Switzerland/ 2021/ 78’
DIRECTED BY: Nikola Ilić, Corina Schwingruber Ilić
SCREENPLAY BY: Nikola Ilić, Corina Schwingruber Ilić
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nikola Ilić, Corina Schwingruber Ilić, Pablo Ferro Živanović
EDITED BY: Myriam Flury
PRODUCERS: Franziska Sonder, Karin Koch
PRODUCED BY: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion
FESTIVALS & AWARDS: MakeDox: Young Onion Award – Best First Feature Doc (2021), Beldocs: Special Mention (2021), DOKLeipzig: Golden Dove – Audience Jury Award (2021), Zurich FF: Best Feature Doc (2021), Visions du Réel (2021), Molodist Kyiv (2021), DokuFest (2021), FIPADOC (2021)
Fifteen years ago Nikola left Serbia to follow his heart to Switzerland. Since then his life is shared between two countries and three women: his mother Dida, his grandmother and his wife. His mother has learning disabilities and has been dependent on the grandmother ever since. As grandmother is getting older, Belgrade is now calling Nikola back home. He can’t let his mother down, but he doesn’t want to give up his life in Switzerland.
Corina Schwingruber Ilić studied at the University of Arts in Basel, in Belgrade, and at the Lucerne School of Art and Design. She has shot a number of award-winning short docs together with Nikola Ilić, such as Kod ćoška (2013) or Just Another Day in Egypt (2015). Her shorts Baggern (2011) and Ins Holz (co-directed by Thomas Horat, 2017) became festival hits, while All Inclusive (2018) was selected at over 200 festivals such as Venice, Toronto and Sundance and was honoured with the Golden Dove of DOK Leipzig among many other awards.
Nikola Ilić is a director and cinematographer living between Serbia and Switzerland. In 2010, he majored in Video at the Lucerne School of Art and Design. He’s the co-director of Kod ćoška (2013) and Just Another Day in Egypt (2015). Also, his short Rakijada (2016) was shown all over the world and won various prices. He‘s the DoP of the well received short All Inclusive (2018) by Corina Schwingruber Ilić.