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In CLIP, Jasna, a teenage Serbian girl grapples with random sexual encounters and nothing to grasp onto in the way of a future. With her father plagued by illness, Jasna is left with little more with which to navigate her world than her camera phone, and a strong desire to capture clips of her life speeding by. Writer director Maja Miloš makes her directorial debut in this searing portrait of modern Serbia. With her young and fearless cast, Miloš crafts an uncensored, ferociously honest portrait of modern youth. As Jasna rushes to leave her adolescence behind, she takes on a life of aimless wandering that appears lonely and precarious, but somehow she maintains control of this wild ride. This stunning first film won the Grand Jury Prize when it premiered at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam earlier this year. A close collaboration between Miloš and her precocious ingénue, Isadora Simijonovic, CLIP is a raw look at the perilous world of a rootless teenager.