Proxima Competition / Kako je ovde tako zeleno? / Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria 2025
Nikola, 34, is a commercial director, he’s about to become a father for the first time, and he dreams of one day taking his young family on a road trip in an old van he wants to convert into a camper. Over the course of one weekend, however, accompanying his father and extended family to a small village in Dalmatia, where his grandmother’s remains are to be buried, he finds himself looking to the past instead of the future. Ostensibly, nothing remarkable happens during the course of the journey. Yet Nikola Ležaić’s second, quasi-autobiographical work uses subtlety to explore family relationships marred by the passing of time and by communication breakdown. In its own way, the film is also a contemplation of recollections, memory and post-Yugoslav reality.
Sandra Hezinová
114 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Nikola Ležaić
/ Screenplay Nikola Ležaić
/ Dir. of Photography Aleksandar Pavlović
/ Sound Jakov Munižaba
/ Editor Jan Klemsche
/ Art Director Nera Vulović
/ Producer Marija Lero
/ Production Qče
/ Coproduction Nukleus Film, PremierStudio, Forgrade
/ Cast Filip Đurić, Izudin Bajrović, Stojan Matavulj, Snježana Sinovčić Šiškov, Leon Lučev, Rada Mrkšić, Dobrila Stojnić, Đorđe Erčević, Milica Gojković, Branka Katić
/ Contact Qče
Nikola Ležaić. Filmography: Tilva Rosh (Tilva Roš, 2010), How Come It's All Green Out Here? (Kako je ovde tako zeleno?, 2025).
Qče
Vojvode Dobrnjca 50/15, 11000, Belgrade
Serbia
Phone: +381 64 3019 899
E-mail: [email protected]
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