Yugo goes to America

Yugo ide u Ameriku

About the film

During one summer, three people born in the 90-ies in Serbia go on a trip to America – driving a “Yugo” from New York to Los Angeles. The film follows their journey through 23 federal states and over 10,000 kilometers traveled, all in order to tell us the story of the export of a small socialist car to the competitive Reagan America in the 80-ies. 33 years after the last “Yugo” was imported to America, the authors of the film go on the adventure of a lifetime, fulfilling the last “bucket list” of the “Yugo”.

Directors: Filip Grujić, Aleksa Borković
Scriptwriter: Filip Grujić
DOP: Aleksa Borković
Editor: Kristina Todorović
Sound recordists: Aleksandar Blažić, Ivana Finci
Sound designer: Tihomir Vrbanec
Foley artist: Dino Divković
Sound mix: Tihomir Vrbanec, Ivan Zelić
Color correction: Tomislav Stojanović, Eclectica
VFX: Sandrino Požežanac
Graphic designer and credit design: Goran Pavasović
Animations: Dragan Đokić Đole

producer: Čarna Vučinić (Naked)
co-producer: Vanja Jambrović (Restart)
associate producer: Oliver Sertić

production: Naked (RS)
co-production: Restart (HR), United Media (RS)

photographs by: Aleksa Borković 
languages: serbian, english

CPH:DOX 2026, Copenhagen, Denmark – world premiere – program “Special Premiers”

FILM CENTER SERBIA – production support
CROATIAN AUDIOVISUAL CENTRE – minority co-production
United Media – co-production
Eurimages – co-production support

Filip Grujić is a writer and playwright, assistant at the Department of theater dramaturgy at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He is the author of the following novels: “Podstanar” (Lom, 2020, three editions) – nominated for the European Prize for Literature; shortlist for NIN’s award; translated into bulgarian and macedonian, “Bludni dani kuratog Džonija” (Samizdat, 2017, two editions), there was a theatre play based on this novel directed by Jovana Tomić (Ujvideki Szinhaz Theater), “I onda opet, iz početka” (Booka, 2023) – shortlisted for NIN’s award. Filip’s novels have been translated into macedonian, bulgarian and english.

Aleksa Borković is a director of photography and a director who works in music videos, feature films and documentaries. He is an alumnus of the Sarajevo Talent campus (2021) at the camera department. He studied Digital Arts at the Faculty of Media and Communications, where he currently works as a student demonstrator. He directed the short feature film “Wait for me here”, which had its world premiere at the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival. Aleksa is a co-director and director of photography of the feature documentary “Yugo goes to America” ​.

Yugo goes to America

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