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HOW COME IT'S ALL GREEN OUT HERE? Serbia-Croatia-Bulgaria, 2025, 114 min, color

Nikola, a film director stuck in advertising, buys an old van to convert into a camper, dreaming of family road trips with his wife and soon-to-be-born daughter. When he learns that his late refugee grandmother's remains may be returned to her home village in Dalmatia, he embarks on this journey joined by his father, Mirko, visiting the house he hasn't seen in 25 years, while gaining unexpected insights into parenting, family, the passage of time, and the blurry nature of memory.

Nikola Lezaic

Nikola Lezaic

Nikola Ležaić (1981) is a film screenwriter, director and producer. He graduated in film directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. His directorial debut Tilva Rosh (2010) is one of the most highly regarded Serbian films of recent years.It premiered in Sarajevo, where it won the Heart of Sarajevo, and had its international premiere in Locarno. In 2014, he produced the film Disobedient, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. How Come It Is So Green Out Here? is his second feature film.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

2007 Boxer Goes to Heaven – short

2010 Tilva Rosh

2014 The Devil's Toy: Bor –  short

2025 How Come It Is So Green Out Here?

DIRECTOR
Nikola Lezaic
SCRIPT
Nikola Lezaic
CAMERA
Aleksandar Pavlović
CAST
Filip Đurić, Izudin Bajrović, Stojan Matavulj, Snježana Sinovčić Šiškov, Leon Lučev
PRODUCERS
PRODUCER Nikola Lezaic; CO-PRODUCERS Nikolay Mutafchiev, Goran Todoric
PRODUCTION
Qče, Nukleus Film, PREMIERstudio, Forgrade

HOW COME IT'S ALL GREEN OUT HERE? Serbia-Croatia-Bulgaria, 2025, 114 min, color

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