EXIT THROUGH THE CUCKOO’S NEST

Short Doc I 2024/19min.

The essayistic personal short documentary tells the story of a soldier who never wanted to be one. Choosing never to pull the trigger, his defiance leads to military prison. Faking mental illness he detours away from the front line, through a lunatic asylum back home to Belgrade on the day that NATO begins bombing the entire country.

 

AWARDS:

Best Editing Award, BELDOCS Int. Documentary Film Festival (Belgrade, RS)
Best Short Film, Underhill Film Festival MN
Jury AWARD, KINEMASTIC Int. Film Festival Malta
Special Jury Mention – Guanajuato Int’l FF, Mexico
COSMOS Award for Best Innovative Film – Curtocircuíto Int. Film Fest

 

 

FESTIVALS:

Visions du Reel (Nyon, Switzerland)
Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival (Belgrade, Serbia)
Vienna Shorts (Vienna, Austria)
Syncro Film Fest (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Underhill Film Festival (Podgorica, Monte Negro)
Dokufest, Prizren KO
Icedocs FF, Akranes ISL
Makedox, Skopje MK
Guanajuato FF MEX
FEKK, Ljubljana SLO
Sarajevo Film Festival BA
TIFF- Tirana Int. Film Festival 2024 AL,
Sao Paolo ISFF, BR
Kinemastic FF, Malta
BOLTON FF, UK
ELBE DOCK, DEU | CZ
AricaDoc, Chile
RIGA IFF, LV
Message to Man, Russia
Cineast FF, Luxemburg
Curtocircuíto – International Film Festival, ES
41. Kassler Dokfest, DE
46th Cinemed – Montpellier International Mediterranean Film Festival, FRA
International Crime and Punishment Film Festival (İstanbul)
Kurzfilmtage Winterthur FF, CH
44th Amiens Film Festival, FRA
Winter Apricots, MK
THIS HUMAN WORLD, AU
Beirut Int. Short Film Festival , LEBN