Thursday, 10 September 2026 at 7 pm
Yugo ide u Ameriku
Directed by: Filip Grujić & Aleksa Borković
Croatia, Serbia / 2026 / 87 min
Language: Serbian, English
Subtitles: Croatian
During one summer, three people born in the 90-ies in Serbia go on a trip to America – driving a “Yugo” from New York to Los Angeles. The film follows their journey through 23 federal states and over 10,000 kilometers traveled, all in order to tell us the story of the export of a small socialist car to the competitive Reagan America in the 80-ies. 33 years after the last “Yugo” was imported to America, the authors of the film go on the adventure of a lifetime, fulfilling the last “bucket list” of the “Yugo”.
Festivals and awards:
CPH:DOX 2026 (world premiere) / BELDOCS 2026 (regional premiere) – Special Jury Mention, Audience Award for Best European Film
Reviews:
In the end, Yugo Goes to America is not a movie about a car, a company history or even the memories of Yugoslavia that collapsed in a bloody civil war. It is about adventure, dreams, friendship, the melting pot that is the USA and the peculiarities of different cultures coming together in the big, wide world. It is therefore about life itself. – Marko Stojilković, Cineuropa
Ultimately, this film is not just a story about a car that keeps breaking down, but a journalistic and artistic cry for a slower, more humane world where the hood still opens with friends, not algorithms. – Srđan Sandić, Elle.hr