Filmed both in New York City and the Serbian city of Belgrade, Here And Now (Tamo I Ovde) is a well-executed, yet moody character study of a joyless and unemployed New York saxophonist. Veteran New York actor, David Thornton, is perfectly cast in the leading role as the downcast Robert, whose face and whole body language plainly displays a harden attitude.

Life looks bleak for Robert, when he agrees to an extreme proposition out of financial desperation. In his journey, that will take him to a foreign war-torn capital, Robert will rediscover his joy for music. The sax-playing loner also finds himself compensated with an unanticipated romance.

New York-based, Serbian-born director Darko Lungulov also wrote the sardonic script centered around, granted, a stereotypical Big Apple misanthrope. Lungulov deftly makes use of black comedy to take this fish out of familiar water, and change the course of his hapless life.