Discoveries from Serbia World Cinema

Vojkan is a man who starts his days at precisely same time and according to strictly established „rituals.“ However, this day some unplanned events will happen.

Nebojša comes to the countryside with his wife and son to celebrate his mother’s birthday. The family is trying to spend an idyllic weekend together, but the harmony is shaken up by Nebojša’s recent love affair. They are trying to cope, but as the day goes by, it’s getting harder for everyone to stand the situation.

The seven-episode documentary limited series "A Different World" tells about a truly different world of work values and social organization, that lasted several decades after the Second World War in Yugoslavia at the time.

Djordje has to choose between his mask and his real face. He has to figure out how to deal with what he feels. Ognjen chose he will fight for his life and his love. Everything changes when reality crushes between them.

A boring and monotonous life presented through a seemingly ordinary day.

A police investigator is violently interrogating a boy accused of subversive activities. Meanwhile, at home, his wife is tending to their gravely ill son. There is a strange link between the pain he is inflicting upon his prisoner and the recovery of his son.

A low-budget comedy.

Onti is a fictional character. He is a paraphrase of our subconscious. He is both a nightmare and an inseparable part of our being. This short video musical personifies the randomness of feelings, thoughts, events and perceptions related to it.

A psychopath can't choose who to kill, so he invents a system - free hugs.

Two Serbian cinematography students set out to follow the longest relay in history, through protests, blockades, and a line of memories, tracing back to the moment it all began. An intimate and powerful film about fear, freedom, and a generation that is still running.

A story about musician from Podgorica, capital of Montenegro, told in the style of Dogme '95.

Mila (Alisa Radaković) and Tina (Anita Ognjanović) are on their night out. Seeking cheap thrills and pleasures, while their friendship is put to the test.

Zoya is the percussionist of a musical group. She wants to live her life abroad. On the evening before her departure, she meets Luka. The bond that unites them may be stronger than they suspect.

The action takes place in Valjevo during WWI.

An experimental documentary graduation thesis. Conflicting worldviews of a Serbian female artist, Marina Markovic, anorexia nervosa surviver, are contrasted with archive footage of socialistic Yugoslav propaganda.

The meeting of singers from Serbia Predrag 'Cune' Gojković and Minja Subota with their former friend, Slovenian singer Elda Viler. Pera Dimitrijević, a former singing star in Slovenia, organized the meeting. Dimitrijević has been unsuccessfully trying to create "a bridge of friendship" between Serbia and Slovenia for years. During the stay of Gojković and Subota, Slovenians were not interested in their concert.

A low-budget comedy.

Mateja and Beli are best friends. When Mateja begins to dream of Beli as an S&M bull, their relationship changes rapidly, and hiding things leads to violence.

Sunny and Hannah live together in the big city. Sunny is aspiring actress, intensely preparing for the premiere of her new play. Hannah is often alone—dealing with her demons alone.

Father Milos is caught up in his own nightmare and distortion of reality, after committing the murder.

After breaking away from a correctional facility, two girls rob a gas station, but their plan gets out of control. They are forced to continue their escape through the mountain backwoods. In contact with the wild, deeply suppressed instincts emerge within them.

The Second Balkan War. One of the greatest victories of the Serbian army in the central front during the Battle of Bregalnica against Bulgarians was taking the summit Zedilovo by the XII Infantry Regiment “Car Lazar“ from the formation of the Sumadija Division of I age class under leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Milivoje Stojanovic Brka. Cameramen of the producer Djoka Bogdanovic filmed by camera three pictures on Zedilovacka ridge during the 10th and 11th July 1913: 1) Attack of the XII Infantry Regiment “Car Lazar“ on the Bulgarian position on Zedilovacka ridge at 1200 metres away from the enemy; 2) Regiment reserve of the Infantry Regiment “Car Lazar“ approaches Zedilovo at the distance of 1500 metres away from the enemy; 3) Work in the headquarters of the Infantry Regiment “Car Lazar“ of I age class after the battle on Zedilovacka ridge.

A comedy set in a village where mother and her beautiful daughter move into a house, where they soon grab neighbors' attention.

A research-based essay film, but also a very personal perspective on the history of socialist Yugoslavia, its dramatic end, and its recent transformation into a few democratic nation states.

Movie in a movie or is it maybe something else...?

Documentary about the music scene in Karaburma

Director's intimate story about the loss of his younger brother, who was brutally killed in a fight in front of one of Belgrade's riverside bars. Through this one and several similar incidents, where people lost their lives without any reason, the director searches for the roots of violence and hate in our society. Recipe for Hate is a documentary about the process of creating and spreading hate, and how we, as a society, have easily complied with the violence that surrounds us.

Wrong flowers, a Macedonian palm reader, a cunning brother, a village romance, a strange anecdote, a careless friend, a delayed flight... Through a series of quirky, comedic, and endlessly witty situations, Luka, Ellie, Kole and Gala try to figure out what true love really is. And is there a better place for such a story than Belgrade?

The subject of the film is the cultural phenomenon of Muškatle (Pelargoniums) music, which flourished in 1986 and continued until 1991, originating from Vojvodina. Archival footage and narration from musicians, professionals and fans of the genre reveal how Hungary's fun style of folk music was transformed into a form of muscat and, despite cultural resistance, why the trend is still so popular today.

Funeral home owner Daniel is invited to attend a vigil with a highly unusual request – to photograph the vigil and the deceased. Driven by a material incentive, Daniel agrees to this request. Upon arrival, he discovers that the deceased's relatives are also unusual individuals who want him to respect their traditional customs originating from the Vlach region...

By the end of 2003, few people knew what the Special Operations Unit of the Republic of Serbia did: the media was fawning over them, politicians respected them.

Dragoslava has four TV sets, three grandchildren, two best friends, and a husband with whom she fights over a remote control. She keeps her private archive of memories of all major events in recent political history of five countries in which she has lived, without ever moving from her apartment. She is a trained poll monitor, passionate about her right to be in the minority, but more and more desperate as another early election approach.

In a town teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, municipality president and a local DIY TikToker find help in a new friend from Switzerland.

Through a combination of personal narration, conversations with fellow artists and Hungarian language classes, which the author attends in order to become a citizen of the European Union, the film questions the romanticized idea of ​​working for love and shows how doing art often means fighting against obstacles of the system, economic insecurity and self-doubt.

A family dinner goes terribly wrong.

A film by Igor Toholj.

Documentary movie about the legendary underground fanzine "Krpelj" (The Tick), the brainchild of Danilo Milošev-Wostok.

This short movie consists of the 3 previously released music videos by Sixth June: "Winter Didn't Come", "Negde neko" and "In Dreams" from their latest album "Trust" (2020).

I Talk Otherwise is a movie about a journey along the Danube seen from the viewpoint of the river itself. It has been shooted in 8 countries and 9 languages, from West to East, from Capitalism to Communism, from the Black Forest to the Black Sea, flowing between the mixtures, the rafts, and the cultural contradictions of the lands crossed by the great river. Conceived as a road movie, it trails the river from its source in Germany, across Austria and some former Communist countries - Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania - all the way to its mouth in the Black Sea, on a journey from the past to the future of the Europe.

Conjuring reality and wonder, "Speak so I Can See You" takes us to a seemingly different era, by exploring the world of Radio Belgrade. One of Europe's oldest radio stations and a true institution of the city, the station still broadcasts original programming and helps keep history, culture and critical thought, as well as everrelevant questions about ourselves and the world, from slipping out of memory and mind. Set at the intersection of an observational documentary and a unique sensory experience, the film conjures everyday scenes at the station and immersing interludes exploring the relationship between sound and the space it inhabits. Through a synesthetic blend of sounds, words, notes, echoes and light, we are taken into a unique cinematic soundscape that doubles as a love letter to radiophonic art and its disarming insight into what makes us remember, understand, think, discover, and feel.

Documentary about a man fighting in the Balkan wars.

Bitter poetry of everyday life in the isolated hills of Eastern Bosnia shows the care and intimacy of the grannies, both in their mutual relations and in relationship with nature.

On the eve of Man's conquest of the Moon, in the summer of 1969, 34-year-old Milutin Veljković set off to spend the following 15 months in a two-kilometer long cave in the Southeast Serbia, in a company of a dozen of hens and ducks, and a puppy. Veljković wasn’t just interested in beating the record in cave dwelling - he aimed to penetrate into the universe of depth.

Fedja, drummer in a funeral orchestra is living with his son Nikola, drummer in a heavy metal band.

Nemanja is discharged from a psychiatric hospital and is coming back home.

Two young people are in innocent love. Love, and harmony. In this idyllic story, third person get involved. Seeking for piece of love. It would be a an everyday love drama, but if the two lovers are Serb and Albanian in the divided city, and the spokeswoman of KFOR wants Serbian, things really can get out of control. Stories of illicit love affairs have become part of folklore, but what happens when love causes the war? And when he starts, a war is nothing but a carnival of the hate.

Documentary movie about life, shown through the dead.

Recently transferred from Monastery Dečani, after 28 years living as a monk, Father Arsenie, Belgrader, a cult figure from the ’80-is, is now engaged in restoring and creating a spiritual and cultural center in the Monastery of Ribnica, near Mionica, central Serbia, which had been destroyed by the Turks in the beginning of the 19th century. By reminiscing about his complex past, Father Arsenie takes us into his daily life: the scenes intertwine with his daily activities as a monk; prayer, service and observing Orthodoxy come first.

Documentary film "Life as a Collection of Circles" is about Sreten Stefanovic; falconer, champion, Olympic player, true amateur, pedagogue, 20th century witness and the oldest Apple computer user in Serbia.

Four legendary Yugoslav film directors talk about their careers, capitalism, sex, life, death and revolt.

A young couple living in a post-apocalyptic world are trapped on top of a building in a race against time.

A teenager kleptomaniac steals stuff.

A young man enters a freight elevator to perform his daily, routine work. In the claustrophobic environment of the tin box, an unusual process suddenly begins to take place, culminating in a shocking finale that leaves one wondering where the elevator is going.

A girl from a small community is trying to win from her gloomy and dark everyday life one night at an abandoned fair.

A documentary about the commander of the King Peter II Karađorđević's Mountain King's Guard - Nikola Kalabić.

It began with an idea to shoot a documentary short film about street musicians in Belgrade. I agreed when my friend suggested shooting the film in an improvisational mode and nobody knew what would happen next. As we were shooting we met new local street musicians, took lessons from them and this is what came out of it.

2-3 minute short films on 7 deadly sins by 7 amateur directors from 7 different countries.

Documentary about Serbian alternative rock band Napred u prošlost (Forward into the Past).

In Eastern Serbia, in a town with a dual identity divided between magic and industry, a family whose destiny is intrinsically linked with both does their best to ensure the survival of their traditions and their future generations. Lifelong miner Dragan Markovic is the last in a line of dragon hunters, while his sister Desa is the widow of the union leader who is trying to continue his legacy by ensuring the rights of fellow mine-worker families.

The daily life of Mihajlo, a factory worker in a neglected industrial town. Testimonies about his life are given by the people around him. At times, these people are seen as part of Mihajlo’s daily routine, but after the character leaves the stage, their voices remain as the narrator. What they don’t know is that Mihajlo obsessively steals tools from the factory and suffers from lost love. And they can’t anticipate what is going to happen one morning.