FATHER

OTAC

By Golubovic SRDAN

THE MATCH FACTORY - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2019

When a father is faced with the corrupt social services taking away his children, just because the family is poor, he sets out on foot across Serbia to appeal to the ministry in Belgrade.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale 2020
Panorama
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • SERBIA
    • Languages
    • SERBIAN
    • Duration
    • 120 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Golubovic SRDAN
    • Writer(s)
    • Srdan GOLUBOVIĆ, Ognjen SVILIČIĆ
    • Producer(s)
    • Jelena MITROVIČ, Čedomir KOLA, Alexander RIS, Marc BASCHET, Danis TANOVIĆ, Boris T. MATIĆ, Lana MATIĆ, Danijel R HOČEVA, Amra BAKŠIĆ ČAMO, Adis DJAPO
    • Synopsis
    • A small town in Serbia. Nikola, day laborer and father of two, is ordered to give up his children to social services after poverty and hunger drive his wife to commit a desperate act. Until he can provide adequate conditions for their upbringing, the children will be placed in foster care. Despite Nikola’s best efforts and several appeals, the head of the social services centre refuses to return his children and his situation seems hopeless. But when Nikola discovers the local administration may be corrupt, he decides to travel across Serbia on foot and take his case directly to the national ministry in Belgrade. Against all odds and driven by love and despair, this father refuses to give up on justice and his right to raise his children.