Exit Through the Cuckoo’s Nest
Switzerland, April 2024
FILM,
Documentary,
19 min.
- directed by
- Nikola Ilić
- Written by
- Nikola Ilić
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- https://hook-film.com/project/exit_de
The essayistic personal short documentary tells the story of a soldier who never wanted to be one. Choosing never to pull the trigger, his defiance leads to military prison. Faking mental illness he detours away from the front line, through a lunatic asylum back home to Belgrade on the day that NATO begins bombing the entire country.
credits
- World Premiere
- April 2024
- Original Version
- Serbian (french/german subtitles), colour, DCP, 19 min.
- ISAN
- 0000-0005-8666-0000-E-0000-0000-W
- Production
- HOOK Film & Kultur Produktion GmbH
- Producer
- Laurin Merz
- directed by
- Nikola Ilić
- Written by
- Nikola Ilić
- Cinematography
- Nikola Ilić, Corina Schwingruber Ilić
- Editing
- Corina Schwingruber Ilić
- Location Sound Mix
- Nikola Ilić, Corina Schwingruber Ilić
- Sound Design
- Aleksandar Saša Rančić, Jan Godde
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- HOOK Film & Kultur Produktion GmbH
- Festival Distribution
- Raina Film Festival Distribution
Awards
(a selection)
- Guanajuato, Guanajuato International Film Festival, Special Mention: Best Documentary Short (International) 2024 (Winner)
- Belgrade, Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival, Best Editing 2024 (Winner)
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Winterthur, 28. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
05.11.2024 - 10.11.2024 -
St. Petersburg, 34th "Message to Man" International Film Festival St. Petersburg
18.10.2024 - 27.10.2024 -
Riga, 11th Riga International Film Festival
17.10.2024 - 27.10.2024 -
Tirana, 22nd Tirana International Film Festival
22.09.2024 - 28.09.2024 -
Sao Paulo, 35th Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival
22.08.2024 - 01.09.2024 -
Sarajevo, 30th Sarajevo Film Festival
16.08.2024 - 23.08.2024 -
Skopje, 15th MakeDox Creative Documentary Film Festival Skopje
15.08.2024 - 22.08.2024 -
Prizren, 23rd Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival Prizren
02.08.2024 - 10.08.2024 -
Guanajuato, 27th Guanajuato International Film Festival
19.07.2024 - 28.07.2024 -
Vienna, 21. VIS Vienna Shorts Festival
28.05.2024 - 02.06.2024
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Belgrade, Beldocs 2024 International Documentary Film Festival
22.05.2024 - 29.05.2024 -
Nyon, 55. Visions du Réel - Festival international de cinéma Nyon
12.04.2024 - 21.04.2024