Serbian filmmaker Jelena Maksimović's debut feature, "Until the Day Ends" (Do Kraja Dana), will premiere in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival on 10 September, making her the first female Serbian director to bring a narrative feature to the festival's official selection since 1966. The film is a protest drama and love story set against the backdrop of Belgrade's anti-government student demonstrations, which erupted following the collapse of a railway station canopy in November 2024 that killed 16 people and triggered Serbia's largest wave of civil unrest in decades.

The story follows Lena, an anarchist student played by Lena Trifunović, and Stefan, a working-class youth with pro-government loyalist friends played by Andrija Krivokapić, who fall for each other despite being on opposing sides of a divided society. After a thrown stone hits a policeman and Stefan fears he is to blame, the pair flee Belgrade together, giving the film a road-movie element. The cast also includes Irina Hotomski, Stefan Tarabić and Miodrag Dragičević, with the screenplay co-written by Maksimović, Olga Dimitrijevic and Ivan Salatic; Heretic is handling sales, and The Hollywood Reporter is exclusively premiering a clip ahead of the Venice debut.