REQUIEM FOR MRS. J.
Synopsis
On the day the family pet - a rabbit - dies, Mrs. J, a modest middle-aged widow, a former administrative clerk, decides to: bury the rabbit, wash a sink full of dishes, go to the store, dig up an old family pistol. She is determined to kill herself on the anniversary of her husband's death. In a week’s time. Mrs. J decides to go to a stonemason and hire him to place her picture on the tombstone; to return a borrowed chair to her neighbor; to visit for the first time the hyper-market where older daughter Anna works; to collect her severance pay from the bankrupt factory she spent half her life working in; to correct a typo in her name on her birth certificate. Mrs. J decides to do all that. But to start doing all that she needs certificate about her employment over the past 20 years. In a country which is going through social transition and administrative reform, this will be highly complicated. Because living in transition is complicated. And dying is even more complicated.
Festivals:
- Berlin International Film Festival Berlin Germany - 2017 Panorama Special
- FEST Belgrade International Film Festival Belgrade Serbia - 2017 national selection
- SOFIA International Film Festival Sofia Bulgaria - 2017 Competition
- Kino pavasaris Vilnius IFF Vinius Lithuania - 2017 Competition
- goEast Film Festival Wiesbaden German - 2017 Competition
- Espoo Cine Film Festival Espoo Finland - 2017
- Transilvania International Film Festival Cluj Romania - 2017 Supernova
- Moscow IFF Moscow Russian Federation - 2017
- Lucca IFF Lucca Italy - 2017 Competition
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Karlovy Vary Czech Republic - 2017 Another View
- Golden Apricot International Film Festival Yerevan Armenia - 2017 Competition
- Odessa Film Festival Odessa Ukraine - 2017 Competition
- Pristina IFF Pristina UNMI Kosovo* - 2017 Competition
- Palic European Film Festival Palic Serbia - 2017 Competition
- Sarajevo Film Festival Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina - 2017 In Focus
- Funf Seen Film Festival Starnberg Germany - 2017
- Der Neue Heimattfilm Freistadt Austria - 2017 Competition
- T-Mobile New Horizons FF Wroclaw Poland - 2017 Discoveries (Panorama)
- Vukovar FF Vukovar Croatia - 2017 competition
- Sopot Film Festival Sopot Serbia - 2017 Competition
- Vrnjacka Banja / Film Screenplay Festival Vrnjacka Banja Serbia - 2017 Competition
- Sakhalin Film Festival Sakhalin Russia - 2017 Special Program
- Nis Film Festival Nis Serbia - 2017 Competition
- SerbianNominee for the American Academy Award, OSCAR, 2017.
Awards:
- Best Screenplay- Bojan Vuletic
- Vrnjacka Banja Film Screenplay Festival (Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia)
- Best Director- Bojan Vuletic
- SOFEST (Sopot, Serbia)
- Golden Lily
- goEast Film Festival (Wiesbaden, Germany)
- FIPRESCI AWARD
- Sofia IFF (Sofia, Bulgaria)
- The Best Screenplay Award for Bojan Vuletić
- 45th FEST – Belgrade International Film Festival (Belgrade, Serbia)
- The Best Director Award for Bojan Vuletić
- 45th FEST – Belgrade International Film Festival (Belgrade, Serbia)
- The Best Actress Award for Mirjana Karanović
- 45th FEST – Belgrade International Film Festival (Belgrade, Serbia)
- Belgrade Victor for the best film in the national selection
- 45th FEST – Belgrade International Film Festival (Belgrade, Serbia)
Cast:
Mirjana Karanović, Danica Nedeljković, Jovana Gavrilović, Mira Banjac, Vučić Perović, Srđan Žika Todorović, Boris Isaković