Milica Grujičić

Belgrado, 1993. Serbia está en guerra, la gente lo pasa mal por culpa de las sanciones internacionales y la inflación desorbitada, pero cada cual hace lo que puede para sobrevivir. Marijana es la madre que mantiene unida a la familia. Su marido parece que solo levanta la mirada del suelo cuando mira a su hija Minja, que hoy cumple ocho años. En lugar del cocker spaniel que le prometieron por su cumpleaños, le traen el perro de tres patas del vecino para que juegue con él durante el día, y la tarta, en lugar de con mantequilla, ha habido que hacerla con margarina. En el salón de casa, Minja y sus compañeros de clase celebran una fiesta temática sobre las Tortugas Nija. En la cocina se apiñan los adultos.

Mundir is a loan shark in a small Serbian town, a former boxer with diabetes. He is old school, he realizes the times have changed, and that money lending business is not what it used to be.

The film narrates a tormented love story between one of the most famous poets of Serbian literature, Laza Kostic, renowned for his sublime poetic puns and word coining and an enchanting young girl by the name of Lenka Dundjerski, an educated and refined daughter of a landowner Lazar Dundjerski. Standing in the way of their love is the insurmountable age gap between the two, as Kostic is 29 years older than his beloved one. The affair inspired one of the most sophisticated and tender love poems of the time, an utmost expression of yearning, in which the poet's unflinching devotion is linked to his admiration for a Venice basilisk by the name of Santa Maria della Salute.

Through the intimate stories of seven young directors, October is the generational attitude towards Serbia today, shown in different perspectives and through different genres - from black comedy to melodrama, poetic portrait to the socially engaged horror. Motif that binds all of the stories together is the tenth anniversary of the democratic revolution. Each film is taking place on that day, 5th of October in 2010, and each film is differently related to the anniversary and what that event means 10 years after. The film brings fresh visions of the seven young directors who were teenagers at the time of the overthrow of president Milosevic and his regime. On a personal and emotional way they show a complex picture of modern Serbia.