Heretic has acquired world rights to Jelena Maksimović’s fiction feature debut “Until the Day Ends,” set against the backdrop of Serbia’s student protests. The film will celebrate its world premiere as part of Venice’s Horizons section in September.

The film follows Lena (Lena Trifunović), an anarchist student active in Belgrade’s anti-government movement, and Stefan (Stefan Tarabić), a working-class youth who finds himself, almost by chance, among pro-government loyalists.

Standing on opposite sides of the protests, the pair fall for each other despite the divide, recognizing in one another a restlessness neither can quite name. When a stone is thrown and a policeman struck, Stefan fears he is to blame, and the two flee together to a remote cabin, far from the turmoil of the city.