Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Maja Novaković
An elderly man works exhausting hours alongside his horse in the nearby forests, but the monotonous rhythm of his solitary life hides a deeper wound.

Maja Novaković is a Ph.D. candidate studying Sergei Parajanov’s poetics of heritage. Her debut, THEN COMES THE EVENING, premiered at Visions du Reel (2019) and secured an OSCAR qualification by winning at the Full Frame Documentary Festival. It received over 50 awards, was screened at 130+ festivals: Hot Docs, Sarajevo FF, SFFILM, Camerimage, Jihlava…, and made the Cinema Eye Honors nomination and Doc NYC Short List.
Filmography
Then Comes the Evening (2019)