Story
According to Interpol, over ten thousand refugees of minors without parental care are wandering today in Europe, half of which are on Italian roads. "Despite the Fog" is a movie story about one of them. In short: Ali-Musa Sarhan, a refugee whose parents drowned while traveling by rubber boat on the Italian coast in search of a better life, is accepted by family, husband and wife who have lost a child. They are trying to find solace in little Arab and a sort of replacement for their early deceased son, Mark. Valeria (Donatella Finokjaro) and Paolo (Giorgio Tirabasi) are increasingly confronted with resistance from the environment and their own family, who do not accept their decision to keep Muhammad - It is also a story of a world that is increasingly sinking into xenophobic fog.
Writer
The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It was buried by an inmate Isaac Weiss in the year 1941. The professor finds out that his real parents, the Weiss's, gave him away to their friends, the Brankovs, just before they were taken into the camp. Inside the box there is an unfinished musical score, called "When day breaks", composed by the inmate Isaac Weiss. Searching for the truth about himself and his origins, Misha discovers the little-known truth about Judenlager Semlin camp, one of the worst Nazi execution sites in the heart of contemporary Belgrade. At the same time, the professor's obsession is to complete the composition, started by his father, and to perform it on the site of the former camp... which he, after many vicissitudes, finally succeeds.
Himself
In 1989 a youth radio station, B-92, started up in Belgrade. It almost immediately became a symbol of the resistance to Serbian nationalism and all that Slobodan Milosevic decreed. Here, the young radio workers give a candid account of life in Belgrade throughout the years of war. They also describe their own contribution, despite all the authorities' efforts to suppress them, to the liberation of their city and their country.
Screenplay
Сербия, зима 2004 года. Лазарь возвращается домой после долгих десяти лет отсутствия. Он стал совсем другим человеком: снова обретя свободу, он решил сбросить с себя тяжелый груз прошлого и начать новую жизнь в стране, которая казалось бы тоже стремится к лучшему будущему. В его прежней квартире теперь живет Ясна, одинокая мать, воспитывающая двенадцатилетнюю дочь Йовану, больную аутизмом. Она оказывается беженкой из Боснии, незаконно проживающей в квартире Лазаря уже какое-то время. Ясна, чей муж так и не принял их больную дочь и ушел из семьи, тоже хочет забыть свое нелегкое прошлое. Лазарю становится жалко мать и дочь, которым некуда идти, и он разрешает им остаться. Постепенно между тремя людьми, изолированными от общества, зарождается особое чувство родства...
Writer
Caffe 'Boomerang' is one of Belgrade's many cafes. Seemingly just a backdrop for our cast of crazy characters, but in reality much more than that.
Writer
Что значит человеческая жизнь, когда вокруг бушует война, делающая сердца людей каменными, а умы — безразличными ко всему? Еще недавно цветущая, а ныне — разодранная на куски и обильно орошенная кровью, земля Югославии жестоко мстит за свою боль. Лишь вера в себя помогает молодым героям противостоять мраку, сгустившемуся над пороховой бочкой Европы — Балканами…
Writer
A romance based on the motifs of the novel by Veljko Petrovic “Maria, Where Are You?”
Screenplay
After spending 20 years in America, aging widower Marko Sekulovic (Karl Malden) returns to his Yugoslavian homeland to take care of his two young grandchildren. But Marko's quiet life is in for a shake up when he meets the pretty new village schoolteacher, Lana (Jodi Thelen). Malden pays tribute to his Yugoslav heritage in this affecting 1982 drama.
Screenstory
Dr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own "special treatment" through physical exercises, apple eating, the healing effects of listening to Wagner's music and psychodrama, a group of six patients have been taken to visit the brewery where there is a problem of alcoholism in the workplace.
Writer
A terrified young man is running away from the mysterious man in a black coat and a bowler hat. He finds the asylum in the nearby mental hospital, where the doctor takes care of him. However, one cannot escape from his fate.
