The last image of father

Dusan and Laza are traveling through Eastern Serbia to Belgrade. Terminally ill, Dusan has to find a new home for his son Laza, to whom Dusan is all he has.

  • Stefan Djordjevic
    Director
  • Stefan Djordjevic
    Writer
  • Andrijana Stojkovic
    Producer
  • Marija Lero
    Producer
  • Igor Benčina
    Key Cast
    "Dušan"
  • Marko Matić
    Key Cast
    "Laza"
  • Marina Redžepović
    Key Cast
    "Marija"
  • Silvija Stojanovska
    Key Cast
    "Trena"
  • Damjan Radovanović
    Director of photography
  • Dragan von Petrović
    Editor
  • Dragana Bacović
    Production design
  • Biljana Grgur
    Costume design
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Poslednja slika o ocu
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes 29 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 13, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    30,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Serbia
  • Country of Filming:
    Serbia
  • Language:
    Serbian
  • Shooting Format:
    16mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:33
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Locarno Film Festival
    Locarno
    Switzerland
    August 13, 2019
    World premiere
    Young Jury Award for Best International Short Film
  • Sarajevo Film Festival
    Sarajevo
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    August 21, 2019
    Regional premiere
    Heart of Sarajevo for Best International Short Film
  • Zagreb Film Festival
    Zagreb
    Croatia
    November 6, 2019
    Croatian
    the Golden Pram for the Best International Short Film
  • Auteur Film Festival
    Belgrade
    Serbia
    November 24, 2019
    National
    The bravest film in category “Brave Balkan”
  • Angers Film Festival - Premiers Plans
    Angers
    France
    January 24, 2020
  • Pancevo Film Festival
    Pancevo
    Serbia
    December 6, 2019
    Best Actor
  • Thessaloniki Film Festival
    Thessaloniki
    Greece
    November 7, 2019
    Greek
  • Kustendorf Film Festival
    Mokra Gora
    Serbia
    January 17, 2020
  • London Short Film Festival
    London
    United Kingdom
    January 14, 2020
    UK
  • CinEast Film Festival
    Luxembourg
    Luxembourg
    October 15, 2019
    Luxembourg
  • Blue Danube Film Festival
    Budapest
    Hungary
    November 23, 2019
    Hungarian
    Student Jury
  • Seanema Film Festival
    Ulcinj
    Montenegro
    September 7, 2019
    Montenegrin
    Special Mention
Director Biography - Stefan Djordjevic

Stefan Djordjevic was born in Bor, a small industrial town in Eastern Serbia in 1987. After moving to Belgrade for studying, his main interest switched from making skate videos to film and photography. His amateur film "Crap" was the inspiration for the film "Tilva Ros" by Nikola Lezaic, in which Stefan plays one of the two main roles. The film won Heart of Sarajevo award for the best film in 2010., and it was nominated for the European Discovery Award by the European Film Academy.

He graduated both BA and MA studies at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Camera department. His graduation film was a short fiction film "A handful of stones", which was screened on many international film festivals and had international premiere at the ACID programme of Cannes Film Festival.

During studies he directed and shot a couple of short films , which some of them are: "Journey" (short documentary), "Juvenile" (short documentary), directed by Jovan Todorovic and "Wings and Things" (short fiction), which he co-directed with Jelena Gavrilovic.

He participated in Sarajevo Talents 2018.

His latest short film is “The last image of father”, which he wrote and directed, had World premiere at Locarno Film Festival and won Young Jury award for best international short film. Regional premiere was at Sarajevo Film Festival and the film won Heart of Sarajevo award for the best international short film.

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Director Statement

For the last seven years of his life my father was living and working abroad, until one day he suddenly passed away. During those seven years, I had seen him only once. All my memories of him are from the period when I was thirteen years old, while we were still living together. The one feeling I associate most strongly with our relationship is the feeling of care. His care for me, and from one point in time, my care for him. Some of the images were memories, while other were fantasies of what our relationship could have been.

The screenplay for “The Last Image of Father” came out of my need to articulate all those images through a story, and to, above all, express just how much I miss my dad.

I feel the biggest challenge for me was telling the story from the father’s point of view. It came out of desire to put myself in his position, because I think that now, as an adult myself, I can understand him better.