Belgrade, 2022: A photojournalist is threatened by right-wing extremist groups in her Serbian home and flees to Germany with her daughter. But then she also experiences increasing strong threats and attacks in her new home.
Acting
Nika Rozman's silent panic is absolutely shattering.
Direction
Denić refuses to let you breathe for 29 minutes.
Sound
Every notification ping becomes a threat.
Director
Tamara Denić
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Tamara Denić based this on real Serbian journalists who fled to EU countries only to face coordinated harassment campaigns organized from abroad. The 'Hamburg connection' is devastatingly common.
The title 'Istina' (Truth) was the name of a banned Yugoslav newspaper. Denić deliberately chose it to echo how press freedom keeps getting murdered and resurrected in the Balkans.
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