23.LFF
Opatija
26.-30.08.2025.

Film

Serb

LFF16, Out of competition, Restart films

ABOUT THE MOVIE

In 1991, a girl of Serb ethnicity Aleksandra Zec was killed in Zagreb. A quarter century later, director Oliver Frljić in Rijeka posed a theatrical performance on this occasion. Theatrical trials become collective psychotherapy, and twelve-year-old actress Nina seems like the war has never ended.

Nebojša Slijepčević

Nebojsa Slijepcevic was born in 1973 in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2005 he graduated with Film Directing from the Academy of Drama and Art, also in Zagreb.He directed numerous TV documentaries and series, but also creative and author driven documentaries for which he received awards from various festivals (EDN talent grant at Sarajevo FF, human rights award at Sarajevo FF, best director at Verona FF, Audience award at Zagreb Dox…). Nebojsa is also the author of a short animated film Dog / Rabbit and a short fiction Slap in the Face, which is part of the fiction omnibus Zagreb Stories. He is director of feature documentary Gangster of Love, coproduced by Restart (Croatia), ZDF/ARTE, Kloos & Co. (Germany) and Subcultura Films (Romania).

Title: Serb
Year of production: 2018
Duration: 72
Production: Vanja Jambrović
Production company: Restart