FNC – Desire Lines

Les nouveaux alchimistes

“Branko, an insomniac loner, lives cut off from the world, withdrawn from society. Obsessed with his younger brother’s strange behavior, he begins to follow him day after day, through an oppressive Belgrade turned into a mental labyrinth. Little by little, the pursuit becomes a mirror: what if the disturbance did not come from the other, but from himself? With striking formal rigor and a hypnotic slowness, Desire Lines unfolds as a sensory plunge into the labyrinths of paranoia, probing the psyche of a drifting man through choreographed staging and Brechtian dialogue. Heir to Angela Schanelec, Dane Komljen delivers a film at once glacial and sensual, a hallucinatory vertigo suspended between graceful asceticism and existential unease. A feverish, spectral, magnetic mirage.”

Festival du film de Locarno 2025 – Concorso Internazionale