Wind, Talk to Me

Dealing with his mother’s recent passing, a Serbian filmmaker turns the camera on his own family in this touching meditation on grief, healing, and spirituality. Winner of the Heart of Sarajevo at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival. 

What began as a documentary about Negrica, the director’s mother, evolved into an intimate docu-fiction portrait of a family grappling with remembrance and loss. Returning home to mark his grandmother’s birthday, Đorđević reconnects with the familiar rhythms of his childhood and struggles with his inability to fully embrace the spirituality his mother embodied. The film balances loss with subtle, self-reflective humour, capturing the tender presence of his mother while expanding into a broader meditation on love, connection, and the passage of time. Through delicate camera work and a restrained yet rich cinematic language, Đorđević traces a quiet journey of mourning and resilience, observing the ties that bind people to one another and to the world around them.

Programme section: Cinema Current / Focus: Grief
Original title: Vetre, pričaj sa mnom | Year: 2025 | Duration: 100′
Country: Serbia, USA | Language: Serbian | Subtitles: English
Director: Stefan Đorđević | Production: Dragana Jovović, Stefan Ivančić, Ognjen Glavonić – Non-Aligned Films; Stefan Đorđević – Katunga; Spok Film, Restart, Staragara | Cast: Negrica, Stefan & Boško Đorđević, Đorđe Davidović, Budimir Jovanović | Screenplay: Stefan Đorđević | Cinematography: Marko Brdar | Editing: Tomislav Stojanović, Dragan von Petrović

FESTIVALS & AWARDS (SELECTION) 

Locarno Film Festival, 2024 – World Premiere, Special Mention | Thessaloniki Film Festival, 2024 | Mostra de València, 2024 – Best Original Score | FilmFestival Cottbus, 2024 – Best Film Award, FIPRESCI Award | Festival de cinéma En ville!, 2025 – Special Mention | ​Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz, 2025 – MIOB New Vision Award | Beldocs, 2025 – ​Special Mention | CPH:DOX, 2025 | Al Este Peru, 2025 ​– Special Mention

DIRECTOR’S BIO 

Stefan Đorđević (1987, Bor, Serbia) was introduced to film through Nikola Lezaić’s debut “Tilva Rosh” (Locarno, 2010) in which he played one of the leading roles. The film was nominated for the 2011 European Film Awards in the European Discovery – Prix Fipresci section for the best first feature film. He completed his MA at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Camera department. His graduation film “A Handful of Stones” (2017) had its international premiere at the ACID programme of the Cannes Film Festival. His short film “The Last Image of Father” (2019) premiered at Locarno, where it won the Young Jury Award and later won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Film. His latest short documentary “Portrait of a Dying Giant” (2023) was part of the Serbian pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. Docu-drama “Wind, Talk to Me” (2025) is his feature debut as a director and screenwriter.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

I didn’t want the film to be about the past and present. I didn’t want to use the material as an archive because I felt it held a beauty far beyond merely recounting what had happened before or what was happening then. My mother’s way of speaking about life and her connection with nature was deeply poetic, and I wanted to capture that poetry in the film. I sought to find emotional connections between the so-called fiction parts and the documentary segments. Even calling it “fiction” feels odd because everything depicted was real. Yes, I constructed a structure for the film, but it wasn’t fiction—it was a carefully crafted narrative rooted in genuine memories collected from my family.