Slavic Artists Guide To Montenegro Film Festival

Your Slavic Artists Guide to this year’s Montenegro Film Festival!

Discover all the projects featuring Slavic Artists clients at the 39th Herceg Novi Film Festival.

22 – 28 Aug 2026

Feature Film – Out of Competition
‘Home’
Denmark, 2026, 104 min.
Director: Marijana Janković
Cast: Nikola Kojo, Dubravka Drakić, Branislav Trifunović, Petar Ćirica

In 1991, amidst the Balkan region’s dissolution and prompted by the unfolding events, 6-year-old Maja and her parents, make the decision to jouney from Yugoslavia to Denmark. However, their encounter with the promised land proves to be challenging ordeal for the small family, particularly for Maja. She observes in wonder as her parents desperately try to adapt to an entirely new world with its peculiar rules and traditions. But soon they realize that their new home is far from the fairytale land they dreamed of. Maja witnessing her parents’ difficulties, quickly learns Danish and consequently shoulders the responsibility of an adult to support them.

Production: Nordisk Film Production
Screenings: 22.08.

The Competition Programme – Feature Film
‘3 Weeks After’
Serbia, Bulgaria, Italy, Croatia, Luxembourg / 2026, 95 min.
Director: Miroslav Terzić
Cast: Branislav Trifunović, Anđela Alavirević, Jovan Ginić

It all begins as a typical school trip. A bus, school friends, professors, casual jokes, small excitements, and the well-known temporary sense of freedom children get when traveling. But gradually we start to feel that it is not well in that small community. Daily glances, teasing, and silences hide something nobody wants to talk about. Zoza is burdened by the death of his best friends who committed suicide three weeks before the school trip. When he decides to talk about his school friend’s failure to speak up, their decision to turn their gaze away and about brutal mistreatment of his friend, all attention turns to him.

Production: This and That Productions, Kinorama, Invictus, Nightswim, PTD
Screenings: 23.08.

TV Series
‘Crosscurrents’
Serbia, Montenegro / 2025, 8 ep, 45 min.
Directors: Sandra Mitrović and Nevio Marasović
Cast: Tamara Krcunović, Teodora Dragićević, Lazar Dragojević

Sanja Popović, a former junior tennis champion, is now a tennis instructor in Belgrade. Following the breakdown of her relationship with a married man, and on the verge of an emotional breakdown, she travels to Montenegro to reconnect with her estranged daughter and try to start over. But starting over proves far more complicated than she imagined. As Sanja attempts to rebuild her life and repair the relationship with her daughter, she finds herself caught in a new set of unexpected complications, relationships and romantic entanglements.

Production: TS Media, Režim
Screenings: 23.08.

The Competition Programme – Feature Film
‘Hidden People’
Slovenia, Serbia, Iceland / 2026, 97 min.
Director: Miha Hočevar
Cast: Alenka Kraigher, Blaž Šef, Olafur Darri Olafsson

Guti (35) and Sig (50) wake up beaten, hungover, and handcuffed together on a riverbank near Ljubljana. Sig, obviously a tourist, suffers from memory loss and can’t remember where he is from and why he is – as he thinks – stuck in Slovakia. Together with Guti, they embark on a journey to recover Sig’s passport and identity and, in the meantime, work on Guti’s dream project: a river raft that will hopefully rebuild Guti’s life that has fallen victim to bad divorce, failed bank loans, vicious bureaucracy, and many, many bad neighbors.

Production: Vertigo, Backroom Production, RTV Slovenija
Screenings: 23.08.

The Competition Programme – Feature Film
‘No Fairy Dust’
Serbia, Italy, Netherlands, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro / 2026, 100 min.
Director: Maja Miloš
Cast: Jovana Stojiljković, Anđela Jovanović, Marko Grabež, Bojana Stefanović, Ivana Panzalović, Milena Božić

‘No Fairy Dust’ is a modern Cinderella that follows Marija, an ice skater who lives with her father on the outskirts of Belgrade. Crushed by grief because her mother died, Marija can’t express her flaming sexuality. Her father gets close to a woman who moves in with her two daughters. Marija supports her father but realizes she can’t trust her stepmother. Because of financial troubles, Marija is forced to find new jobs that introduce her to the world in which women are exploited. Her stepmother has anger outbursts that escalate into fisical abuse. However, the love of the most desirable young businessman gives her strength to accept herself and her sexuality.

Production: Baš Čelik, Nightswim, Volya Films, Propeler Film, Spok Productions
Screenings: 24.08.

TV Series
‘Pupin’
Serbia / 2026, 10 ep, 52 min.
Director: Danilo Bećković
Cast: Jovan Jovanović, Filip Stankovski, Sam Bell, Danina Moguel, Aleksa Samardžić, Arsenije Berić, Milica Vrzić, Nika Rozman , Dominik Čičak, Tara Toševski, Miloš Samolov, Ivan Kirinčić, Marko Pavlović, Antonio Scarpa , Čarni Đerić , Jack Dimich, Filip Klicov

This biographical historical drama tells the extraordinary story of the life and legacy of Mihajlo Pupin, one of Serbia’s and the world’s most prominent scientists, patriots, and philanthropists. The series follows Pupin’s journey from his birthplace in Idvor, through his education in Pančevo and Prague, to his emigration to New York and his studies at Columbia University. It traces his rise from a young immigrant determined to build a new life to a pioneering scientist whose groundbreaking inventions transformed telecommunications and helped shape the modern world.

Production: Mali Budo
Screenings: 24.08.

The Competition Programme – Feature Film
‘Black Trumpet’
Montenegro, Serbia / 2026, 89 min.
Director: Bojan Stijović
Cast: Milica Janevski, Srđan Grahovac, Momčilo Otašević, Marko Janketić

In his hometown, where a celebration and welcome party are being prepared after a 10-year absence, a famous writer is awaited by his brother, sister-in-law, and a corpse.

Production: Cut-Up
Screenings: 25.08.

The Competition Programme – Feature Film
‘Our Father’
Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina / 2025, 89 min.
Director: Goran Stanković
Cast: Vučić Perović, Dado Ćosić, Toni Mihajlovski, Nenad Heraković, Nikola Šurbanović, Petar Novaković, Boris Isaković

When Dejan arrives at a monastery-based rehabilitation community for people struggling with addiction,he is welcomed by the charismatic Father Branko, who assigns him a mentor, Mionica, a former addict. Within a community governed by strict rules, harsh punishments, and brutal methods of treatment, Dejan quickly becomes Father Branko’s favorite. But when footage exposing violence inside the community is leaked to the public, Dejan-now Branko’s right-hand man-finds himself torn between loyalty to the man and the system that gave his life new purpose, and the demands of his own conscience.

Production: This and That Productions, Nightswim, PomPom Film, KINO, Dream Factory, Novi Film, Cineplanet
Screenings: 26.08.

The Competition Programme – Feature Film
‘Honey Bunny’
Croatia, Serbia / 2026, 97 min.
Director: Igor Jelinović
Cast: Leon Lučev, Snježana Sinovčić Šiškov, Aleksandra Janković

Tonina, a caring and confident accountant, runs her company together with her husband and daughter, and holds all the strings of the family logistics. Along with all these obligations, Tonina is taking care of her bedridden mother, who is suffering from dementia. Her younger sister Tatjana and her family have a much more easygoing and less ambitious approach to life. The sisters clash when Tonina secretly buys out a part of the family’s island house from a cousin, even though the sisters had agreed to buy it together.

Production: Eclectica, Bas Celik Film House
Screenings: 26.08.

The Competition Programme – Feature Film
‘Everything That’s Wrong with You’
Slovenia, Germany, Serbia / 2026, 96 min.
Director: Urša Menart
Cast: Anuša Kodelja, Klara Kuk, Matija Vastl

After the emotional collapse that follows her mother’s illness, Marusa builds an intense online connection with Alja, a nurse who lives in a small coastal town in Germany. Bonding through humour over their shared struggles, Maruša and Alja quickly develop a close friendship that is put to the test when they finally meet in person.

Production: Vertigo, Chromosom Film, Living Pictures
Screenings: 27.08

TV Series
‘The Home Resort’
Serbia / 2025, 5 ep, 50 min.
Director: Gvozden Đurić
Cast: Zlatan Vidović, Isidora Vlček, Stefan Vukić, Danilo Milić, Rista Milutinović, Predrag Kolarević, Marija Ašanin

Dramedy about the members of a lower-middle-class family who, due to an unexpected set of circumstances, find themselves trapped in their apartment for ten days, pretending to be on vacation. Inspired by a true event that took place in Banja Luka, the series explores the absurdity behind this seemingly inexplicable decision, gradually revealing the people and motivations hidden beneath it. As the days pass and the boundaries between pretending and reality begin to blur, one question becomes impossible to ignore: Who are these people, and what could possibly drive them to such an absurd act?

Production: TS Media, Adrenalin
Screenings: 27.08.

TV Series
‘The Vault’
Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro / 2026, 100 min.
Director: Matevž Luzar
Cast: Petja Labović, Aleksandar Gavranić, Tina Vrdoljak, Leon Lučev

When a night guard Sonja Kern wakes up on the floor of a robbed bank vault, she cannot remeber a thing. There is no sign of forced entry, no alarm, and nothing on the security cameras. The only person found inside, she is also the easiest to blame: a broke single mother with a police record. Inspector Deja Kolenc builds the case on instinct, while Maksimilijan Sotler, a coldly precise insurance investigator, approaches the same crime from the opposite side. Slowly, the structure behind the robbery begins to surface, leading to a mayoral campaign, a silence financier, and a document that powerful men will kill for. As Sonja’s memory gradually returns, one beat at a time, she is forced to choose between the truth and the only person she cares about.

Production: RTV Slovenija, Antitalent, HRT, RTVG
Screenings: 27.08.