Over the course of one summer, three people born in Serbia in the 1990s travel to America – to take a road trip in their “Yugo” from New York to Los Angeles. The film follows their journey through 23 federal states and across 10,000 kilometres, telling us the story of the small socialist car that was exported to Reagan’s competitive America in the 1980s. Thirty-three years after the last “Yugo” was imported to America, the authors of the film go on the adventure of a lifetime, fulfilling the last bucket list of the “Yugo”.

Yugo Goes to America was directed by Filip Grujić, who also penned the screenplay, and Aleksa Borković, who is also the director of photography on the project. The film was edited by Kristina Todorović, alongside production sound mixers Aleksandar Blažič and Ivana Finci.

Yugo’s producer is Čarna Vučinić for Naked from Serbia, with co-producer Vanja Jambrović for Restart from Croatia. The co-producers are also Filip Grujić, the Šolak family, and United Media (RS), and associate producer Oliver Sertić.

Yugo Goes to America will have its world premiere at CPH:DOX on 18 March, as part of the Special Premieres section, which offers the audience exclusive premieres of films from around the world that are screening at the festival out of competition.

The documentary was made with the support of the Eurimages fund, Film Center Serbia, Croatian Audiovisual Centre, and United Media Group.

The CPH:DOX International Documentary Film Festival will take place from 11 to 22 March in Copenhagen, Denmark, and will present 74 feature films in competition, of which 53 will be world premieres, 17 international, and two European premieres. The festival is part of the DOC Alliance – a partnership between seven European documentary film festivals, aimed of strengthening independent and creative documentary filmmaking in Europe.