Imaginarni brojevi

Imaginary Numbers | Imaginäre Zahlen

Generation Kplus 2026

Twelve-year-old Mirna is a maths talent. Together with her father, Milan, she embarks on an early morning bus journey from their village to the city of Niš, where she is going to take part in her first national mathematics competition. The stakes are high: winning an award could help Mirna get into a prestigious school in Belgrade and pave the way to a better future. While Milan, a working-class man, struggles with the unfamiliar environment of academic competition, Mirna strides ahead, focused and self-assured, already stepping into a world that feels slightly beyond him. Although he knows that supporting his daughter may eventually result in her leaving home, and perhaps even her country, Milan chooses to help her, as they share this fleeting moment of closeness before life takes them in different directions.

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by Jelica Jerinić (Director, Screenplay), Aleksandar Marković (Screenplay)
with Goran Bogdan, Maša Radusin, Milica Trifunović, Milica Janevski, Aleksandar Milojević Serbia / Croatia 2026 Serbian 16' Colour World premiere recommendation: 12 years and up

With

Goran Bogdan (Milan)
Maša Radusin (Mirna)
Milica Trifunović (On-Duty Teacher)
Milica Janevski (Slavka Matić)
Aleksandar Milojević (Doorman)

Crew

Director	Jelica Jerinić
Screenplay	Aleksandar Marković, Jelica Jerinić
Cinematography	Tomislav Sutlar
Editing	Nina Velnić
Sound Design	Ivan Zelić
Production Design	Dragana Baćović, Ana Ivanišević
Costumes	Snežana Veljković
Make-Up	Jovana Vukosavljević
Producers	Dragana Antić Gaši, Snežana van Houwelingen
Co-Producer	Tina Tišljar

Produced by

This and That Productions

Belgrad, Serbia

Co-produced by

Eclectica

Zagreb, Croatia

Photos

Jelica Jerinić

The filmmaker was born in Serbia and now lives in Helsinki. She studied dramaturgy at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and is an alumna of several development programmes including the Academy of Moving People and Images, Sarajevo Talents, European Short Pitch, the EFM Fiction Toolbox Programme and TorinoFilmLab. Her short films have won awards at a number of festivals and have been broadcast on Finnish television. She is a co-founder of the Helsinki-based film collective Film Tonight!.

Filmography

2016 Devojčice koje se šišaju na kratko (Girls Who Cut Their Hair Short); short documentary 2020 Koiranpäivä (Dog Day); short film 2023 Sorsapaisti (Duck Roast); short film 2024 Slatka sećanja (Sweet Memories); short film 2026 Imaginarni brojevi (Imaginary Numbers); short film, Berlinale 2026

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2026