Directed by Vuk Ršumović • 2024 • Serbia

Based on real events, Vuk Ršumović’s Dwelling Among the Gods recasts the human drama of the migrant experience as a modern-day Greek tragedy. Co-written by journalist Momir Turudić and drawing on his experiences reporting on the so-called migration “crisis” of 2015, the film follows Fereshteh (a riveting Fereshteh Hosseini), an Afghan woman freshly arrived in Belgrade with her family, en route to Germany. While detained in a refugee camp, Fereshteh learns that a young Afghan man who recently drowned in the city might be her missing brother Ali, and embarks on a brutal bureaucratic odyssey to claim his body and give him a proper burial. Replete with knowing references to Sophocle’s immortal tragedy of Antigone, Ršumović’s film unsparingly examines the struggle for human dignity in the face of an unfeeling world.

DWELLING AMONG THE GODS • MEĐU BOGOVIMA
Directed by Vuk Ršumović
Written by Vuk Ršumović and Momir Turudić
Cinematography by Damjan Radovanović
Music by Alessandro Ciani
Starring: Fereshteh Hosseini, Reza Akhlaghi, Branka Katić

In Serbian and Farsi with English subtitles