Maja Novaković’s short documentary film Then Comes the Evening has won its 52nd festival award, the Special Jury Award at the Eighth International Documentary Film Festival “Apricot Tree” in Ujan, Armenia. The film was produced with the support of Film Center Serbia.
This film depicts the life of two elderly women who live isolated in the hills of Eastern Bosnia. Nature is an entity that the women “talk to”, listen to and respect. The film highlights the intangible cultural heritage through the depiction of fairy tales and rituals against bad weather, hail and storm. The simplicity and purity of their life as well as their hard work are shown. In the daily tasks they perform, the sublimity and hardship of those activities is revealed and revived. The plot of the film is everyday life or a genre – scenes of life in the countryside, which show the care and closeness of grandmothers, both in their mutual relationships and in their relationship to nature.
The screenwriter and director is Maja Novaković, who, along with Milan Milosavljević, is also the producer of the film. The protagonists of the film are Vinka Radić and Obrenija Radić. The director of photography is Jasna Prolić, and Maja Novaković also took care of the camera work. Camera assistants were Strahinja Marković, Marko Jakasović and Filip Obradović. Color correction is the work of Dušan Grubin, and visual effects are by Ivan Milosavljević. The film was edited by Marija Kovačina, and the sound design was handled by Luka Barajević. The sound mixer is Aleksandar Rančić, and the sound recordist is Prvoslav Živanović. Maja Novaković also took care of the scenography. The production assistant was Nikica Novaković. The film was created under the auspices of the “Student City” Cultural Center, that is, the Academic Film Center (AFC) and with the support of Film Center Serbia.