Desire Lines
Branko can’t sleep. Something about his brother seems off, but there’s no one to talk about it. Branko follows him through the city’s passageways and parks, shadowing his every step. With each corner he turns, a terrible realization looms - his brother isn’t the strange one. He is. An unexpected telephone call from a forgotten friend breaks the surrounding silence. The voice urges him to leave the city behind and step into the unknown.
Credits
Director
- Dane Komljen
Screenplay
- Dane Komljen and
- Tanja Šljivar
Producers
- Natasa Damnjanovic and Vladimir Vidic – Dart Film
Co-producers
- Marc Thelosen – Serious Film ,
- Armin Hadzic – Marletti and
- Zsuzsanna Kiràly – Flaneur Films
With
- Ivan Čuić, Branka Katić, Petja Golec Horvat, Rok Juričić, Nadim Hendawi
Technical information
Serbia, Netherlands, Croatia, Germany, Bosnia 2025· 1 : 1,85 · 5.1. Mix ·
Funding provided by
- Film Center Serbia ,
- Hubert Bals Fund / Netherlands Film Fund ,
- Sarajevo Ministry of Culture and Sport ,
- Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Experimental and
- Eurimages
Festival
- Locarno Film Festival – International Competition
World Sales
- Square Eyes Film
Bio/Filmo Dane Komljen
Dane Komljen, born in 1986 in Banja Luka, SFR Yugoslavia. He studied cinema and art. He made three features, All the Cities of the North, Afterwater and Desire Lines, one documentary, The Garden Cadences, along numerous shorts. His most recent feature premiered in Locarno Film Festival's Concorso Internazionale. He works and lives in Berlin.