A film about factory workers who, after six years without
pay, decide to organize a lie-in on the road in front of their place of
employment. Oki is an unemployed worker and a union leader. His son Gruja is a
film director who, out of work for ten years, films weddings and funerals to
make ends meet, but also to save money for his big cinematic debut. His
girlfriend Bela, a jobless opera singer, tries to earn money singing arias door
to door… The White Lions is a comedy about bankrupt factories and their
employees, with no hopes for improving their lives. A metaphor for people who
fight for their spot under the sun, struggling for survival like the rarest
white lions. Persuasive performances dominate, as does the vivid characters’
colourful language. In a certain sense, the film could be taken as an
anti-globalization declaration of anarchy, rendered with the humour typical of
Serbian cinema.