Dekanalog will release Father, the Serbian film directed by Srdan Golubović, in select U.S. cinemas, beginning Friday, April 15th. The Berlinale Panorama Audience Award winner opens at NYC’s New Plaza on the 15th and LA’s Laemmle Royal the following week. An expanded national rollout will follow.
In a small town in Serbia, Nikola (Goran Bogdan, Fargo), a day laborer and father of two, is ordered to give up his children to social services after poverty and hunger drive his wife to commit a desperate act. Until he can provide adequate conditions for their upbringing, the children will be placed in foster care.
Despite Nikola’s best efforts and several appeals, social services refuse to return his children, leaving him feeling hopeless. But when Nikola discovers the local administration may be corrupt, he decides to travel across Serbia on foot and take his case directly to the national ministry in Belgrade.
Against all odds and driven by love and despair, this father refuses to give up on justice and his right to raise his children.
Watch the trailer for Father.