'Oasis' ('Oaza'): Film Review | Venice 2020
Three teenagers from Serbia, all living in an institution for young people with special needs, aren’t exactly intent on expressing their feelings vocally in Ivan Ikic’ deceptively titled second fiction feature, Oasis (Oaza). The talented writer-director’s frenzied but vibrant debut, Barbarians, from 2014 but set in 2008, looked at the lost generation of adolescents coming of age after the Balkan Wars, who had no people to look up to and who were desperate to simply feel something.