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"There's no turning back now." Something new from Serbia! TIFF has unveiled a festival promo trailer for a Serbian horror dark comedy called Working Class Goes To Hell, the second feature film by director Mladen Djordjevic. Sounds like something wacky and funny and weird and crazy. Here is the quick TIFF intro: "A small-town labor union turns to the dark arts for empowerment against the corrupt forces in their community in Mladen Đorđević’s timely and disturbing socio-horror satire." Essentially it's about a group of workers from a factory that has closed who decide to reach out to the supernatural in a struggle for personal dignity. They, of course, unleash mostly just madness. "One is reminded that sometimes the only salvation for the working class, besides solidarity, is a sharp sense of humor." The cast features Tamara Krcunovic, Leon Lucev, Ivan Djordjevic, Mirsad Tuka, Szilvia Krizsan, Lidija Kordic, and Momo Picuric.

Germany-based sales agent Patra Spanou Film has acquired rights to “Working Class Goes to Hell,” which will world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness strand.

Directed by Mladen Đorđević (“The Life and Death of a Porno Gang”), the film follows a group of ex-workers, who, after losing their loved ones, jobs, and dignity to a tragic factory fire and corrupt privatization, seek hope and justice in the supernatural.

The cast includes Tamara Krcunovic (“Humidity”), Leon Lucev (“The Load”), Momo Picuric, Ivan Djordjevic, Lidija Kordic, Mirsad Tuka, Szilvia Krizsan and Tomislav Trifunovic.

“Working Class Goes to Hell,” previously titled “Labour Day,” is supported by Film Center Serbia, Bulgarian National Film Centre, Greek Film Centre, Film Centre of Montenegro, Croatian Audiovisual Centre and Eurimages. The film is produced by Milan Stojanovic (Sense Production), Mladen Djordjevic (Banda), Martichka Bozhilova and Neda Milanova (Agitprop), Maria Drandaki (Homemade Films), Ivan Marinovic...

The Serbian writer-director is shooting his second feature-length fiction film, which combines socio-political realism with elements of a psychological thriller. Serbian writer-director Mladen Djordjević, known for his brave and provocative style and references to the tradition of the Yugoslav Black Wave in his transgressive arthouse hit Life and Death of a Porno Gang and the docudrama Vienna Hallways, started shooting his second feature-length fiction film, Labour Day, on location near Belgrade last weekend. The plot follows a group of ex-workers from a recently closed factory, who, in their fight for personal dignity, reach out to the supernatural. The film relies on a large ensemble of regional actors, including Tamara Krcunović (Humidity), Leon Lučev (The Load), Momo Pićurić (The Black Pin), Ivan Djordjević, Szilvia Kriszan, Mirsad Tuka, Lidija Kordić, Tomislav Trifunović, Olivera Viktorović and Stefan Sterev. Djordjević describes Labour Day as “a film about the potential for rebellion and the limitless.