high school days in Rijeka, to his…