Anđelka Petrović

Running from police, a small time thief finds a refuge in an abandoned video store. Forced to spend night there he decide to watch three horror films.

Shot on 16mm in one of the most remote regions of Tara Mountain, 1,050 meters above sea level, Balanar was a two-year odyssey marked by multiple production halts. Driven by an insanely devoted crew—composed of some of the finest film professionals working in Serbia today—the film also features a haunting score by legendary German composer Hermann Kopp (Nekromantik). Inspired by Żuławski, Carpenter, and Milius, Balanar is a love letter to American midnight cinema and Balkan mythology. It blends heavy metal, pop culture, and folk tradition—but at its core, it is an existential horror.

While helping her grandmother with paperwork, a withdrawn young woman spends the day waiting among strangers in a municipal office, where passing encounters quietly begin to unsettle her isolation.

Ema (16), after her parents suddenly sell the apartment where she grew up, runs away from home with her younger sister. She becomes obsessed with the only thing standing in her way and that is the man who bought the apartment.