Mysterious videotapes that have been stored away for 17 years contain mountaineer Dragan Jaćimović’s account of his climb of Mount Everest: he was the first Serbian to ever make it to the top. Vintage footage of alien landscapes and mystical mental states is interwoven with puzzling excerpts from his diary, composing an experimental meditation on a journey to eternal glory, and back to the banality of everyday life; a journey that changed him in ways he never intended.
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Director: Mladen Kovačević
Producer: Iva Plemić Divjak
Cinematographer: Dragan Jaćimović
Editor: Jelena Maksimović
Sound: Jakov Munižaba
Production
Horopter Film Production
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Awards
Special Mention at Visions Du Réel (2018); Grand Prix at Beldocs (2018); Special Mention of the Jury at ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival (2019); Special Mention of the Jury at Martovski Festival Belgrade (2019); Best Documentary Film at IBIZACINEFEST International Independent Film Festival (2020)
Director
Mladen Kovačević
Mladen Kovačević is a Serbian filmmaker and founder of Horopter Film Production. His films Unplugged (2013) and Wall of Death and All That (2016) won many awards at festivals such as Hot Docs, CPH:DOX, FIDMarseille, DOK Leipzig. 4 Years in 10 Minutes (2018) got the Special Mention at Visions du Réel & Grand Prix at Beldocs, and was featured at IDFA Best of Fests. His fourth documentary feature Merry Christmas, Yiwu (2020) was coproduced with ARTE and the Doha Film Institute, and premiered at IFFR Rotterdam.
Selected Filmography
Merry Christmas, Yiwu (2020), 4 Years in 10 Minutes (2018), Wall of Death, and All That (2016), Unplugged (2013)
