BEST DOKS – Shortlist Student Award
You can watch our most-viewed and award-winning documentaries of the 2024 edition again on Sunday 12 May.
MAÑANA SOL
Germany 2023 – Director: Denis Pavlovic – Original version with English subtitles – Length: 90 min.
Retiring to the Canary Islands is a pensioner’s dream but when Jadranka and Aleksandar Pavlovic arrive there, they separate and live from then on on different islands, five and a half hours apart from each other. In magnificent images and playful montage sequences the film sketches a paradise with a peculiar slant. Nothing is as it seems here. An unforgivingly open family portrait. Jan Sebening
Biography
After numerous internships, exhibitions, and travels, Denis Pavlovic focussed on documentary film directing at the Ludwigsburg Film Academy. Together with Julia Meyer-Pavlovic, he founded the production company Glass Frog Films. MAÑANA SOL is his graduation film.
Filmography (selection)
WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE, DE 2025, 90 min. (in Produktion)
MAÑANA SOL, DE 2023, 90 min.
LETTERS OF THE ROAD, KE/DE 2021, 31 min. (Co-Regie: Mark Maina)
Nominated for the Student Award
The Student Award of DOK.fest München presents outstanding documentary films by students of German-speaking film schools. The films are nominated for the megaherz Student Award, worth 3,000 Euros.
No youth rating
Writer: Denis Pavlovic. Camera: Michael Throne. Sound: Max Hartstang, Marieke Czogalla. Editing: Julia Meyer-Pavlovic. Music: Christian Bluthardt. Production: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg / Glass Frog Films. Producer: Denis Pavlovic.