Discoveries from Serbia and Montenegro World Cinema

A young couple enjoys precious few fleeting moments of intimacy during the brief periods between the day shift and the night shift.

A news reporter interviews taxi drivers of Podgorica about their bizarre encounters with customers.

A documentary film produced by the editorial board of Culture Radio Television Serbia. It was shot in 2005 on the slopes of the mountain Rudnik in warm and open house of Bozidar Mandic, ingenious ecologists and free thinker.

It represents a timeline about some of the most important, but vanished places for youth gathering in Novi Sad. It tells a story about places that were used by young people to develop their creative side, to learn, exchange knowledge and ideas and to socialize. The film covers an important period from the 60s to the mid 90s. How important were "Youth Forum", "Studio 24" and "Yellow House" for the young people of that time and why are these places no longer present?

Petar Božović, the legendary actor, masterfully speaks the poem of the great and genius poet Matija Bećković: We will fight again.

At the end of VHS era, two teenage cinephiles will on the same day not only experience their first falling in love, but also far gloomier circumstances they have never been aware of in turbulent Yugoslavia already on her deathbed.

A chamber TV film with the intention of reminding of Bozidar Grujovic, a doctor of law and insurgent legislator, who voluntarily came to unhappy and illiterate Serbia in the middle of the First Serbian Uprising, armed with knowledge of Roman law and the spirit of the French revolution.

It compiles more than twenty years of passionately recorded “pictures from life” captured on super 8, that Vukica Djilas shot from 1970 to late 1990s.

The day in life of a weird family. The unemployed father who has amnesia, mother who grows weed and son who sells it on the street in order to feed the family, the daughter who has succeeded as a porn-star, the elder son – an intellectual who translates Slovakian porn movies to a neighbor.

Documentary about KBO!, a punk rock band from Kragujevac, Serbia.

Biography and secret life of war criminal Radovan Karadzic, the leader of Bosnian Serbs.

A love story spiced with mild irony. Each of us keeps a deep "naive" view of the world that wants to convey to the real world, but this is often not possible because of the dynamic rhythm of life that is imposed on us. This is the story of the search for a "lost paradise" and finding it in a place no one expected.

At Roko Babičković’s farm, in the vicinity of the Hungarian border, Anica is hired. The newly established Schengen border has stopped trade and travels to Hungary, which was part of the local populace’s business. Anica decides to get married in Hungary and acquire the working documents that way. Roko helps her find the false groom who will marry her for his own ends.

TV personalities ... like a normal person, is scheduled RTS ten seasons. During that time, about 300 public figures showed that the success and popularity are not able to change them. Guests on the show talking about growing up, what they do, but also about how they survived the difficult years in the country, as they went through the bombing, were waiting in line for visas and had the same problems just like normal people.Since 2007. The shows are held at the Yugoslav Film Archive as for now, the only TV series in this archive.Author and presenter Tatjana Aleksic Peternek

One of the most famous alternative electro-rock bands from Belgrade live at Exit 2004.

Milena, a young director, arrives to Bor, a small mining town in Eastern Serbia. Her aim is to set up Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera" with local amateur actors. Different people come to the audition for this play. This documentary portrays their everyday lives, beyond the theater rehearsals.

Exciting life story of Saint Bishop Nikolai Velimirovic is intertwined in the movie with the most important events of the 20th century, in which he was a direct participant. The events on the turn of the century, the Balkan conflicts, World Wars I and II, the coming of communism, led Bishop Nikolai on schooling and doctorates in Europe, missionary work, humanitarian activities, quelling of hostile propaganda towards Serbia in London, work on the formation and strengthening the church in America, spiritual guidance of the church in Serbia, imprisonment and suffering, even enslavement to the infamous concentration camp Dachau. Often more respected abroad than in his own country, Bishop Nikolai died as a refugee in America. Left behind him were tomes of books with thousands of pages, and so much more.

Gucha, a small town in Central Serbia, becomes the world capital of brass bands every August. Three days of brass band competition, celebration, and joy of life are now captured in this documentary.

Documentary about making of the Električni orgazam album "Harmonajzer", released in 2002.

Short documentary about Miloš Ilić and his wild stories. Made by 11-year-old Matija Munjiza Petrović.

This film analyses in detail what the main cause for the collapse of the reforms; it speaks out about the “curse of the reformers” who are doomed to end up between a rock and a hard place caused by tensions in the society, political pressure, weak institutions…

The hero is the loneliest little girl in the world. She has no company. She is the only pupil at the school, as well as the last child in a beautiful ancient village. Only elderly people around her as well as an archaic kind of life. Her journey from her house to the school (the school only for her) reveals the real string of motions, colors, sounds, folk customs, habits, objects, buildings, faces… all that seems to be slowly fading to disappearance. The film is a metaphor for vanishing of a nation.

On the point of leaving the country, Dragor, a petty thief, by chance meets Gastos, a notorious criminal and former Secret Service…

What's left after the Egyptian revolution in 2011? During the presidential election of the former army chief al-Sisi in 2015, everyday life goes on and people in Cairo's alleyways are trying to make the best of it.

An essay on the demystification of the viewer and the creator of a work of art.

In 1999, Yugoslavia (then) had the honor of being bombed by the NATO alliance, which was envied by many countries around the world. After the bombing, many missiles did not explode when they fell. One of those bombs fell in Lake Palic near Subotica.

This film represents an effort to create a truthful story about everything that happened in Vukovar (Croatia) during the spring, summer and fall of 1991, as well as what happened before this time, shortly after the tragic event of 1991, and what the historical, societal and emotional consequences are, after years of pain, suffering and disappointment.

he film is devoted to Shanghai, the cultural and industrial capital of East Asia. Shanghai's prosperity began in the first few decades of the twentieth century when the biggest world powers identified their interests in this part of the world.

Six years after Belgrade was bombed by NATO forces, some buildings still remain destroyed. A team of cleaning ladies enters the ruins of the serbian Ministry of Defense wishing to put a bit of order in the chaos.

Documentary about Special Operations Unit, former Serbian paramilitary force.