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Boris Hadžija

Boris Hadžija

Directing

Biography

Boris Hadžija is a Serbian/Montenegrin filmmaker and pianist based in Berlin. After his master studies in classical piano at the FMU in Belgrade, he studied film directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). His work includes short films, Mother is a Natural Sinner (2024, Locarno Film Festival), Yugotransport (2023, IFFR), as well as his debut feature, I Plant my Hand in the Garden (2026, Venice Film Festival / Giornate degli Autori).

Known For

I Plant My Hand in the Garden

Hoda, an Iranian refugee living in Berlin, is pregnant and in love with Boris, a queer gay man from Serbia. Together, they decide to marry and raise the child, imagining a future built on their own terms. As they prepare for the wedding and enter more deeply into each other’s worlds, their relationship is seriously tested by all the red tape and their families’ expectations and histories that neither of them can leave behind. Surrounded by relatives, memories and inherited ideas of love and parenthood, Hoda and Boris begin to question the roles they are about to take on. What starts as a plan to become a family gradually turns into a more intimate and uncertain question: can they reinvent what it means to be a couple without losing what brought them together?

I Plant My Hand in the Garden

2026Movie