Lost Country

Genre: Drama
Director: Vladimir Perisic
Country: Serbia, France, Croatia, Luxembourg
Year of production: 2023
Czas: 108 min

Awards and nominations:
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award – Jovan Ginic
2023 Mostra de València-Cinema del Mediterrani: Best Screenplay– Vladimir Perisic, Alice Winocour
2023 Lumières Awards: Best International Coproduction – nomination
2023 Sarajevo Film Festival: Best Actor – Jovan Ginic

Serbia, 1996. Stefan, a teenage boy, spends his idyllic holidays in the countryside at his grandparents’ house. His grandpa tells him a story about his trip to the Olympics in Seul and the grandma prepares stuffed red peppers. When the boy’s mother, a successful big city woman, comes to visit, it turns out the family isn’t that ideal after all. It comes to light that Marklena is a representative for Serbian dictator Milošević’s party that has been engaged in bloody wars and crimes against humanity in the Balkans for years. This night everyone awaits the election results in which the opposition hopes to triumph in the name of peace and European future…
Stefan can afford no to be interested in politics. Now, however, the politics gets its interest in him. The election night will change the direction of his “coming of age”, torn between his family, love, and friends. The time of rural idyll will be replaced by turbulent days of the revolution which makes it impossible to trust even the strongest feeling. When you’re “Goebbels in skirt”’s son, life can make you pay your dues.

Author: Michał Zygmunt

Director:
Vladimir Perisic – he studied film art in Belgrade and the famous Parisian film school La Femis. He’s a modern literature graduate from the Sorbonne University. “Dremano Oko”, a short film he made at the film   school, was presented in the Cinefondation section in Cannes. “Ordinary people”, his feature directorial debut, was awarded in Cottbus, Miami, and Sarajevo.

Alice Wincocur – she co-wrote the film. She’s an acclaimed director and screenwriter, a co-author of “Ordinary people”. In 2016 she was awarded a César Award for “Mustang”.

   subtitles in Polish and English