Nađa Petrović

Writing

Nađa Petrović

Known for

Writing

Credits

12 titles

Nađa Petrović (1997) graduated dramaturgy at the FDA in Belgrade, and a master's degree in film directing. Her novel ‘’Jellyfish live forever until they are caught" was shortlisted for NIN's award. Over 10 short films including DOG DAYS OF SUMMER, SHERBET, EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE, she wrote were shown at over 100 festivals around the world. She directed SMELL OF FRESH PAINT that won Heart of Sarajevo for Best Student Film in 2024.

Known for

Behind the camera

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Bela sedmica

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The Lark poster
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Arriving from a small town to a huge Belgrade, Iva faces her molester and an event that will reinvoke her childhood trauma.

The Lark

2021

Sherbet poster
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Ena and Sale – both of them destructive and hungry for life – meet. As they are trying to interpret their feelings, the two are pressured by the burdens of their past and haunted by their fears. Through acts of aggression on the outskirts of a dirty city, they test the limits of their love.

Sherbet

2019

Bull's Eye poster
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Mateja and Beli are best friends. When Mateja begins to dream of Beli as an S&M bull, their relationship changes rapidly, and hiding things leads to violence.

Bull's Eye

2024

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Borna is a young, up and coming star in the world of Croatian football. However, as his training continues, he realizes that his desire to win may not, in fact, be his true wish at all.

The Selection

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Dog Days of Summer poster
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A teenage girl, bursting with lust for life, is moving to California, leaving behind everything she ever loved. In a dying, working class hometown in Serbia, she spends her last day with two childhood friends. Abandoned places bring up memories of a wild childhood, two boys are torn by the love for the same girl.

Dog Days of Summer

2019

Cornelian Cherries poster
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The death of a beloved dog reunites a small family. A lonely middle aged mother and her eccentric aunt obsessed with modern day technology take a trip to the rural parts of Serbia, where the dog is buried. There, the ex husband and his senile father help them decorate the dog's grave.

Cornelian Cherries

2020

The Ghosts You Draw On My Back poster
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Teenage Sara travels to a small provincial town to attend the memorial service for her grandmother. While fighting her wounds and fears, Sara finds shelter in the company of a worker from the construction site.

The Ghosts You Draw On My Back

2023

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Matija, an amnesiac author writing his third book, confronts his fabricated memories and forgotten past. His journey reveals childhood trauma, reflecting both personal struggles and the collective experience of 1990s Balkan nations.

Two Little Nightmares

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The Smell of Fresh Paint poster
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Ema (16), after her parents suddenly sell the apartment where she grew up, runs away from home with her younger sister. She becomes obsessed with the only thing standing in her way and that is the man who bought the apartment.

The Smell of Fresh Paint

2024

The Smell of Fresh Paint poster
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Ema (16), after her parents suddenly sell the apartment where she grew up, runs away from home with her younger sister. She becomes obsessed with the only thing standing in her way and that is the man who bought the apartment.

The Smell of Fresh Paint

2024

Everything in Its Right Place poster
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Jovana, a single, working-class mother, wants to spend her birthday with her daughter Sara, but her plans are ruined when Sara invites her father to come.

Everything in Its Right Place

2022