Belgrade is a city split in two. In the occupied buildings and crowded streets, Lena fights for a world she believes can be changed. Living in the same neighbourhood, Stefan is torn between the life he wants and the forces pulling him to the other side of the protests. When they meet, they recognise a shared restlessness neither can quite name.
Jelena Maksimović
Graduated in Film editing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, she has been teaching at the Faculty for Media and Communication in Belgrade, Digital Arts Department, since 2015. As an editor she worked on films such as ‘The Load’ (2018), ‘You Have the Night’ (2018), ‘Celts’ (2021) and ‘Landscapes of Resistance’ (2021) which screened in Cannes, Venice, Berlinale, Locarno, Rotterdam, Toronto and many others. She has directed two shorts (‘Milling the Lights’, 2012; and ‘Heavens’, 2014, codirected with Ivan Salatic) and two feature films: ‘Taurunum Boy’ (2018, co-directed with Dusan Grubin) and ‘Homelands’ (2020), which premiered at Cinéma du Réel and FID Marseille, respectively. In addition to film, she has achieved numerous collaborations in the field of video art, spatial installations and theatre performances. Her new feature film, ‘Until the Day Ends’ (2026), had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, in the Orizzonti section.
DIRECTOR
Jelena Maksimović
SCREENPLAY
Jelena Maksimović, Ivan Salatić, Olga Dimitrijević
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Paul Spengemann
EDITOR
Jan Klemsche
SOUND
Vladimir Živković, Julij Zornik
MUSIC
Vladimir Živković, Ace Vaptsarov
PRODUCTION
Jelena Angelovski, Nikolay Mutafchiev, Miha Černec, Jožko Rutar, Steffen Goldkamp, Dušan Kasalica, Ivan Salatić, Arda Çiltepe, Tena Gojić
