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Serbian film Until the Day Ends to premiere at Venice Film Festival
Jelena Maksimović's debut feature is the first narrative film by a female Serbian director selected for Venice in decades.
The short version
- Until the Day Ends (Do Kraja Dana) will have its world premiere in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival on September 10.
- The film, directed by Jelena Maksimović, is set against the backdrop of real-world anti-government student protests in Belgrade.
- It marks the first time since 1966 that a narrative feature by a female Serbian director has been included in the festival's official selection.
Key facts
- The film stars Lena Trifunović as an anarchist student and Andrija Krivokapić as a working-class youth who fall in love and flee Belgrade amid civil unrest.[The Hollywood Reporter]
- The setting of the film is inspired by the massive student protests and civil unrest in Serbia following a November 2024 railway station canopy collapse that killed 16 people.[The Hollywood Reporter]
- The film's script was co-written by Jelena Maksimović, Olga Dimitrijevic, and Ivan Salatic, with Heretic handling international sales.[The Hollywood Reporter]