Ivan Ikić’s second feature Oasis is representing Serbia in the International Feature Oscar race this year following its buzzy premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The pic explores how a friendship between Marija (Marijana Novakov) and Dragana (Tijana Markovic) is put to the test, as they both develop a crush on Robert (Valentino Zenuni), a fellow resident at an institution for people with disabilities.
For the film, Ikić revisited the same medical facility where he shot a documentary 20 years ago. During the Sense Production film’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International, the filmmaker discussed how he used non-professional actors for the lead roles.
“I wanted them to play the roles which were scripted. They never had an opportunity to work in any film before so I could not rely on any previous experience. I started my own process of how to teach them to act in front of the camera,...
For the film, Ikić revisited the same medical facility where he shot a documentary 20 years ago. During the Sense Production film’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International, the filmmaker discussed how he used non-professional actors for the lead roles.
“I wanted them to play the roles which were scripted. They never had an opportunity to work in any film before so I could not rely on any previous experience. I started my own process of how to teach them to act in front of the camera,...
- 11/20/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The 30th anniversary edition of the German festival ran online.
Russian filmmaker Ivan I. Tverdovsky’s Conference won the main prize for best film at Germany’s FilmFestival Cottbus on Sunday December 13.
It is the story that incorporates the tragedy of the Dubrovka Theatre attack in Moscow in 2002 with the fate of one woman and her family. The film, which is handled internationally by Reason8 Films, had been pitched at project stage at the East-West co-production market connecting cottbus during the FilmFestival Cottbus in 2019. It made its world premiere earlier this year at Venice’s Giornate degli Autori.
It is...
Russian filmmaker Ivan I. Tverdovsky’s Conference won the main prize for best film at Germany’s FilmFestival Cottbus on Sunday December 13.
It is the story that incorporates the tragedy of the Dubrovka Theatre attack in Moscow in 2002 with the fate of one woman and her family. The film, which is handled internationally by Reason8 Films, had been pitched at project stage at the East-West co-production market connecting cottbus during the FilmFestival Cottbus in 2019. It made its world premiere earlier this year at Venice’s Giornate degli Autori.
It is...
- 12/14/2020
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
When Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy “broke” the Cannes Critics Week selection six years ago with the devastating “The Tribe,” casting deaf actors in an institutional parable exclusively told through sign language, it seemed some sort of event horizon for authenticity and formal daring had been reached. But the deserving Best European Film winner in the Giornate sidebar of the 2020 Venice Film Festival, “Oasis,” which is director Ivan Ikic’s second feature after 2014’s raw and rattling football-hooliganism drama “Barbarians,” may outmatch even that benchmark. An unadorned three-way love story set within the joyless confines of a Serbian institute for people with mental disabilities, it is an unsparing though enrichingly shot tragedy, and its three young stars, as well as most of the background cast, are learning-disabled residents of the facility in real life.
The approach lends the slight story an impressive gravity, while also treating its subjects with profound respect — a quality...
The approach lends the slight story an impressive gravity, while also treating its subjects with profound respect — a quality...
- 9/16/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Three teenagers living in an institution for people with special needs fall into an unexpected love triangle, and are suddenly forced to navigate powerful new feelings of envy and desire. As their emotions threaten to upend the carefully structured world around them, the trio find themselves increasingly willing to resort to desperate measures to find a way out.
“Oasis” is the sophomore feature film from Serbian director Ivan Ikić, which world premieres Sept. 3 in the Venice Days section of the Venice Film Festival. Starring Marijana Novakov, Tijana Marković, and Valentino Zenuni in their first acting roles, the film was produced by Milan and Marija Stojanović of Belgrade-based Sense Production, and co-produced by Tramal Films (Slovenia), Keplerfilm (Netherlands), Les Films d’Antoine (France), and Scca/Pro.ba (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Heretic Outreach is handling world sales.
The inspiration for “Oasis” was drawn from the real-life experiences of Ikić, who visited an institution...
“Oasis” is the sophomore feature film from Serbian director Ivan Ikić, which world premieres Sept. 3 in the Venice Days section of the Venice Film Festival. Starring Marijana Novakov, Tijana Marković, and Valentino Zenuni in their first acting roles, the film was produced by Milan and Marija Stojanović of Belgrade-based Sense Production, and co-produced by Tramal Films (Slovenia), Keplerfilm (Netherlands), Les Films d’Antoine (France), and Scca/Pro.ba (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Heretic Outreach is handling world sales.
The inspiration for “Oasis” was drawn from the real-life experiences of Ikić, who visited an institution...
- 9/3/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
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