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HOW COME IT’S ALL GREEN OUT HERE?
KAKO JE OVDE TAKO ZELENO?

• Director: Nikola Ležaić
• SERBIA, BULGARIA, CROATIA / 2025 / DCP / Colour / 114' / Serbian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Nikola Ležaić
• Director of Photography: Aleksandar Pavlović
• Editing: Jan Klemsche
• Cast: Filip Đurić, Izudin Bajrović, Stojan Matavulj, Snježana Sinovčić-Šiškov, Leon Lučev, Rada Mrkšić, Dobrila Stojnić, Đorđe Erčević, Milica Gojković, Branka Katić
• Producer: Marija Lero
• Production Co.: Qče 
• World Sales: Qče 

2025 Cottbus Intercultural Understanding Award

Nikola, a film director stuck in advertising, learns that his late refugee grandmother’s remains may be returned to her home village in Dalmatia. Joined by his father, he embarks on this journey from Serbia in an old van he converted into a camper for holidays, visiting the house he hasn’t seen in 25 years. He will gain unexpected insights into parenting, family, the passage of time, and the blurry nature of memory. ‘Actually, even before the trip, during a conversation with my dad, while I was on a commercial shoot, caught up in some bureaucratic mess with documents, I felt like I was in the middle of a movie. It seemed like part of a screenplay. Everything that happens in the film could have happened — maybe it did, maybe it didn’t,’ says director Nikola Ležaić, for his film that premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, in the main competition.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.