In Pavle Vučković’s Frost, a rational and emotionally guarded police detective arrives in an isolated Serbian village to investigate the disappearance of a young woman. The region is steeped in pagan traditions, black magic and whispered stories that seem to cling to the landscape. At first, the case appears to demand evidence, witnesses and facts — but the deeper she goes, the more fragile those certainties become.

Her investigation moves through a community where myth is not decoration, but a living force: a way of understanding desire, fear, shame and transgression. At the centre of the disappearance lies an intimate and forbidden bond, rooted in local belief and impossible to explain through logic alone.

Mysterious, sensual and slow-burning, Frost begins as a police thriller before opening into something stranger, darker and more mythic. It is a folk fantasy thriller about the limits of reason, the pull of forbidden desire and the stories we choose to believe when facts are no longer enough.

Pavle Vučković is a Serbian filmmaker born in Belgrade in 1982. He studied film and television directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.

His short films Run Rabbit Run (2003) and Minus (2007) were both awarded in the Cinéfondation competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Run Rabbit Run went on to screen internationally at festivals including Busan, Cottbus, Mar del Plata and Milan, and is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It has also been presented at Centre Pompidou in Paris and Tate Modern in London.

Vučković made his feature debut with Panama, which premiered in the Official Selection at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and was subsequently distributed internationally. Alongside his film work, he has directed music videos, commercials and television.