Our Father

Oče naš

Director: Goran Stanković
Country: Serbia, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy

2025 | 90 min. | Serbian
Subtitles: German, English

Cast_ Vučić Perović, Boris Isaković, Goran Marković, Jasna Žalica Screenplay_ Goran Stanković, Ognjen Sviličić, Maja Pelević, Dejan Prćić Camera_ Dragan Vildović Producer_ Snežana Van Houwelingen Rights_ Splitscreen

In this monastery, not even God can save you! A powerful drama about poisonous pedagogy at its most noxious. - Based on a true story.

Somewhere in Serbia. First, Dejan must endure cold turkey in a church-run drug rehabilitation center for men – accompanied by extreme physical pain. The institution is led by the Orthodox Father Branko, who rules with a mix of absolute power, hostility, and arbitrary benevolence. Anyone who breaks the strict rules is brutally punished. Eventually, a video exposing these methods is leaked to the public. And yet, the emotional dependence of the men in the center compels them to defend a system that could destroy them.

A tremendously powerful, focused, and superbly acted drama of unrelenting harshness.

Director

Goran Stanković is a Serbian filmmaker. He has directed several short films: ›Who Guards the Guardians (2006), ›Old Mountain‹ (2010), and ›Way in Rye‹ (2013), followed by the documentary ›In the Dark‹ (2014). ›Our Father‹ is his fiction feature debut.

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