(Rane). A pair of clever teenage criminals, by turns brilliantly entrepreneurial and murderously psychotic, flippantly rise to the top of Belgrade's criminal underworld in this harrowing film, which plays like a Serbian Trainspotting. In the moral vacuum created by a society devasted by militarism, sanctions, and drugs, the boys grow from small-time thugs into violent killers, yet perversely put childish antics and the need to prove their toughness ahead of survival. When one angrily shoots the other, they enter into a horrible pact. Based on a true story, directed in a frenetic style halfway between tragicomedy and MTV, the film set box-office records in Belgrade even though the Serb government forbade any sort of publicity.

• Written by Dragojevic. Photographed by Dusan Joksimovic. With Predrag Miki Manojlovic, Dragan Bjelogrlic, Nikola Kojo, Branka Katic. (103 mins)