Croatia-based sales outfit Split Screen has acquired Serbian filmmaker Goran Stanković’s feature “Our Father,” ahead of its world premiere in Toronto Film Festival’s Discovery section.
Stanković’s recent TV series “Operation Sabre,” created and directed with Vladimir Tagić, was a prize winner at Canneseries. His feature documentary “In the Dark” world premiered at IDFA. Stanković, who was raised in Serbia, studied filmmaking at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, where his thesis film “Way in Rye” was nominated for a Student Academy Award for best narrative short.
“Our Father,” which is Stanković’s debut narrative feature, follows 32-year-old Dejan who, after years of spiraling addiction, arrives at a secluded monastery commune run by a strict but magnetic priest. Isolated from the outside world, the commune treats addiction through labor, discipline, obedience and faith.
Assigned a humble guardian and immersed in a rigid daily routine, Dejan begins a...
Stanković’s recent TV series “Operation Sabre,” created and directed with Vladimir Tagić, was a prize winner at Canneseries. His feature documentary “In the Dark” world premiered at IDFA. Stanković, who was raised in Serbia, studied filmmaking at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, where his thesis film “Way in Rye” was nominated for a Student Academy Award for best narrative short.
“Our Father,” which is Stanković’s debut narrative feature, follows 32-year-old Dejan who, after years of spiraling addiction, arrives at a secluded monastery commune run by a strict but magnetic priest. Isolated from the outside world, the commune treats addiction through labor, discipline, obedience and faith.
Assigned a humble guardian and immersed in a rigid daily routine, Dejan begins a...
- 7/23/2025
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Belgrade hosts co-pro meeting dedicated to women filmmakers as study reveals industry progress on gender equality in region.
Belgrade was the focus of a co-production meeting with a difference last weekend when the Fest Forward Industry Meetings (March 4-6) focused its public pitchings on projects by and about women.
“We decided that the focus should be on the situation of women in the film industry and gender equality because this issue is of particular importance for us in ex-Yugoslavia as well as other parts of the Balkans,” said the event’s managing director Miroslav Mogorovic.
Ten projects were selected for public pitchings ranging from Serbian first-time director Milica Tomovic’s The Last Goodbye, a romantic love story about a young urban couple in a long-distance relationship between Belgrade and Berlin, to Croatian directorial duo Marina Andree Skop and Drazen Zarkovic’s children fantasy adventure My Grandpa Is An Alien and Macedonian filmmaker Marija Dzidzeva’s drama The Victim...
Belgrade was the focus of a co-production meeting with a difference last weekend when the Fest Forward Industry Meetings (March 4-6) focused its public pitchings on projects by and about women.
“We decided that the focus should be on the situation of women in the film industry and gender equality because this issue is of particular importance for us in ex-Yugoslavia as well as other parts of the Balkans,” said the event’s managing director Miroslav Mogorovic.
Ten projects were selected for public pitchings ranging from Serbian first-time director Milica Tomovic’s The Last Goodbye, a romantic love story about a young urban couple in a long-distance relationship between Belgrade and Berlin, to Croatian directorial duo Marina Andree Skop and Drazen Zarkovic’s children fantasy adventure My Grandpa Is An Alien and Macedonian filmmaker Marija Dzidzeva’s drama The Victim...
- 3/9/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Belgrade hosts co-pro meeting dedicated to women filmmakers as study reveals industry progress on gender equality in region.
Belgrade was the focus of a co-production meeting with a difference last weekend when the Fest Forward Industry Meetings (March 4-6) focused its public pitchings on projects by and about women.
“We decided that the focus should be on the situation of women in the film industry and gender equality because this issue is of particular importance for us in ex-Yugoslavia as well as other parts of the Balkans,” said the event’s managing director Miroslav Mogorovic.
Ten projects were selected for public pitchings ranging from Serbian first-time director Milica Tomovic’s The Last Goodbye, a romantic love story about a young urban couple in a long-distance relationship between Belgrade and Berlin, to Croatian directorial duo Marina Andree Skop and Drazen Zarkovic’s children fantasy adventure My Grandpa Is An Alien and Macedonian filmmaker Marija Dzidzeva’s drama The Victim...
Belgrade was the focus of a co-production meeting with a difference last weekend when the Fest Forward Industry Meetings (March 4-6) focused its public pitchings on projects by and about women.
“We decided that the focus should be on the situation of women in the film industry and gender equality because this issue is of particular importance for us in ex-Yugoslavia as well as other parts of the Balkans,” said the event’s managing director Miroslav Mogorovic.
Ten projects were selected for public pitchings ranging from Serbian first-time director Milica Tomovic’s The Last Goodbye, a romantic love story about a young urban couple in a long-distance relationship between Belgrade and Berlin, to Croatian directorial duo Marina Andree Skop and Drazen Zarkovic’s children fantasy adventure My Grandpa Is An Alien and Macedonian filmmaker Marija Dzidzeva’s drama The Victim...
- 3/9/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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