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Serbian director Goran Paskaljevic prefaced a screening of Midwinter Night’s Dream by saying that it is “perhaps my only film without humor.” A modest statement, if also accurate considering its dismal subject of post-war, post-Milosevic Serbia, but so much of Paskaljevic’s humor comes from his humanism, something Midwinter Night’s Dream is severely not lacking in. The story begins with Lazar returning to the home of his mother who has died during his absence only to find it occupied by Jasna and her autistic daughter, Jovana. Initially intending to kick the family out, he decides to let them stay on and he becomes a surrogate father figure while re-acclimating himself to his new environment.

Lo scoiattolo Surly viene bandito dal parco e costretto a vivere in città. Fortunatamente si imbatte in qualcosa che potrebbe salvare la sua vita e quella del resto della comunità del parco, che si sta preparando ad affronatre un inverno particolarmente rigido: Maury's Nut Store, un negozio che vende noci di ogni tipo.