Dane Komljen
Dane KOMLJEN (1986, Serbia) is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Berlin. His work explores notions of body, space, utopia often through a contemplative and formally precise cinematic language. He first gained international attention with his short I Already Am Everything I Want to Have (2010), which received third prize at the Cinéfondation competition in Cannes Film Festival.Since then, his films have regularly been selected by IFFR, including Bodily Function (2011), Tiny Bird (2013), Our Body (2015, Tiger Awards Short Competition), and All the Cities of the North (2016, Bright Future). His latest feature Desire Lines (2025), supported twice by the Hubert Bals Fund, premiered in the main International Competition at the Locarno Film Festival.
Filmography
(selection) Ja vec jesam sve ono sto zelim da imam/I Already Am Everything I Want to Have (2010, short), Tjelesna funkcija/Bodily Function (2012, short), Sitna ptica/Tiny Bird (2013, short), Višak vjetra/A Surplus of Wind (2014, short), Naše telo/Our Body (2015, short), All Still Orbit (2016, short, co-dir), Svi severni gradovi/All the Cities of the North (2017), Desire Lines (2025)
Dane Komljen op IFFR
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Tiny Bird
Dane Komljen | 30' | Croatia | Dutch Premiere
Filmmaker wishes to give personal meaning to the worn-out terms friendship, brotherhood and manliness. What do you keep to yourself; what do you share -
All the Cities of the North
Dane Komljen | 100' | Bosnia and Herzegovina | None
Highly anticipated first feature of film artist Dane Komljen, about two men who live together harmoniously in an abandoned bungalow park. When a third -
All Still Orbit
Dane Komljen, James Lattimer | 23' | Brazil | World premiere
A breathtaking quest for the dream the imposing city of Brasilia was based on, a marked contrast with the chaos of the adjacent construction workers’ -
Our Body
Dane Komljen | 15' | Germany | World premiere
Modernism’s breath of fresh air is no more than a spirit from the recent past in the declining world of Our Body. Can it be… -
Bodily Function
Dane Komljen | 38' | Bosnia and Herzegovina | International premiere
Naturally shot, slow fiction sticks close to a young man selling his vegetables at the market in the city and contacting a friend from his… -
I Already Am Everything I Want to Have
Dane Komljen | 35' | Serbia | None
Film student Komljen won a prize for exceptional talent at Cinefondation in Cannes for this idiosyncratic work on a seemingly rudderless generation.