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