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

With

Ivan Čuić, Branka Katić, Petja Golec Horvat, Rok Juričić, Nadim Hendawi

Producers

Natasa Damnjanovic, Vladimir Vidic – Dart Film

Co-producers

Marc Thelosen, Koert Davidse – Serious Film
,
Miljenka Čogelja – Pipser
,
Zsuzsanna Kiràly – Flaneur Films
,
Dane Komljen
, and
Armin Hadzic – Marletti

Line producers

Dragana Jovović, Čarna Vučinić

Cinematography

Ivan Marković, Jenny Lou Ziegel

Editing

Marko Ferković

Sound engineer – Hrvoje Radnić

Sound design and Music

Jakov Munižaba

Sound mixing

Tim Van Peppen

Set design

Dragana Baćović, Ana Ivanišević

Costume design

Strahinja Tabaković

Hair/Make-up

Tina Jasenković, Irena Miletić

Technical information

Serbia, Netherlands, Croatia, Germany, Bosnia 2025
1 : 1,77 · 5.1. Mix ·

Funding provided by

Film Center Serbia
,
Sarajevo Ministry of Culture and Sport
,
Hubert Bals Fund / Netherlands Film Fund
,
Croatian Film Fund
,
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Experimental
, and
Eurimages

Festivals

Locarno Film Festival – International Competition
,
Sarajevo Film Festival – Out of Competition
,
Festival Du Nouveau Cinéma De Montréal, Canada – Les Nouveaux Alchimistes Competition
,
São Paulo International Film Festival – International Perspective
,
SEMINCI – Valladolid International Film Festival – Alchemies Official Section Competition
,
European Film Forum SCANORAMA – Wild Cards section
, and
Auteur Film Festival Belgrade – International Competition

World Sales

Square Eyes Film

Bio/Filmo

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.