Branislav Jankić

On the eve of her first major Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament, former supermodel Monika "Jac" Jagaciak—once the face of global fashion—reveals her extraordinary transformation as she trades runways for grappling mats, confronting her past and reclaiming her life through the discipline of combat sport.

In the film, a live audience, consisting of different ethnic and religious groups from the Balkans, in which a single narrator recites six stories about six significant historical events impacting the Balkans. Following each story, a real mixed martial arts fight occurs, shot and framed to reveal not only the violence humans are capable of, but also manifesting the poetry of movement, mutual respect and the very tangible intimacy of two human bodies struggling.

A memorial to lost love that is based on the true love story of my mentor Gianpaolo Barbieri and his partner Evar, who died a quarter of a century ago.