Venice-Bound Documentary ‘Possibility of Paradise’ Picked Up by Taskovski (EXCLUSIVE)

Taskovski Films Sales has picked up Serbian filmmaker Mladen Kovačević‘s documentary “Possibility of Paradise,” which will have its world premiere on Sept. 3 at Venice Days, an independent sidebar to the Venice Film Festival.

The film, shot on Bali, focuses on people searching for a new Eden. “The happiness along with the existential and ethical angst that follow, are at the heart of the film,” according to Venice Days, which describes it as a “bold vision, subtly rendered, of what it means to live in an earthly paradise that doesn’t belong to us, culturally.”

Irena Taskovski, CEO and head of acquisitions at Taskovski Films, said: “Mladen’s unique cinematic voice and the film’s masterful cinematography create a thought-provoking experience that serves as a mirror to many of us.”

The film is produced by Iva Plemić Divjak and Kovačević for Serbia’s Horopter Film Production. It is co-produced by Sweden’s MDEMC Produktion. It was supported by Film Centre Serbia, Serbia’s Ministry of Culture, and the Swedish Film Institute.

Kovačević has previously directed “Unplugged” (2013), which played at Hot Docs and Visions du Réel; “Wall of Death and All That” (2016), which screened at Visions du Réel; “4 Years in 10 Minutes” (2018), which received a special mention from the jury at Visions du Réel; “Merry Christmas, Yiwu” (2020), which premiered at Rotterdam and won best documentary at Sarajevo; and “Another Spring” (2022), which debuted at Karlovy Vary.

He is currently shooting the docu-fiction “Koryo,” and developing the fiction feature “Behind the Curtains, Behind the Trees.”