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SYNOPSIS

Luka is a troubled teenager from suburbs on the verge of adulthood who, with his best friend Flash, is a leader of local football club fans. During an unannounced visit by the social worker, Luka is faced with a family secret that his father, who was believed to had disappeared in Kosovo conflicts, is in fact alive and asking for him. Torn between family issues, the pressure of his ongoing parole and affection to a girl he can’t have, Luka looses his temper and breaks the leg of the local club’s top player. He is now under pursuit from people who seek revenge because of their ruined investment and even friends from his group take distance. The day of organized trip to Belgrade protests comes and Luka uses this opportunity to leave town. As hooligans demonstrate their rage in Belgrade streets, Luka gathers his strength to finally meet his father who abandoned him years ago.

Ivan Ikić

Born 1982 in Belgrade. Finished film and television directing at Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade as a best student in his generation. Attended Berlinale Talent Campus 2008 and Berlinale Dox Clinic 2008. Directed several documentaries, short fiction and commercial films. Director of documentary road-movie Tarot Serbia! (2010). Barbarians is his first feature film.

Filmography

2014       Varvari / Barbarians

Festivals

2014       Karlovy Vary, Sarajevo, Thessaloniki, Stockholm, Palić, Motovun, Helsinki, Trieste, Tbilisi

Awards

2014       Karlovy Vary  - Special Mention; Palić - Seyfi Teoman Award

Critique

Unlike its protagonists, this film knows where it's going and what it's doing. 

Boyd van Hoei, Hollywood Reporter