Sweet Sorrow

02/11/2024 - quanly

Feature Film/ Serbia, Croatia/ 95 min/2023

Director: Kosta Djordjevic

Screenwriter: Kosta Djordjevic

Director of Photography: Bojana Andric, SAS

Production: Milos Ivanovic, Kosta Djordjevic, Bojana Andric

Music Composer: Filip Mitrovic

Cast: Pavle Cemerikic, Branka Katic, Denis Muric, Alisa Radakovic

Synopsis:

Relja, a 16-year-old boy, just lost his grandmother. His mother, Olga, a cold and controlling woman, had such a bad relationship with her that she refuses to organize the funeral. Relja is not too bothered about it either. When he delivers the sad news to Ana, the girl he is desperately in love with, she feels struck by his loss and for the first time shows affection towards him. Relja realizes there might be a way to turn the tragedy into an opportunity, and engages in organizing the funeral secretly and against his mother’s will. Cleverly and unscrupulously, Relja maneuvers between love and death.

Director’s biography:

Kosta Djordjevic is a film and television director from Belgrade. His short film Street Walker competed at the Locarno IFF/Pardi di domani and won him the Best Director Award at the Interna-tional Student FF Hyperion. His first feature, Trolling, had its in-ternational premiere at the Warsaw FF in 2013 and was widely theatrically released in Serbia.

Filmography: ER, TV series, 2022; Ubice moga oca, TV series, 2019; Love Cuts, feature film, 2019; Black Sun, TV series, 2017; Trolling, feature film; Street Walker, short film, 2004