Eighty Plus

Directed by Želimir Žilnik
Serbia
2025
118 mins

Synopsis

Past winner of the 1969 Berlinale Golden Bear Želimir Žilnik returns with a very funny and extremely charming film about a musician travelling to Serbia to reclaim a family property.

We meet Stevan in Vienna, hunting down old vinyl records by his jazz band from the ’60s. He’s long lived outside his native Serbia and often travelled across Europe playing with top-rate musicians. When the Serbian government contacts him with the offer of restitution – to return to him a family home confiscated decades earlier – Stevan goes back to his homeland. There he meets relatives, some of whom are rather keen on liberating him of this new property. More happily, he reunites with old musician buddies, including a singer he’d admired from afar. This captivating new entry in a career spanning decades and more than 50 films amply proves that Žilnik, now in his eighties himself, has lost none of his spark.

Limited seats are available for patrons requiring access for wheelchairs, low vision and hearing loop. Please contact our ticketing team directly on 1300 733 733 or tickets@sff.org.au to complete your booking.

Žilnik returns with a gentle, cross-generational story that applies his interest in social injustice in order to pick apart layers of history.
Vladan Petkovic, Cineuropa

Tickets

Thu 5 June 2025, 6:15pm
Palace Norton Street - Cinema 3
WheelchairSubtitledAssisted Listening
Sat 7 June 2025, 3pm
Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5
WheelchairSubtitled
Tue 10 June 2025, 2:15pm
State Theatre
WheelchairSubtitledAssisted Listening
  • Program Strand
  • Original Title
    RESTITUCIJA, ILI, SAN I JAVA STARE GARDE
  • Year
    2025
  • Classification
    Unclassified 15+
  • Country
    Serbia, Slovenia
  • Language
    In Serbian and German with English subtitles
  • Director
    Želimir Žilnik
  • Producer
    Sarita Matijević Žilnik
  • Cast
    Milan Kovačević, Milivoj Kiždobranski, Vera Hrćan Ostojić
  • Screenwriter
    Želimir Žilnik, Tanja Šljivar
  • Cinematographer
    Jovan Milinov
  • Editor
    Vuk Vukmirović
  • Genre
  • Premiere
    Australian Premiere
  • Company Credits
    World Sales: EXPOBLVD
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