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FIVE SCYSCRAPERS

PET SOLITERA

By Rastko PETROVIĆ

THIS AND THAT PRODUCTIONS - as PROD

Romance - Pre-Production 2020

FIVE SKYSCRAPERS is a coming of age debut film about lies, breasts, and masturbation. In the peak of puberty, Nemanja is spending his last summer as a single child occupied by sexual fantasies, not interested in his parents’ economic struggles.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- Countries
- SERBIA, NETHERLANDS, SLOVENIA
- Languages
- SERBIAN
- Director(s)
- Rastko PETROVIĆ
- Producer(s)
- Snežana VAN HAUVELINGEN
- Synopsis
- FIVE SKYSCRAPERS is a vividly captured tale of growing up, first love, and awakening of life’s desires.
  
  Nemanja is spending his last summer as a single child. His parents’ focus shifts away from him. His father lost his job and his mother is pregnant. Nemanja is abusing the situation as only a thirteen-year-old can. While his parents are constantly arguing, Nemanja takes every chance to be at the local pool with his friends. That’s where he meets Zvezdana, a girl that he likes. But his best friend Pera likes her too.
  
  When Nemanja’s parents find out that he failed school exams, he’s grounded for life. But that doesn’t stop him in his quest for the girl. While his mother in the hospital, his father who has a soft spot for his firstborn lets him off the hook.
  
  After a series of reckless events starting with getting drunk and making a fool of himself at Zvezdana’s house party, culminating by being caught by a nightguard, after breaking into the public pool, Nemanja is left even without his own father’s understanding and approval.
  
  With his mother giving birth to a baby girl, Nemanja is given a chance to reconnect with his father and through this process, the first outlines of his maturity emerge.
  
  Nemanja doesn’t get the girl, but he starts thinking. After making amends he’s rewarded by a freak incident in the changing room at the pool. He touches a young woman’s breast.