WHEN DAY BREAKS (Kad svane dan, 2012)

Memory to the victims of the Holocaust in Serbia

OPENING NIGHT

Serbia-Croatia-France. Direction: Goran Paskaljević. Production: Goran Paskaljević, Ilann Girard, Damir Terešak, Phillip & Madeleine Zepter, José María Morales / Nova Film, Maxima Film, Arsam International. Screenplay: Filip David, Goran Paskaljević. Photography: Milan Spasić. Music: Vlatko Stefanovski. Edition: Kristina Poženel. Cast: Mustafa Nadarević, Nebojša Glogovac, Predrag Ejdus, Meto Jovanovski, Zafir Hadžimanov. Running time: 90 min

LANGUAGE: Serbian / SUBTITLES: Spanish

Misha Brankov is a retired music professor. One morning he receives a letter asking him to contact the Jewish Historical Museum in Belgrade. There he is told that while excavating the sewerage system of the old fairground, a metal box was found in the exact spot where there was previously a concentration camp for Jews and Serbian Gypsies during WWII. The contents of the box will change his life.

Latest film from the Serbian Goran Paskaljević, Festival award-winner in 2010 and author important works including outstanding titles like Someone Else’s America (1995), Cabaret Balkan (1998), Midwinter Night’s Dream (2004) and Honeymoons (2009).