Zoran's lonely and all but pointless life turns upside-down when his estranged father is diagnosed with terminal illness, and he commits himself to helping him through his final weeks.
Zoran works for a Serbian reality show, pulling the overnight shifts while watching the contestants sleep in case anything interesting happens. The only real action occurs when he restocks the refrigerator for the contestants. In the morning he returns to a shared apartment and sleeps on a sofa. He wakes up, and soon he's back at work. It's not a thrilling routine, but Zoran seems to find himself in a rhythm he likes, or at least one he can tolerate. The flow of Zoran's life is disrupted by the news that his intolerable father, Vesa, has been diagnosed with an incurable disease.
"I think that being a reality show worker, whose main task is to observe other people while they sleep, while he himself suffers from insomnia, is an apt metaphor for loneliness. The game that develops between Zoran and one of the participants, Ema, became a perfect field to depict the need for closeness. I wasn't interested in reality TV as a phenomenon for social critique or satire /.../. For me, the phenomenon of a reality show where you are constantly monitored, where cameras are always on you, was most interesting precisely as isolation, as the ideal environment in which you begin to lose your mind." (Vladimir Tagić)
Talk after Screening
12 Nov at 16:00, Kosovel Hall, guest: Milan Ramšak Marković (screenwriter), moderator: Toni Cahunek
17 Nov at 18:10, Kino Bežigrad, guests: Vladimir Tagić (director), Andrija Kuzmanović (actor), Milan Ramšak Marković (screenwriter), Aleksandar Karaulić (director of photography), Marija Stojanović (producer), moderator: Toni Cahunek
18 Nov at 18:10, Kosovel Hall, guests: Vladimir Tagić (director), Andrija Kuzmanović (actor), Aleksandar Karaulić (director of photography), Marija Stojanović (producer), moderator: Damijan Vinter