MOVIES

HOLYDAYS IN THE SUN

Synopsis / MLADEN (44) Belgrade born, is a timeshare salesman at Croatian Holiday resort. He is having an affair with his colleague, SONJA (40), who is married to METOD (50) the chief sales manager who learns about his wife's infidelity. He assigns Mladen the toughest client - Omer, a Bosnian war veteran, who doesn't try to hide his aversion to Mladen. Everything becomes hopeless when Omer's three year old son Svendy falls over the edge of the hotel terrace and ends up in a hospital. Grim mood that prevails among the potential buyers is about to ruin the sales. Sonja and Metod blackmail Mladen to continue the sales at the hospital while Omer and his wife are waiting for their son's operation.

Festivals and Awards / Transilvania International Film Festival / Montenegro Film Festival - Herceg Novi / Filmski susreti, Niš - Best Actor (Srdjan Žika Todorović), Best Supporting Actress (Hristina Popović), Best Foreign Actors in Serbian films (Branko Djurić Djuro, Nataša Janjić)

THE PARADE

Synopsis / A homophobic, middle-aged, Serbian gangster LIMUN ends up sacrificing himself to protect Gay freedom in his country. RADMILO and MIRKO are young and successful gay couple, and they would be a happy couple anywhere else except in - Serbia. They try to live discreetly but still, every day they are abused by the homophobic majority. Mirko is a gay rights activist, and his dream is to organize the first successful PRIDE event in Belgrade. This is almost a "mission impossible"; in 2001, an attempt to hold PRIDE in Belgrade ended up in bloodshed. One decade later, the situation is not much better - nationalist and neo-Nazi organizations prepare another massacre in case of holding the gay parade, while the police refuse to provide protection for the participants. A strange couple arrives in Radmilo's and Mirko's life - LEMON an ex criminal and war veteran, the owner of a small security company and his fiance - PEARL (30) a beauty parlor owner. Radmilo, a successful veterinarian, performs a life-saving operation Lemon's pit-bull terrier, the victim of a drive-by shooting that served as a warning to the dog's master. Mirko runs an agency that organizes sophisticated weddings and now he has the ultimate nightmare clients - Pearl and Lemon. The encounter between these two worlds ends in disaster - yet another humiliation for Radmilo and Mirko. Mirko had enough - not long ago he received Immigrant Visa from Canada and wants to leave the country forever. Radmilo is ready for a desperate measures to keep his partner and their relationship - He offers a deal to Lemon, asking that Lemon's agency provide protection for the Belgrade Pride. In return, Mirko will organize the wedding party for Pearl and Lemon. Lemon reluctantly accepts, but his staff refuses to protect homosexuals. Put in a tight spot, Lemon thinks of his "dear" enemies from the ex-Yu wars. LEMON and RADMILO embark on a recruiting trip all over ex-Yugoslavia. They manage to sign up for their mission: NIKO (45) a Croat war veteran, HALIL (40), a Bosnian Muslim, and AZEM (45), an Albanian from Kosovo. But the handful of "samurai" are yet to face their greatest challenge... THE PARADE, in a tragicomic way, tells the story about ongoing battle between two worlds in contemporary post-war Serbian society - the traditional, oppressive, homophobic majority and a liberal, modern and open-minded minority.

Festivals and Awards / Berlinale 2012 - Panorama Audience Award, Ecumenic jury Award / Special mention, Golden Else Award / Torino GLBT festival - Audience Award / Freiburg film festival - Audience Award / Gallway film festival - Best international film / Pula film festival - Best screenplay / Festroia film festival Setubal - Grand prix, Audience Award / Golden Dolphin, Grand Prix - Festroia - Setubal - Portugal / Medfilm, Rome - Grand Prix / Montpellier film festival - Audience Award / Brussels film festival - Audience Award / Fipresci Serbia – Best film 2011 / Fipresci Serbia – Best actor 2011 (Nikola Kojo) / Cinema city, Novi sad – Audience Award / Screenfest, Vrnjačka Banja – Best screenplay / Filmski susreti, Niš - Best Actress (Hristina Popović)

WE ARE NOT ANGELS 3 - ROCK`N`ROLL STRIKE BACK

Synopsis / Borko Pavić a.k.a. Dorian sold his soul to the Devil in the mid-1970s in order to become a rock star in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and gain wealth and fame. But in today's Serbia, success and fame no longer live in rock`n`roll. MARKO, a former Dorian fan, knows this best, who gave him up when his idol turned into turbo-folk music. As Angel and the Devil are always in action, so is Marko's great desire to get a "Telecaster" guitar, which leads him to sell his soul to the Devil.

WE ARE NOT ANGELS 2

Synopsis / In this sequel of beloved and acclaimed comedy "We Are Not Angels" (Srdjan Dragojević's debut feature fiction film), NIKOLA a former playboy must cope with his teenage daughter's adolescence, as well as numerous boys that keep knocking at her doors. A worried father thinks she might get in type of troubles he used to cause when he was just the age of her wooers.

Festivals and Awards / Herceg Novi Film Festival - Best film, Best screenplay, Best director / Fipresci Serbia - Best director / Filmski susreti, Niš - Best debut actor (Mirka Vasiljević)

ST GEORGE SHOOTS THE DRAGON

Synopsis / Gritty, complex period piece unfurls circa 1914, against the explosive backdrop of the early-World War I Balkans. In a Serbian village on the banks of the Sava River (which constitutes the border of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), the local population falls into two factions with radically different ideologies: the veterans from prior Balkan conflicts, many of whom are invalids given their war casualties, and the new military recruits - young, strapping and full of vigor. When the Great War formally erupts following the Archduke's assassination, the new recruits of the village march off to the front lines, leaving the invalids behind; many of those who remain willfully and irresponsibly take sexual advantage of the soldiers' wives and sisters. News of this reaches the Serbian High Command shortly before the battles commence; in response, he summons the invalids and places them at the front lines, in an attempt to effectively deal with the guilty parties. Meanwhile, an unexpected romance blossoms between an area policeman, his wife, and a Balkan war invalid.

Festivals and Awards / Cinema city, Novi Sad - Best director / Cinema city, Novi Sad - Best Lead Actor (Lazar Ristovski) / Cinema city, Novi Sad - Best editor (Petar Marković) / Montreal World Film Festival - Best Artistic Contribution / Filmski susreti, Niš - Grand Prix for Best Actor (Lazar Ristovski) / Filmski susreti, Niš - Award for Actors excellence (Milutin Milošević) / Filmski susreti, Niš - Award for Best Debut (Milena Predić) / Filmski susreti, Niš - Special Jury Mention (Nataša Janjić) / Fipresci Serbia - Best photography (Dušan Joksimović) / Fipresci Serbia - Best production design (Miljen Kreka Kljaković)

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY (8th MARCH)
Feature fiction film

Synopsis / Vesna Stojčić, 55, is a burned-out Anthropology professor in a post-socialist Balkan country. Once a passionate believer in equality and social progress, she now gives lectures to students who are glued to their phones while her own life collapses — her alcoholic loneliness, her drug-addicted son, and her lost sense of purpose. When she’s unexpectedly invited to a posh International Women’s Day celebration at the American Ambassador’s residence, Vesna clings to it as a lifeline — a chance to prove she still matters. What begins as an opportunity turns into a surreal descent into hypocrisy and humiliation: self-proclaimed “empowered women” (diplomats’ wives, influencers, businesswomen and their powerful husbands) engage in vacuous performances while exploiting everyone around them. Vesna, armed with her accordion and awkward sincerity, becomes the tragic clown of their spectacle. Through flashbacks to her youth under socialism, where Women’s Day was celebrated as workers’ solidarity, Vesna’s fragmented memories collide with the grotesque present — a consumerist parody of empowerment. Intoxicated and heartbroken, she finally refuses to perform for them and walks away, singing into the night. Her voice — cracked but full of life — becomes an act of defiance, a reclaiming of truth, and a hymn to forgotten dignity.

Screenplay, director's statement and visual moodboard
are available for your consideration upon request at
srdjan@deliriumfilms.rs / biljana@deliriumfilms.rs

MILK TEETH
Feature fiction film

Synopsis / Seven stories about the challenges of childhood and growing up. The protagonists of these stories are kids, boys and girls, from ages 6 to 14. We follow our heroes from the moment their first milk teeth fall out to the loss of their last baby tooth, symbolizing entering into the world of adulthood. In the first story, set in 1969, Momir (50) Andrija's (12) and Marko’s (6) father buys the first TV in their village so that everyone can watch the historic moon landing of the Apollo 11 mission. There’s no room in front of the TV for kids. How will Andrija, who possesses the power of telekinesis, stand up to his violent, authoritarian father? The second story, titled “SWIMMING POOL”, takes place in present day, we follow DAMIR, an 8 years old boy whose parents, Eva and Dojčin, are divorced. Damir loves Spiderman and must “survive” swimming lessons his abusive father takes him to. The third story, “TOOTH FAIRY” is dedicated to children’s fear of losing their bodily autonomy and the fear of death. Seven year old MARIA, after the death of her grandmother, is most afraid of the “tooth fairy” coming at night to collect milk teeth from under the pillow. The story takes place in 1974. In the fourth story, titled “HONEY GOD”, six year old SNJEZANA tries to comprehend the different aspects of the world and its spirituality. Living with her extremely devout religious parents she enjoys observing her next door neighbor, a free spirited woman. The story takes place in 1993, the second year of the war in Bosnia. The fifth story, titled “ACID”, is about ANA, an eleven-year-old girl and the traumas of living with a cold, distant mother who can’t cope with her role of a parent. This story takes place in 2020, at a time when Tik Tok irreversibly enters the lives of children. The sixth story, “CIRCLES”, introduces us to 13 year old MAJDA and her “encounter” with an authoritarian physical education teacher. The era in which this story takes place is 1981, immediately after the death of lifelong president of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito. The final seventh story, titled “RECITAL”, takes place in the last year of Slobodan Milosevic’s reign, in 1999 during NATO bombing of Belgrade. EVA, is trying to persuade her deeply miserable and lonely mother to finally leave the house and attend for the first time her musical recital. In the epilogue, we will also meet Andrija, Eva's father and Damir's grandfather who is the hero of the story number one, as a boy in the 60-ies. It will conclude the complex relationship between parents and their children and close the circle.

Screenplay, director's statement and visual moodboard
are available for your consideration upon request at
srdjan@deliriumfilms.rs / biljana@deliriumfilms.rs

1999 (THE REJECTS)

Synopsis / The last part of the trilogy "90`s" after the films "Pretty village, pretty flame" and "The Wounds". The plot of the film takes place in Belgrade, where we follow the main characters during a night in May 1999, while NATO planes and "smart bombs" are bombing Serbia. "Rejects" is, almost certainly, MUSICAL - a genre that does not exist in serbian cinema. Considering ourselves "deadly" seriously, we have often neglected this genre. But, it seems that there is nothing more healing than the same. And in cinema, but also in life. The screenplay "REJECTS" won the first prize and financial support at the Festival in Thessaloniki, at the co-production market - The president of the jury who decided on the best project was Guillermo Arriaga, the writer of the films "Amores Perros" and "Babel".

Screenplay, director's statement and visual moodboard
are available for your consideration upon request at
srdjan@deliriumfilms.rs / biljana@deliriumfilms.rs

PASHA

Synopsis / (A Balkan Western comedy based on historical characters and events with a great deal of fantasy)
In the late 1860s, Turkish nobleman OSMAN PASHA and the future Prince of Montenegro NIKOLA are the cadets of the famous French military academy Saint-Cyr. Despite the centuries-old war between their countries, Osman and Nikola become best friends...

Screenplay, director's statement and visual moodboard
are available for your consideration upon request at
srdjan@deliriumfilms.rs / biljana@deliriumfilms.rs

INFLUENCE ME

Synopsis / Millie is a famous influencer with hundreds of thousands of followers. She has dozens of sponsors who pay her to advertise their products and services on the networks. However, Millie doesn't get a free stay at a luxury hotel...

Screenplay, director's statement and visual moodboard are available for your consideration upon request at
srdjan@deliriumfilms.rs / biljana@deliriumfilms.rs

MAJOR & HELENA

Synopsis / The true-life story of retired Serbian Army Major Helena Vuković is already, in itself, an incredible and unique film...

Screenplay, director's statement and visual moodboard are available for your consideration upon request at
srdjan@deliriumfilms.rs / biljana@deliriumfilms.rs

ALONE

Synopsis / In a women’s labor camp: a conversation that never happened.
 
A former warden of a labor camp and a former political prisoner of the same camp engage in a fictional conversation, and their opposing yet intertwined destinies fill the void excavated by oblivion in our collective memory.
ALONE is a collage documentary film that deals with suppressed events from the mid-20th century of former Yugoslavia and revives the silenced destinies and voices of women who were political prisoners. The literary-documentary narration of the film is based on radio interviews with a former warden of a women’s labor camp and the memoirs of a former prisoner. In their testimonies, each reflects on a shared past and the period of the Informbiro— the political split between Tito and Stalin— which marked their lives. However, both the protagonists and the film itself move away from political and ideological conflict and immerse into intimate spheres filled with memories, indoctrination, resistance, and the desire for survival. The director travels through locations across the Yugoslav Balkans where labor camps once existed and documents forgotten, decaying landscapes, following the traces left behind by the supervisor and the inmate. In its restrained, stripped-down directorial approach, positioned between Then and Now, this journey reflects the film’s central themes: isolation, loneliness, and their impact on the psyche. Archival footage, contemporary scenes, and the director’s visual travel diary intertwine, just as the confessions of two women from opposite sides of the same ideology do—yet bound within the same system that shaped, constrained, and silenced them. The gradual thematic, visual, and acoustic immersion into their worlds draws us into a spiral of images and circumstances and confronts us with the question: How can one hear one’s own voice amid the deafening noise of For and Against?

Director
Višnja Sretenović is a director and actress. She is dedicated to the realization of author-driven projects that combine different forms—fiction film and video art, performance and theater, artistic-research and literary works—and explore various aspects of femininity, mental health, as well as issues of historical and cultural heritage. Višnja has written and directed the short films Shared Stories, Intermezzos, and Maria, as well as the theater plays Dear Chris and beat the worries by partying!. As a collaborator, she has co-created audio dramas, films, and performances, while as an actress she has been engaged in various film, television, and theater productions.

If you are interested in reading the screenplay, exposition, and visual references, please contact
biljana@deliriumfilms.rs

BIOLUMINESCENCE

Synopsis / Vera, a family woman in her early 40s, visits the gynecologist because her period is late...

Screenplay, director's statement and visual moodboard are available for your consideration upon request at
biljana@deliriumfilms.rs