Upon Sunrise
TITLE
Upon Sunrise
DIRECTOR
Stefan Ivančić
COUNTRY
Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain
YEAR
2025
DURATION
15′
GENRE
Fiction
Upon Sunrise
After losing her job, a single mother engages in petty scams in an attempt to provide for her six-year-old son.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Stefan Ivančić
Stefan Ivančić is a film director, producer and programmer born in 1985 in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia. He graduated Film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade. His short films have been selected in many international festivals such Cannes, Rotterdam, FID Marseille, San Sebastian, Visions du Réel and Torino, among others. Stefan is the producer of the feature film The Load (2018) by Ognjen Glavonić, premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, and Wind, Talk to Me (2025) by Stefan Djordjević, premiered in the Tiger Competition of the IFF Rotterdam, as well as a co-producer of You Have the Night (2018) and Wondrous is the Silence of My Master (2025) by Ivan Salatić, and Have You Seen This Woman? (2022) by Dušan Zorić and Matija Gluščević. He is a member of the selection committee of the Locarno Film Festival and is also a programmer at the Belgrade Auteur Film Festival. He teaches at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He is a member of the European Film Academy.
- DirectorStefan Ivančić
- Screenplay Nadja Petrović, Stefan Ivančić
- Cinematography Stefan Djordjević
- CastMilica Janevski, Dimitrije Baranov, Ramila Tomović, Nadežda Djermanović, Milica Stefanović
- EditingJelena Maksimović
- Producer/s Čarna Vučinić
- Production CompanyNon-Aligned Films (RS), Volta Producción (ES), Staragara (SI), Antitalent (HR)
- Distributor/s Lights On
- Project TitleUpon Sunrise
- Project TypeFiction
- Completion Date1 January 2025
- Country of originCroatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain
- Country of filmingCroatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain
- LanguageSerbian
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Stefan Ivančić
Stefan Ivančić is a film director, producer and programmer born in 1985 in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia. He graduated Film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade. His short films have been selected in many international festivals such Cannes, Rotterdam, FID Marseille, San Sebastian, Visions du Réel and Torino, among others. Stefan is the producer of the feature film The Load (2018) by Ognjen Glavonić, premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, and Wind, Talk to Me (2025) by Stefan Djordjević, premiered in the Tiger Competition of the IFF Rotterdam, as well as a co-producer of You Have the Night (2018) and Wondrous is the Silence of My Master (2025) by Ivan Salatić, and Have You Seen This Woman? (2022) by Dušan Zorić and Matija Gluščević. He is a member of the selection committee of the Locarno Film Festival and is also a programmer at the Belgrade Auteur Film Festival. He teaches at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He is a member of the European Film Academy.
