Directing

Nikola Ljuca

Born

1985-10-22 (41)

Place of birth

Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia)

Known for

Directing

Credits

12 titles

Nikola Ljuca was born on October 22, 1985 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He is a director and writer, known for Humidity (2016), Sergeant (2012) and Thursday (2010).

Known for

Humidity poster
4.6

The wife of a successful construction manager has disappeared after an ordinary morning in Belgrade. He is assured she will come back and continues with life, as usual. But, maybe she is just the first of the collapsed dominoes.

Humidity

2016

Rattlesnakes poster
NR

Nadja is a former human rights activist who now works as an assistant to Milanka, the director of Magnolia. This large corporation buys the factory of a former giant of the metalworking industry in a consortium with foreign investors, in order to turn it into arable land. Boris, Nadja's ex-boyfriend of many years and colleague from the research organization, returns from Italy to Serbia and starts working for Savić, a businessman with political ambitions. After Nadja and Boris are connected again by business, they fall into a vortex of personal, corporate and state interests, and the fate and future of a large number of people will depend on the decisions of a few.

Rattlesnakes

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No artwork available
NR

During a scorching summer, Ana, a young girl on the cusp of adulthood, seems to have the entire world crash and burn around her, as her father becomes more controlling, her mother more secretive and her grandmother passes away.

Fires

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Nightcap poster
NR

Two young couples, childhood friends, reunite at a prom after years. As they continue the party in an apartment, hidden emotional wounds and past traumas begin to surface during one intense night.

Nightcap

2025

Balkan Spirit poster
6.6

Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit".

Balkan Spirit

2013

Scenes with Women poster
NR

Every day Mirza spends with women. Every day he has to re-visit them and make them all happy. Today, he says goodbye to everybody.

Scenes with Women

2011

Film credits

Behind the camera

Humidity poster
4.6

The wife of a successful construction manager has disappeared after an ordinary morning in Belgrade. He is assured she will come back and continues with life, as usual. But, maybe she is just the first of the collapsed dominoes.

Humidity

2016

Humidity poster
4.6

The wife of a successful construction manager has disappeared after an ordinary morning in Belgrade. He is assured she will come back and continues with life, as usual. But, maybe she is just the first of the collapsed dominoes.

Humidity

2016

Rattlesnakes poster
NR

Nadja is a former human rights activist who now works as an assistant to Milanka, the director of Magnolia. This large corporation buys the factory of a former giant of the metalworking industry in a consortium with foreign investors, in order to turn it into arable land. Boris, Nadja's ex-boyfriend of many years and colleague from the research organization, returns from Italy to Serbia and starts working for Savić, a businessman with political ambitions. After Nadja and Boris are connected again by business, they fall into a vortex of personal, corporate and state interests, and the fate and future of a large number of people will depend on the decisions of a few.

Rattlesnakes

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Rattlesnakes poster
NR

Nadja is a former human rights activist who now works as an assistant to Milanka, the director of Magnolia. This large corporation buys the factory of a former giant of the metalworking industry in a consortium with foreign investors, in order to turn it into arable land. Boris, Nadja's ex-boyfriend of many years and colleague from the research organization, returns from Italy to Serbia and starts working for Savić, a businessman with political ambitions. After Nadja and Boris are connected again by business, they fall into a vortex of personal, corporate and state interests, and the fate and future of a large number of people will depend on the decisions of a few.

Rattlesnakes

—

No artwork available
NR

During a scorching summer, Ana, a young girl on the cusp of adulthood, seems to have the entire world crash and burn around her, as her father becomes more controlling, her mother more secretive and her grandmother passes away.

Fires

—

Nightcap poster
NR

Two young couples, childhood friends, reunite at a prom after years. As they continue the party in an apartment, hidden emotional wounds and past traumas begin to surface during one intense night.

Nightcap

2025

Scenes with Women poster
NR

Every day Mirza spends with women. Every day he has to re-visit them and make them all happy. Today, he says goodbye to everybody.

Scenes with Women

2011

Scenes with Women poster
NR

Every day Mirza spends with women. Every day he has to re-visit them and make them all happy. Today, he says goodbye to everybody.

Scenes with Women

2011

Sergeant poster
2.0

One night in Belgrade, a young guy meets a man for casual sex. By morning, different expectations can bring a new light on this chance meeting.

Sergeant

2012

Sergeant poster
2.0

One night in Belgrade, a young guy meets a man for casual sex. By morning, different expectations can bring a new light on this chance meeting.

Sergeant

2012

Observers poster
9.5

Three separate stories of young people targeted for human trafficking: Tamara, a girl who starts a relationship with a man who offers her attention and freedom from her empty life; Petar, who gets blackmailed after sending nude photos of himself to someone he thought was a girl online; Kaca, whose parents are financially struggling and suddenly offered a substantial amount of money for their daughter to go out of town for a period for a babysitting job.

Observers

2016