Three weeks after a teenager takes his own life, his classmates leave Serbia for a school trip to Bulgaria—as if life could simply go on. But when their bus breaks down and they are stranded in an isolated mountain hotel, the silence surrounding his death begins to crack. Who bullied him? Who watched? Who looked away? And when everyone shares some responsibility, who is willing to admit it?Winner of the Europa Cinemas Label for Best European Film at Karlovy Vary, where it world-premiered in the Crystal Globe Competition, Miroslav Terzić’s gripping drama-thriller turns a school trip into a brutal examination of teenage cruelty, group behavior, and collective guilt. The film went on to win Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Editing at the Pula Film Festival.At the center is Zoza, the dead boy’s closest friend, who refuses to participate in the group’s convenient silence. As grief mixes with guilt, anger, and fear, old tensions surface and the fragile hierarchy among the students begins to fracture. Gradually, the group’s attention shifts toward Zoza himself.Terzić transforms the remote hotel and surrounding mountains into a claustrophobic arena where the dynamics of the classroom become increasingly dangerous. What makes the film particularly disturbing is that the adults are hardly outside this system. Teachers see what is happening, yet hesitation, fear, and denial repeatedly replace intervention.Rather than searching for a single villain, 3 Weeks After asks a more unsettling question: what happens when cruelty becomes collective and everyone can persuade themselves that someone else is responsible?Shocking, tense, and uncompromising, the film captures the frightening ease with which a group can turn against an individual—and how silence itself can become a form of violence. Terzić offers no comforting answers, only a powerful confrontation with bullying, complicity, and our instinct to look away.Nicole Guillemet