78 Days

New Directors Competition

78 Days

78 Dana

Serbia 2024 Fiction cor 82 min.

Just before their father is conscripted during the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia, teenage sisters Sonja and Dragana begin a Hi8 video diary, overwriting older recordings that periodically appear between the newly shot scenes. Days go by as they film the peaceful nature around them, the trembling sky at night during air raids and their teasing of their seven-year-old sister, Tijana. Things change when a mysterious boy and his shy, younger sister arrive from Belgrade and move into the neighbor’s house. Soon, new friendships, first kisses and first disappointments take over the fear of bombs.

Presented at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and IndieLisboa.

Serbia war international film festivals adolescence female directors

direction

Emilija Gašić

screenplay

Emilija Gašić

cinematography

Inés Gowland

editing

Jovana Filipović

sound design

Dora Filipović

production design

Maja Đuričić

cast

Viktorija Vasiljević, Milica Gicić, Tamara Gajović, Pavle Čemerikić, Maša Ćirović, Jelena Djokić, Goran Bogdan

production

Andrijana Sofranić Šućur, Miloš Ivanović, Djordje Ćirić

produced by

Set Sail Films

world sales

Lights On

contact

[email protected]

indicative rating

10