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.