SELECTED Projects
SELECTED Projects – DCB 2026
IT STILL GROWS HERE
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Director: Aleksa Bujišić
Production: Milan Radulović – ABA Film (Montenegro)
Estimated length: 70 min
Logline: Between the apartment blocks and the closed stadium, on a piece of land that is still alive, a group of people cares for the gardens every day, protecting them from oblivion, noise, and the plans that threaten to erase them.
ABYSSINIAN CAT
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Directors: Filip Martinović & Asha Broenn
Production: Efthymia Zymvragaki – Gris Medio (Spain), Filip Martinović, Asha Broenn – GULU GULU presenta (Serbia)
Estimated length: 90 min
Logline: When her biological sister reappears asking for help, a rootless woman returns to Ethiopia where she was born to confront her past. But their reunion forces her to face the wounds of abandonment and the difficult search for her true identity.
HOLE
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Director: Danilo Stanimirović
Production: Nikola Spasić – Inkubator Rezon (Serbia)
Estimated length: 25 min
Logline: While coal is being aggressively excavated in a huge surface mine, a group of archaeologists are slowly discovering an ancient Roman town next to it.
DO YOU WANT WAR?
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Director: Filip Lafazanovski
Production: Lea Maneva – CAVE Production (North Macedonia)
Estimated length: 40 min
Logline: At school, children connect fighting with love and sing turbo-folk songs about jealousy and possession. The film asks how ideas inherited as “just a game” or “harmless entertainment” shape children before they can question them.
AFTER THE CURTAIN
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Director: Enriko Hamzaj
Production: Elisabeta Rama – FILMSSCOPE (Albania)
Estimated length: 90 min
Logline: Inside Albania’s National Theatre of Opera and Ballet, dancers pursue a life in ballet while confronting the personal, economic and emotional realities that begin when the performance ends.
SILENCE OF THE CLASSROOM
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Director: Isidora Bulatović
Production: Jasmina Karajlović – Bridge&Beyond (Montenegro)
Estimated length: 75 min
Logline: In a small, remote Northern Montenegro village lives a nine year old Nikola, the only pupil left in local elementary school, moving through daily life marked by silence and isolation. As the community in rural zones slowly empties, he relies on imagination where loneliness takes form to make sense of the world around him. Silence of the classroom is an observational feature documentary with poetic animated sequences, portraying his experience across a year of changing seasons.