Balkan, Baby
supporting film to "Cherry Juice"
Storyline
Martina is a good immigrant. At least she's always done everything she can to be perceived as such in Germany. But then she meets the young Dunja during a short vacation at Lake Starnberg. Dunja is self-confident, non-conformist and, above all, she stands by her Yugoslavian and Balkan origins - unlike Martina. Suddenly, Martina is forced to confront a part of her identity that she has repressed all her life.
About the film/director
Boris Gavrilović was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1996 and moved to Germany at the age of twelve. After studying design, he studied feature film directing at the HFF Munich in 2020. His short film KAFANA NA BALKANU won the audience award at Inter film Berlin in 2023 and the second prize of the jury in the German competition. The film also celebrated its international premiere in the international competition of the rClermont-Ferrand Int‘l Film Festival and it is nominated for the European Short Film Audience Award 2024/25. Boris is the editor of "Echoes from Borderland" (director: Lara Milena Brose) - a 75-minute documentary film that won the award for best documentary at the Max Ophüls Preis 2024. Boris is a scholarship holder of the Deutschlandstipendium and he is part of the queer artist collective queer:raum since 2023.
Credits
Director:
- Boris Gavrilović
- Script:
- Boris Gavrilović, Laura Lybaschenko, Ecem Çalışır
- Camera:
- Leander Hartung
- Editor:
- Boris Gavrilović
- Cast:
- Ružica Hajdari, Senita Huski, Franziska Roth, Arne Kübler, René Oltmann
- Sound:
- Stella Deborah Traub
- Music:
- Producer:
- Kirsten Wehr
- Contact:
- Boris Gavrilović
- E-Mail:
- boris.gavrilovic@campus.hff-muc.de
Germany
- German, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian / subtitles German
- 2023
- 18 min