NEXT TO YOU
Serbia | 112 mins | [15]
Next to You is a murder mystery, set during the Covid-19 pandemic, about the emancipation and transformation of a young journalist in her struggle to find morals and integrity in a world that grows increasingly populist. Ksenija (Mina Nikolić) works in a trashy local tabloid, using her secret source to break juicy stories about local celebrities. But, as soon as her source first reveals himself as a person from her past, and is killed on the same day, her life and her career take an unexpected turn. Her tabloid is becoming more and more political, she is pressured to write positive articles about the government, Covid pandemic is wreaking havoc all around her, and the only person in her life who was her anchor and her family – her English Grandmother Vera (Miriam Margolyes) – tests positive for the virus. Now, Ksenija must choose between her increasingly political investigation, and the connections she needs to save her Grandmother’s life.
Writer/Director: Stevan Filipovic
Producer: Branislav Jevic
Cast: Mina Nikolic, Miriam Margolyes
SCREENING
Wednesday 26 June – 18.30
RAMSGATE COMMUNITY CINEMA
64 High Street Ramsgate CT11 9RS
MEET THE DIRECTOR
Stevan Filipović‘s first feature was Shaitan’s Warrior (2006). It won Grand Prix at Grossmann Fantasy Film Festival in Slovenia.
His next film was Skinning (2010). It was distributed in UK and Germany.
Stevan was the editor of Maja Miloš’s film Clip (Klip, 2012), which won Rotterdam FF Tiger Award that year.
He co-wrote (Next to Me (Pored mene, 2015) had the world premiere at 62nd Pula Film Festival in Croatia, and won the the Golden Arena award.
with Mirjana Karanović) the screenplay for the film Dobra žena (A Good Wife, 2016), which had it’s world premiere at Sundance FF.
His 4th film, Next to You (Pored tebe), starring BAFTA Award winner Miriam Margolyes, has premiered at Pula FF in 2023.