Sophie Vuković

Sophie Vuković https://sophievukovic.com Sophie Vuković Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:01:15 +0000 https://sophievukovic.com en Dumpad http://sophievukovic.com/Dumpad Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:01:15 +0000 Sophie Vuković 457365 Dumpad2022 | 6 x 22 min| drama comedy series SynopsisZarah lives a great life on social media, but in reality, she struggles with mental illness. When her boyfriend of several years breaks up, everything turns upside down. Production facts:Year of production: 2012Format: HD/16:9Running time: 6 x 22 minutesLanguage: SwedishDirector: Sophie Vuković Scriptwriter: Ebba StymneProducers: Jeannette Frykberg/Warner Bros SwedenCinematography: Josua Enblom With:Didi Cederström Nora Rios Daniela Sörensen Carlos Romero Cruz Produced by Warner Bros Sweden for Discovery+ / HBO Max.  Film stills Photo credit: Josua Enblom <img width="3353" height="1893" width_o="3353" height_o="1893" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d6342c4f6189c726cad5847bba21b2e54d42e7ee89e41b717083192949dd9b3f/Screenshot-2023-11-13-at-07.29.23.png" data-mid="1413269" border="0" /><img width="3354" height="1892" width_o="3354" height_o="1892" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/b99b23b07eb18abf279b31f648d8d8e8f19e2aac6106a06c510b83a500d71798/Screenshot-2023-11-13-at-07.30.20.png" data-mid="1413267" border="0" /><img width="3352" height="1893" width_o="3352" height_o="1893" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/37a9b5a464348f1e5db88f83d853c3c98d74691aaf901dca94912edbd763c6d2/Screenshot-2023-11-13-at-07.29.38.png" data-mid="1413268" border="0" /> < back Dumpad2022 | 6 x 22 min| drama comedy series SynopsisZarah lives a great life on social media, but in reality, she struggles with mental illness. When her... My Best Friend's Baby http://sophievukovic.com/My-Best-Friend-s-Baby Sat, 25 Mar 2023 08:39:56 +0000 Sophie Vuković 440368 My Best Friend’s BabyIn development | fiction feature  After Damir donates his sperm for Sara’s solo parenting journey, the queer best friends travel to his cousin’s wedding in Croatia masquerading as a couple, where the strain of their secret arrangement challenges their friendship and forces them to reassess their own notions on family. Written and directed by Sophie VukovićProduced by Eliza Jones and Markus Waltå | Grand Slam Film Danijel Pek, Maja Pek-Brünjes & Katarina Prpic |Antitalent Funded by the Swedish Film Institute, SVT, The Swedish Arts & Grants Committee, Film Stockholm, HAVC Croatian Audiovisual Fund, YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company, Anders Sandrews Stiftelse. Selected for Midpoint Feature Launch 2022Winner of KVIFF & Midpoint  Development Award | Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2022Interview in Variety. <img width="1818" height="1228" width_o="1818" height_o="1228" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/71e5e07d1ee7b9fa6801ea287a816b15b99e020fa94e94090db21ec8445635a4/My-Best-Friend-s-Baby-Mood-image-KVIFF.JPG" data-mid="1275187" border="0" /> < back My Best Friend’s BabyIn development | fiction feature  After Damir donates his sperm for Sara’s solo parenting journey, the queer best friends... Untitled Abisko http://sophievukovic.com/Untitled-Abisko Tue, 24 Aug 2021 10:06:37 +0000 Sophie Vuković 410635 Untitled Abisko2020 | 19 min | hybrid, experimental A photographer and her lover travel to Abisko in the north of Sweden in the summer of 2020 to document the effects of the rising temperatures on the mountain landscape. Many years later, both the landscape and their love is long gone, and the world as they knew it lies under water after a natural disaster. From an underwater shelter where she lives with other survivors, the lover lives suspended in an image-world of memories from that summer. She remembers her photographer, and their own personal disaster that ended their love affair. Selected exhibitions & screenings International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2020 - International Competition Färgfabriken 2020 - Lyssna, group exhibition Skellefteå Konsthall 2021 - Lyssna, group exhibition Virserums Konsthall 2021 - Lyssna, group exhibition Untitled Abisko is a climate-fiction that weaves together a queer love story with the processes of mourning a landscape altered by climate change. In the unique mountain landscape of Abisko, the consequences of global warming are more visible than in other places. While the planet’s average temperature has risen by one degree in the past century, Abisko has risen by two degrees. How do we comprehend these changes and the losses that come with them? The striking landscape and the dreamlike, poetic images shot on 16 mm film stand in stark contrast to the dystopian narrative in a cinematic message from one of our possible futures. Film stills Photo credit: Milja Rossi <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/b623deec171270dec6dd20dd4fad341e11cec4758e0404e10f9fd29c75df93f6/Untitled-Abisko-foto-cred-Milja-Rossi.jpg" data-mid="1116645" border="0" data-scale="79"/><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/6a42ded04951ea6370761b4a67e15610fc571159c13e3d60b88a7729131eb10d/Untitled-Abisko-photocred-Milja-Rossi-3.jpg" data-mid="1116647" border="0" data-scale="79"/><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/fd929092d4feb4b55ed0f1fb1ecc7342cb5f185db2e1c89aeea8ee62bc565444/Untitled-Abisko-photocred-Milja-Rossi-2.jpg" data-mid="1116646" border="0" data-scale="79"/> Written, directed & edited by Sophie Vuković With: Keith Larson, Rajla Rossi, Julian Österberg, Susanna ÖsterbergDoP: Milja RossiSound Design: Theodora Flygt Commissioned by Färgfabriken with support from Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse < back Untitled Abisko2020 | 19 min | hybrid, experimental A photographer and her lover travel to Abisko in the north of Sweden in the summer of 2020 to document the... Repeated over time and with force http://sophievukovic.com/Repeated-over-time-and-with-force Fri, 05 Jul 2019 10:46:51 +0000 Sophie Vuković 329936 Repeated over time and with force 2019 | light installation with readymades | steel dish drying racks, lights Installation with readymades (steel dish drying racks) and light. This work examines notions of care and the kinds of control and micro-violence that can be embedded within care taking - both in intimate relationships and family structures and on a collective level with regards to belonging to an other kinds of “homes” such as a society or nation state.  This work looks at how reproductive labour and care, within these structures, can become contested actions that both nurture as well as discipline, and have the potential to uphold and reiterate patriarchal structures. At the same time, it seeks to create a space in which these gestures can become something else and gain their own independent autonomy and produce something other from within the same structures. The title, Repeated over time and with force, is a phrase taken from Sara Ahmed’s book Queer Phenomenology, and refers to a discussion on how hegemonic structures such as heteronormativity and patriarchy become norms - in the form of behaviours, beliefs and affects that are repeated over time and with force until they become part of the background noise of everyday life. The light is programmed to sweep over the installation, after which point it turns itself off and spins back to the starting point and begins again. A cycle, a repetition, that is predetermined and independent of the viewer, but is also in dialogue with the viewer’s movement in the room. Shown as part of Royal Institute of Art MA graduation show. Awarded the Bonniers stipendium grant. Installation stills Photo credit: Jean-Baptiste Béranger <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a58beef83f23deeb506e941129850190037db747356c807361eb3ea8ce79fbd5/_DSF9840.jpg" data-mid="739150" border="0" data-scale="64"/><img width="3000" height="4000" width_o="3000" height_o="4000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d1b3ae150c09cb72e977c05db6b732154792c75b53cf7d2fb6279c45d49e0480/_DSF9881.jpg" data-mid="739147" border="0" data-scale="64"/><img width="3000" height="4000" width_o="3000" height_o="4000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/40e7c7601b966d20efe4de72c7734d001bf5e874976fa130ce40d6560630e66a/_DSF9865.jpg" data-mid="739151" border="0" data-scale="64"/><img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/213444c8e57edcead54d073aac2289079b4b8207585450fd7b7853c010d31350/_DSF5376.jpg" data-mid="739161" border="0" data-scale="64"/><img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/894bb1bdbb30fa180655c960512b1f941c2862c81c0013df664243b6724b59fd/_DSF5343.jpg" data-mid="739156" border="0" data-scale="64"/><img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/54068819a56547948ad858918cd99681ec68beef9b89d90f4ee0690fe076d2e6/_DSF5323.jpg" data-mid="739153" border="0" data-scale="64"/><img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/84349252e17d330cf9d4030d96a885179861406b856aa752914e17e23fabba50/_DSF5327.jpg" data-mid="739154" border="0" data-scale="64"/> < back Repeated over time and with force 2019 | light installation with readymades | steel dish drying racks, lights Installation with readymades (steel dish... Traces http://sophievukovic.com/Traces Thu, 04 Jul 2019 15:34:12 +0000 Sophie Vuković 329903 Traces 2018 | installation | plaster, text Traces is a fictional archive - a collection of intimate archival objects presented at Örebro Läns Musuem as artefacts from an imagined history.  How does an object make its way into an archive? What narratives are recorded, preserved and remembered? These works suggest an imagined archive that speaks to the blind spots in the archive-making processes of nation-building institutions such as the museum. They adress historical narratives that could have taken place - as well as an archival practice that may one day exist. The fictional archival objects speak of narratives that have often not been documented and become invisible in the creation of hegemonic historical narratives - LGBTQI history, histories of migration and displaced people. Engaging with history in a reparative way, these works use fiction to create collective histories that re-imagine and fill the gaps of dominant modes of history making. Installation with plaster sculptures and text. Part of the group exhibition Ingen Äger Tiden at Örebro Läns Musuem, in which a group of artists from the Royal Institute of Art were given access to the municipality archive in Örebro and invited to create works in dialogue with the archive, the local area and its history. Under artistic supervision of artist Lina Selander and in dialogue with curator Daniel Urey. Exhibition catalogue text Detail Näsduk, rosa linne Detail Ask, målat trä med insida klädd i röd sammetDetail Snäcka, vit skruvformad <img width="2208" height="1458" width_o="2208" height_o="1458" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9e0e96d742025b1ed7d0252e27cb937c74e616c957224efee3617dbb130d0e2c/Ask--vit.jpg" data-mid="739130" border="0" data-scale="75"/><img width="1750" height="1312" width_o="1750" height_o="1312" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/22861b95d919370644c137425713b72a78842b71000c4126cedf057cf65935ea/TRACES--installation.jpg" data-mid="739127" border="0" data-scale="75"/><img width="4830" height="3199" width_o="4830" height_o="3199" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a12568594b50b69f0013d15988340569f04518f9eecb53cc630452a8621391a4/DSC_0667.JPG" data-mid="739145" border="0" data-scale="75"/><img width="1989" height="1174" width_o="1989" height_o="1174" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/cadf055733bed0faea88c7f4402739e43bf00794dc08992f7e37836a3079f724/TRACES--installation2.jpg" data-mid="739143" border="0" data-scale="75"/> < back Traces 2018 | installation | plaster, text Traces is a fictional archive - a collection of intimate archival objects presented at Örebro Läns Musuem as... 09:55-11:05, Ingrid Ekman, Bergsgatan 4B http://sophievukovic.com/09-55-11-05-Ingrid-Ekman-Bergsgatan-4B Thu, 04 Jul 2019 15:10:05 +0000 Sophie Vuković 329898 09:55-11:05, Ingrid Ekman, Bergsgatan 4B 2015 | 15 min | fiction Synopsis67 year old Ingrid has decided to deal with cancer on her own. She retreats from the outside world and it retreats from her - apart from sporadic visits from the home care services. But when home care employee Frida knocks on her door it awakens feelings that Ingrid can't shut out. Written & directed by Sophie Vuković & Cristine BerglundProducer: Jessica Liander | Tika Film Cast: Lisbeth Zachrisson & Cristine BerglundDoP & Colorist : Josua EnblomEditor: Sophie VukovicSound Design: Niklas AldénSet Design:  Hanna Pauser & Ruben WidénCostume Design: Anna Lindqvist Film stills Photo credit: Josua Enblom<img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a095831783bbaa7649ffc2017899366c2a8e87504c688f7bb7c70337dc21c127/INGRID_STILLS_SPEGLING_70.jpg" data-mid="738839" border="0" data-scale="75"/><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f5b8c1a781c2a9e2a4bdea5f04958536f921d0e2658e158f170b2926f51d9367/INGRID_STILL_BATH_70.jpg" data-mid="738840" border="0" data-scale="75"/> Selected festivals & awards Slamdance Film Festival | Jury Honorable Mention Narrative Short SXSW Short Film Competition Mix Copenhagen LGBT Film Festival | Lili Award Best Short FilmSide by Side LGBT Film Festival St. Petersburg | Best Short Film Outfest LA Mezipatra Queer Film Festival Prague| Best Short Film Stockholms Filmfestival | Nominated 1km filmNominated for the Iris Prize 19th Queer Lisboa International Queer Film Festival Pink Life QueerFest Turkey | Best Short Film Award Vox Feminae Zagreb Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival | Best Narrative Short Nordic Panorama | Best Nordic Short CompetitionFilmOut San Diego 2015 | Best Female Short Film  NY PRIDE Art & Film Festival | Best Short Film Image+Nation Montreal LGBT Film Festival | Best Short Film Merlinka Festival International | Best Short Film MIX Milano Festival | Best Short Film Girona Film Festival | Best Performance AwardKyiv International Short Film FestivalSeattle International Film FestivalChicago Critics Film Festival Motovun Film Festival Love & Anarchy Helsinki Intl Film Festival Oslo Fusion International Film Festival Milano Film FestivalRoze Filmdagen Amsterdam LGBTQ Film FestivalPink Apple Lesbian Gay Filmfestival ZurichLago Film Festival MICGénero Mexico City Cinema distribution in Sweden | Kortfilm c/o Folkets Bio < back 09:55-11:05, Ingrid Ekman, Bergsgatan 4B 2015 | 15 min | fiction Synopsis67 year old Ingrid has decided to deal with cancer on her own. She retreats from the... LITTLE GIRL http://sophievukovic.com/LITTLE-GIRL Thu, 04 Jul 2019 14:47:19 +0000 Sophie Vuković 329892 LITTLE GIRL 2018 | 3 min | Music video for GNUČČI  Director: Sophie Vuković D.O.P: Milja Rossi Assistant Camera + Coloring: Simona Molina Bravo Editor + Graphic: Roxy Farhat FAD: Jonna Dreiman Prod Assistants: Julian Vogel and Kristin Möller Make-up & Hair: Maggie Gelush Styling and emotional support: Linn Marcusson Executive Produced and Catering: Ana RabFeaturing Solna Shotokan Karate Klubb: Teodora Kraljevic, Isidora Iris Lizdek, Lidija Mijanovic, Maja Radojcic, Natalia Maksimovic, Natasa Bojic and Sara Kojic. < back LITTLE GIRL 2018 | 3 min | Music video for GNUČČI  Director: Sophie Vuković D.O.P: Milja Rossi Assistant Camera + Coloring: Simona Molina Bravo Editor +... Contact http://sophievukovic.com/Contact Thu, 04 Jul 2019 14:29:47 +0000 Sophie Vuković 329889 Contact info@sophievukovic.com < back Contact info@sophievukovic.com < back Shapeshifters http://sophievukovic.com/Shapeshifters Thu, 04 Jul 2019 13:39:23 +0000 Sophie Vuković 329881 Shapeshifters 2017 | 75 min | hybrid feature documentary SynopsisWhen filmmaker Sophie Vuković has a chance encounter with an old friend at a demonstration, it provokes a wistful but self-assured exploration of her personal and global identity. Tracing her ancestry through her parents’ migration from former Yugoslavia to Northern Europe via Australia, we are brought into the home and world of a family both moving and tethered. Through a diverse mix of film styles, blending documentary with the fiction of memories and dreams, the director combines the personal and the political through a gentle first-person narration. Relating the experience of globalised and marginalised identities the world over, Shapeshifters beautifully portrays the yearning for a fixed and stable identity, while wholeheartedly embracing the internationalist spirit that transcends the borders implicit in such an identity. Always on the cusp of two or more cultures, Vuković examines the lasting effects of one generation’s choice to migrate on the next. Selected festivals & awards CPH:DOX | Nordic:DOX competition Göteborg Film Festival | Dragon Award Best Documentary Competition Tempo Documentary Festival | Documentary Award Competition Dokufest Kosovo ZagrebDox | International Competition) Nordic Panorama | Best New Nordic Voice Competition Beat Film Festival Moscow Nominated for Nöjesguidens Stockholmspriset Chronic Youth UK Shapeshifters has been screened at the Barbican Centre in London, and was included as part of Modernautställningen 2018, Moderna Museets survey of the Swedish contemporary art scene. Theatrical distribution in Sweden, Folkets Bio Television broadcast | SVT2, URplay Selected pressDagens Nyheter (Swedish) Modern Times Review (English) Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish) Göteborgsposten (Swedish) Bon (Swedish) POV Filmdagbok (Swedish) Facebook Stream Shapeshifters Vimeo on demand | 75 min, english subs UR Play | 58 min, Sweden only, swedish subs Production facts: Year of production: 2017Format: HD/16:9Running time: 75 minutes (58 min TV version)Language: Swedish, English, Serbo-Croatian (English subtitles)Director: Sophie VukovićProducers: Tobias Janson & Göran Hugo OlssonCinematography: Iga Mikler & Sophie VukovićEditing: Britta Norell, Sophie Vuković & Hannah Reinikainen BergenmanMusic: Ana "Gnučči" Rab & Erin "Nire" CooneyColorist: Nanna DalundeSound editing & mix: Mario AdamsonGraphic Design: Bastion - Studio Agency Lab With:Marija Knežević VukovićRatko VukovićMilena DawitFatima FinedVanessa GashiHoodo Mohamud HarbiNergz Mohedin JarwalliTeodora KraljevićVendela Noyan Produced by Story AB With support from The Swedish Film Institute/Antonio Russo MerendaThe Swedish Arts Grants CommitteeDR-K/Fleming HedegaardUR/Susanne FolkessonFilm Stockholm/Filmbasen Anne-Marie Söhrman Fermelin Co-production: Monica Hellström/Final Cut For Real Film stills Photo credit: Iga Mikler, Ratko Vuković <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/53c45d43389e1e9b9ef98cfa7556aee8d06a3d2d0b0f1eb894a2bcb64e7d2b37/Shapeshifters_2.jpg" data-mid="738788" border="0" data-scale="75"/><img width="8000" height="4500" width_o="8000" height_o="4500" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/e136b89ea0790e0f8da47ce549a65074fcb37ef966f2374c927bb84c88d1aa1d/SHAPESHIFTERS_3-foto-Iga-Mikler.jpg" data-mid="738789" border="0" data-scale="75"/><img width="2608" height="1470" width_o="2608" height_o="1470" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/13a59c4dd0288f5ed7db577f62553789cbc0b452bf4f30801bcb610829bfa32d/Screenshot-2019-07-04-at-16.09.06.png" data-mid="738792" border="0" data-scale="75"/> < back Shapeshifters 2017 | 75 min | hybrid feature documentary SynopsisWhen filmmaker Sophie Vuković has a chance encounter with an old friend at a demonstration, it... JAMILA http://sophievukovic.com/JAMILA Thu, 04 Jul 2019 12:59:48 +0000 Sophie Vuković 329875 Jamila 2019 | 14 min | fiction Synopsis Jamila is finally going to be in the school’s talent show with Maryam and her cool friends. Nothing, not even her little sister Leila's questions about the family's asylum application, can distract her. But when two police officers turn up at school, anxiety starts taking over. Written and directed by Sophie Vuković Producers: Eliza Jones & Markus Waltå | Grand Slam Film Cast: Hanna Rizgar, Venezia Taher, Jenna Chaaraoui, Sandy Kellan, Melek Farhat DoP: Karin StenwallEditor: Anton Hemgren, SFKProduction Design: Clara Isaksson, Cecilia HägglundCostume Design: Anna Sheild Casting: Mikaela Knapp, Sophie Vuković Assistant director: SaraKlara Hellström Sound design: Jonathan Dakers Colorist: Max Strömberg | Swiss Post Film stills Photo credit: Grand Slam Film, Karin Stenwall <img width="5616" height="2686" width_o="5616" height_o="2686" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/588701c3ae41231bd2fc9e5fd3dde8e864d22a2346d2798bdb9c31ca4933b35c/Jamila-skolkorridor-cropped.jpg" data-mid="738755" border="0" data-scale="75"/><img width="2880" height="1205" width_o="2880" height_o="1205" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9f3c49c685a5e156d29c35ebbe6500425b19bb177268de6118140ab435004f4e/Screenshot-2019-02-19-at-20.01.26-copy.png" data-mid="738760" border="0" data-scale="75"/><img width="2048" height="1152" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/8d680a155d42b4b38b9a865822ecc87645fb94e985a0e1ed9d6a95efb0b87673/A011C019_181030_R6OZ.mov.13_39_43_16.Still001.jpg" data-mid="738758" border="0" data-scale="75"/> Selected festivals & awardsGöteborg Film Festival | nominated Best Swedish ShortHonorable Mention Best Swedish Short | Uppsala International Short Film FestivalInternational Short Film Festival Oberhausen | Children’s CompetitionGiffoni International Film Festival | Children’s Film Competition Best Short Film Award | Verin Film Festival BUFF Malmö | Film Region Skåne Short Film Award Bergmanveckan Fårö Nordisk Panorama Young Nordic Award Competition IndieCork Film Festival Nordische Filmtage Lübeck Stockholms Film Festival | nominated 1km film prizeMinimalen Short Film Festival  Cinema distribution | Kortfilm c/o Folkets Bio International festival distribution | The Swedish Film Institute Institutional Distribution| FilmCentrum < back Jamila 2019 | 14 min | fiction Synopsis Jamila is finally going to be in the school’s talent show with Maryam and her cool friends. Nothing, not even her...