Desire Lines
Dane Komljen / Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Netherlands, Croatia & Germany / 2025 / 107 min
An enigmatic and restless queer fable about a sleepless man who follows his brother on a cruise through the dark nights of Belgrade.
Bosnian filmmaker Dane Komljen is in his element in the enigmatic twilight, where the boundary between dreamy, erotic fiction and realism is blurred. This is more true than ever in the critically acclaimed ‘Desire Lines’, where a man follows his adult younger brother through the hot summer nights of Belgrade and discovers a parallel world he did not know.
Branko follows his brother through forests and bushes, down into the underground train station and out into its toilets. Here, men meet in secret to fulfill their own and others’ needs, and perhaps their dreams. But the journey through the night ends in a completely different place than he – and we – could ever have imagined. ‘Desire Lines’ is an enigmatic and atmospheric fable about sexuality, bodies in motion, changeability, and changing form.