Promised Spaces
Ivan Marković
2026
France, Germany, Cambodia, Serbia
79’
Sokun leaves his crowded construction dormitory and joins a community of fellow workers living in one of many unfinished high-rises. One such tower becomes the long-awaited luxury home for its first tenant, who soon feels trapped in the vast gated complex. Marković pays attention to the links between architecture, urban space, the experience of modernity, and our sense of identity and belonging. Each composition reveals the multi-scale transformation of this landscape—from the characters’ inner feelings and thoughts, to the social construction of hierarchies, to a sense of collective destiny.