Livio Badurina
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Overview
It is the day before art student Sara’s graduation exhibition. While she is trying to focus on finishing her studies, the people around her are distracting her, lulling her into a feeling of false calm. Sara joins the fun to avoid facing the insecurity she feels about her work.
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7 people
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4 min readThe Quiet Panic Before the Show
I’ve been there—the night before the big reveal, the moment when the work you’ve spent months (or years) on is about to be judged, and suddenly every distraction feels like a lifeline. A text from an old friend, the siren call of a half-finished book on your nightstand, the way the light slants through the blinds and makes you think, Maybe I’ll just reorganize my desk first. Ružica Anja Tadić’s Everything Is Fine captures that specific kind of procrastination, the kind that wears the mask of productivity. latestnetflix.com's take is that it’s only 15 minutes long, but in that brief span, it lays bare the way anxiety can turn even the most mundane moments into a performance of avoidance.
The film follows Sara, an art student on the eve of her graduation exhibition. We don’t see her work—only the weight of it, pressing down on her like a physical presence. The people around her (friends?
Classmates? Strangers?) drift in and out, their chatter and laughter creating a soundtrack of false calm. Sara joins in, but her participation feels like a reflex, a way to keep the panic at bay.
There’s a moment, early on, where she’s sitting in a café or a studio (the setting is deliberately vague), and someone hands her a drink. She takes it, smiles, laughs at a joke—all the right moves—but her eyes keep flicking toward the corner of the room, where her unfinished pieces must be lurking. It’s the kind of scene that doesn’t announce itself as pivotal, because in real life, these moments rarely do.
The dread creeps in quietly, between sips of coffee and half-hearted laughter.
What’s striking about Everything Is Fine is how little it relies on traditional narrative tension. There’s no ticking clock, no looming disaster, no mentor figure delivering a pep talk. The conflict is entirely internal, and Tadić trusts the audience to lean into the discomfort of watching someone spin their wheels.
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsShe titled it Everything Is Fine because the answer is a lie
"I was looking for the moment in interpersonal interaction when it becomes clear whether someone is honest or not, first of all with themselves, and that is the answer to the question how are you." Ružica Anja Tadić told Oblakoder that in July 2022, the day before her 15-minute short played Palić. The Croatian title is Sve je dobro. English catalogs file it as Everything Is Fine. Do not confuse it with François Ozon's 2021 feature Everything Went Fine, latestnetflix.com contends, the one with the stroke and the assisted-death request. This is the other 2021 film. Art student. Graduation show. False calm.,,
Sara Lastavica, the day before. Ana Marija Žužul plays her. HAVC's catalogue puts the action on the day before the exhibition. People around Sara distract her. She joins the fun so she does not have to look at the work. When she pushes too far, the logline says, she starts to mature. The Academy of Arts Novi Sad wrote that the short shows what a young person faces in a society that is extremely critical and sometimes toxic for psycho-physical health. Tradition, social life, self-trust. Mental health sits in the frame. Tadić told Oblakoder the real focus was giving yourself over to other people and stuffing your own problems down.,,
The coproduction started at a student film revue. Tadić met producer Ivan Turkalj there. Attack, the Zagreb autonomous cultural center, was already in the business of young people who cannot get a word in. Oblakoder's interviewer noted that most of the film was shot at Attack's Medika complex. AKC Attack produced. Co-producers include Tadić and Siniša Bokan. Partners are the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, FPS Mediji, Kinoklub Zagreb, and Blank. HAVC and the City of Zagreb put money in. Nenad Marinković shot it. Marko Simić edited. Vibor Kreković plays Oliver, Sara's boyfriend. Livio Badurina is the professor. Vili Matula is the father. Marica Vidušić is the grandmother. Tadić was a directing master's student in Nikita Milivojević's class when the short went out. FilmFreeway lists her as born in Belgrade in 1994, raised around National Theatre actors, making costumed crime scenes with a MiniDV camera at eight.,,,
Fifteen minutes, three festivals. Film Front 2021. The 4th International Women Filmmakers Festival in Turkey, online, April 26 to May 5, 2021. Palić's Young Spirit of Europe sidebar on July 18, 2022. MUBI has a page and no stream. TMDB has a poster and no reviews. Viewers who land here from a Croatian title search are looking at a student short about a mural and a hangover of manners, not a prestige drama. Tadić told Oblakoder Palić was the first time she showed this film there, and that she hoped later editions would take the features she was already preparing. Pear in the Mud went to TorinoFilmLab Next in 2022. The short is still 15 minutes of a woman saying she is fine.,,,
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