One majority and one minority Serbian co-productions have been announced among the first six titles of the competition program of this year’s Kotbus Film Festival, which will take place from November 5th to 10th. One is a Serbian-Croatian film Love Cuts by Kosta Djordjević and Voice, a co-production betweenCroatia, Serbia and Northern Macedonia, by the screenwriter Marijana Verhoef and Ognjen Sviličić, who is the director. Both films were made with the support of Film Center Serbia.
Love Cuts follows an unusual day in the life of teenage girl Aja, her boyfriend and girlfriend from the hood, who wander through the heat of a summer day onto the hot Belgrade pavement, seeking ways to have fun, to feel alive, different and important. They choose the rules of the game themselves, and their own rules are the only once they recognize. Aya’s need and pursuit of love grows, from what seemed like a fling and adventure, into drama that will mark their young lives.
The film was directed by Kosta Djordjevic, with a screenoplay by Dragan Nikolić. The director of photography is Bojana Andrić, SAS, and the editor is Romana Vujasinović. Music waswritten by Filip Mitrović, set designer is Damjan Paranosić, and costume designer is Suna Kažić. Darko Kenig was in charge of the makeup. The cast include: Kristina Jovanović, Djurdjina Radić, Mladen Sovilj, Marko Janketić, Milan Čučilović, Radoslav Rale Milenković, Nikola Petrović, Aleksandar Ranković, Petar Kokinović, Nikola Vujović, Predrag Vasić, Uroš Novović, Sale Nićiforović, Dejan Aleksić, Jovan Zdravković, Zlatija Ocokoljić, Janko Cekić, Stefan Movacević, Mario Šaran.
Voice (working title God in the Shoe) is a movie about growing up, about individual faith, about hope. The protagonist is a boy, Goran, who is disappointed and without a family, left in a foster home under the patronage of the Catholic Church. The boy refuses to pray to God because he is angry at the whole world. The more they force him to pray and enforce the rules of the home, the more rebellious he becomes. In this resistance and in the series of events that engulg him, he realizes that there is nevertheless something outside ourselves that connects us all.
The film stars Franko Jakovčević, Belma Košutić, Karla Brbić, Barbara Vicković, Igor Kovač, Goran Bogdan, Stipe Radoja, Josip Lukić i and many others. The director of photography is Marinko Marinkić, set designer Ivana Škrabalo, costume designer Emilija Ivanovska Atanasovska, make up by Iva Kurobasa, tone master Igor Popovski, and editor Nataša Pantić. It is an international co-production of MAXIMA FILM from Zagreb, BIBERCHE from Serbia and the SKOPJE FILM STUDIES from Macedonian; it was supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Center, Film Center Serbia, the Macedonian Film Agency, MEDIA and Croatian Radiotelevision.
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