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A detective runs into his violent brother he hasn't seen in twelve years. While trying to help him, his actions trigger repercussions that will shake their lives to the core.

Based on an iconic Yugoslavian graphic novel by Kostja Gatnik alias Magna Purga from 1977 the story follows the life of Urban, a man trapped in monotonous daily patterns from birth to death. Years pass relentlessly as Urban grows up and ages, with tireless repetitions persistently dominating his dreary, yet mysterious life like a working machine. However, just before his death, a glimmer of the meaning of life dawns upon Urban.

Newsreel 63 tries to position and understand a particular image - a shred of video taken with a mobile phone on the once famous Belgrade-Ljubljana rail route, where refugees now travel not in couchettes, but between the train's wheels. Newsreel 63 drifts into a visual investigation of railways and explores their historical, social, and political narrative. In her conception of the newsreel, Autor refers to traditional forms of the genre and employs various layers of content, connecting them through essayistic narration and visual elements. What makes Newsreel 63 unique is the way it straddles the line between the traditional informative, committed anti-newsreel form and a more textually-driven and experimental cinema, guiding the viewers through the story while leaving them to fill in the blanks with their own thoughts and reflections.

Film about the search for our true identity!