Lost and found - Nini & Mo

Title: Lost and Found Text by Nini: Lost and Found is a short film about the narrative of human existence, inspired by my personal journey during MEDS 2025 in Rijeka. While exploring the city and later wandering into a forest and ruined buildings, I developed the idea of a girl who appears from nowhere, lost and empty, until a force symbolized by a butterfly leads her toward a door, representing the search for meaning. Instead of waiting endlessly, she breaks through, enters, and transforms into a butterfly herself - revealing that one must save oneself rather than wait to be saved. This reinterpretation of Franz Kafka’s fable replaces passive waiting with active transformation. Together with my companion Mobary, we filmed the piece on a phone in the same forest, and I brought it to life using rotoscoping on Procreate, mixed with editing on Premiere Pro, blending live action with animation to express my own rebirth: I was lost, and in Rijeka, I was found.