The Erl-King

The Erl-King (Bauk, 2024) is a Serbian-Bulgarian drama by Goran Radovanović that you can watch online on iFILM — childhood lived through a season of falling bombs.

Sava shares a Belgrade high-rise with his mother and little brother until the spring of 1999, when air-raid sirens and NATO jets tear the ordinary days apart. A basement shelter turns into home, and Milica — the priest's daughter he's quietly in love with — leaves the country for good. Radovanović holds the camera at a teenager's eye level: no battlefields, just dread settling into routine. Hushed and bitter, it's one for admirers of Balkan arthouse cinema. Stream The Erl-King (2024) online on iFILM.