All the Cities of the North

Director: Dane Komljen
Cast: Boban Kaluđer, Boris Isaković, Dane Komljen
Serbia, Bosna and Herzegovina, Montenegro, 2016, 100', color
Serbian with Turkish subtitles

In the darkly wooded grounds and concrete boxes of what was once a Yugoslav resort complex, two men share an enigmatic, tender life. A stranger comes to town; things change, but how, what, and why remain ambiguous. In Dane Komljen’s richly suggestive, quietly moving elegy to lost utopias, no words are exchanged, and speech only comes in monologues, taking up questions on the architecture and administration of human sociality.

Ferda Keskin will be in conversation after the screening.

Free of admissions. Drop in, no reservations. No entrance after the first 15 minutes of the screening.

All the Cities of the North

All the Cities of the North

Trailer

All the Cities of the North

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Symbols

Symbols

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