Discoveries from Serbia World Cinema

Ginger: More Than a Game (Serbian: Zlatna levica, priča o Radivoju Koraću) is a Serbian documentary film about famous Serbian basketball player

Years after she disappeared from Igor's life without a word, Hana seeks forgiveness. However, it soon becomes unclear whether she is truly gone, or whether the past has found a way to live on in the present.

Portrayal of intimate life of a renown Serbian photographer Goranka Matić.

Music documentary about 35 years of work of the unusual punk rock group Zvoncekova Bilježnica. Through the words of the band members themselves, but also of many other musicians, rock journalists, writers, the career of one of the most original Serbian punk rock groups from the nineties is presented...

Carpe Diem is a 7-minute film that follows a young family through the rhythm of an ordinary day. Without words, it lingers on small moments. A laugh, a glance, a pause. Beneath the stillness lies a quiet revelation: how many mundane moments go unnoticed, how easily a day slips by, and how the sweetness of a dull day, if missed, keeps every day dull and belittled. As the day winds down and night falls, the child breaks the fourth wall of adult ignorance. Their gaze captures the unseen beauty in others, reminding us that we, too, are being witnessed. We, too, are part of the day’s plan to be seen and cherished. Carpe Diem is a tad more than a home video, but just enough. It’s a gentle call to attention.

Responsible and ambitious Ena prepares to audition for the National Theater ballet ensemble despite the fact that this is not her wish, but the wish of her mother Maria, former ballerina.

Robot vacuum takes minor part in mending a tense mother-son relationship.

The woman is on a train back from Spain. On her lap, a notebook of memories and an orange.

Three drunk and horny guys with diametrically opposed views on sex decide to call on a prostitute.

Uroš Tošković, one of the best draftsmen of all times, a man who merged art and reality, talks about his childhood, growing up and events that influenced him, his way of life and his creative work. He refuses to recognize imposed rules – he is a free man.

A young man has returned to his mother's native country. His aunt sends him off to find the worst man in the whole land and plead to him, so he could save his ailing grandfather's life. On his journey he finds peculiar things, song, death, courage and love.

An old man lives in a small village in the north of Montenegro. He is troubled by the story of his father, which he heard when he was a boy. At the end of WWII, an Italian officer called Mazzola was captured by the partisans, and soon after shot and buried close to the old man’s house. There is no tomb or trace; no real proof that the story is true. However, he is afraid of digging to see if any bones lie underneath. He turns to the remaining villagers in order to find out the truth. There are two men older than him, but their stories don’t always match and are not easy to comprehend.

A documentary on alternative music scene of Novi Sad (Serbia) that covers the period between 1989 and 2017.

The film has two parallel narrative lines. The first which follows the fate of a Slovenian "rebel without a cause" from the provinces, rocker and world traveler who contracted HIV in Africa. In the second line, in parallel, the history of the AIDS epidemic, the specific nature of the virus and the analysis of the drugs that enable the cure of the disease are presented. That virus is, for now, incurable, and is considered a plague of the modern world. Jovanović and his team recorded all the material in a large number of countries in America, Europe and Asia.

After the Serbian army defeated the Bulgarian army in the battle of Bregalnica at the end of June 1913, the HQ of the First Army under the leadership of Prince Crown Alexander set up the camp on the Black Peak near Kratovo.

The story of influential rock band from Belgrade.

If it hasn't been filmed it hasn't happened. It happened the way it was filmed.

In the attics of Roma houses throughout Vojvodina, we found about a hundred VHS tapes showing the most important event in the life of the Roma, the wedding and wedding customs. The recordings were made at the end of the 1980s and during the 1990s. Some of the wedding customs have been preserved and are practiced today, others have experienced a transformation, and others were on the verge of being forgotten and were finally remembered in this film. Early and arranged marriages and the cult of virginity are an integral part of the Roma tradition. The older and younger generations talk about those customs that were dictated by their wandering past and to what extent these customs are desirable today.

The life of a sick boy in Bor, city with the most polluted air in Serbia, and his friendship with a bird that comes to his window and brings a little joy into his grey days.

"Lazy Guy" is a look at the life of many youth and their families in Montenegro's capital city, Podgorica. Through the story of a young man struggling to find a job, the film attempts to show the culture, economic conditions of the country and how the normalization of corruption and dishonesty has led to despair and apathy."Lazy Guy" refers to the stereotyping of Montenegrins as lazy people. Through the experience of the main character, fighting against chronic hardship and disillusionment, in an environment knowing little prosperity, we should come to see the error of the label.

Farsa o Patlenu is a Yugoslav TV movie from 1970, produced by RTV Belgrade. It is an adaptation of the famous 15th-century French medieval farce, 'La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin'. The story follows a crafty, bankrupt lawyer who resorts to trickery to obtain fine cloth from a greedy draper. The film was directed by Jovan Konjović and the screenplay was written by Miroslav Karaulac.

Children play grown-ups and the Sun and clouds have roles as actors.

This is a story about a gigantic company in transition and a story about young people who do not give up in the fight against newly composed values.

Jelena is a middle-aged woman trying to cope with the pressure and norms imposed by society. Loneliness and inner struggles lead her to take unexpected actions.

Having difficulties in facing the next stage of his life, Marko leaves home to walk around the city with a peculiar acquaintance.

Documentary about Serbian rapper Danijel Mitrović aka Deniro.

Mihajlo Dragas made this stylized animated short about the lone man living on a desolate ocean platform and struggling to overcome a big fish and hunt it down.

A young girl, naked on the table, for waxing, tries to solve the mystery of male-female relations.

An experimental visualization of a personal diary that talks about struggling childhood and youth turns into a story about family, generations and all the lines they hold.

Born in Belgrade and raised in Barcelona, Filip starts to ask himself one, at first sight, very simple question: where am I actually from? Together with Asha, an Ethiopian girl who has an even more complicated life story, he strays to distant places where they have flashbacks from Latino soap operas – Telenovelas.

A futuristic fairy tale about balance in nature. The girl has a hobby of collecting insects. One night a romantic visitor shows up. By engaging in a harmless romance, in which a twist occurs, the girl experiences a fatal fate.

"Keeping the authenticity by intactness" Even if the price is to let it fall apart? Through it's poetic experimental form, this found-footage film analyses questions of religion, as a warm shelter or a cold, distant courtship, and tradition, which becomes an excuse for laziness and lack of passion.

A couple visits the property of their origins where the houses of the relatives living abroad are now standing. These relatives visit once a year for five days. They are the only visitors of these houses during the year.

Boro Drašković, one of the most important European directors, dedicates his life to the art of storytelling on film, theater and literature. As a professor and creator, he travels the world, imparting knowledge and shaping new artists, while through books and the stage he explores what it means to create and how art understands the world.

A beautiful, rich and arrogant lady under the pseudonym S comes to the unique, widely known OK company to buy a man. However, S has no idea that she is about to face a very difficult challenge.

He, wakes up. She, materializes in his living environment. They are attracted and make love. She, wakes up. He materializes in the living environment seen in the previous scene.They are attracted and make love. The wish fulfillment happens. Yin and Yang, the eternal accommodation.

Short student documentary about New Cinema Zvezda in Belgrade.

The end of the match was being played when Dusan Savic ran onto the ball and sent it into Arsenal's goal with his left foot. For the silence at "Highbury" that the English had never recorded before. Over 40,000 people who came to the "Highbury" stadium had the opportunity to see the fearless Red Star and saw her off with well-deserved applause. The generation that took a huge step towards the first final of a European competition was led by coach Branko Stankovic, the famous "Ambassador".

Mia is a girl who lives in nature and understands its secrets. Along with a group of scouts, Branko is camping in the forest where Mia lives. The loneliness and curiosity they both carry will bring them closer and reveal the unknown.

A low-budget Serbian comedy.

A man decides to kill himself. His life flashes before his eyes.

In 1991, armed conflicts began in the Socialist Republic of Croatia. This documentary follows the personal story of Igor, then a nineteen-year-old citizen of Belgrade who was recruited and sent to compulsory military service in the barracks in Varaždin, recorded by the camera of a family friend and video enthusiast Predrag Bata Milošević. A few months later, Igor returns from war twice as old and with scars that will probably never be healed. Today, after almost three decades, a whole generation is silent.

A young couple is living at his parents' apartment. Frustrated at not being able to provide for themselves, they fight. She decides something has to change.

On a mountaintop in southwest Serbia lies the womanless hamlet of Zabrdje, where the Jankovic brothers hold the fort. Veering between the utterly hilarious and deeply poignant, this beautifully-crafted film follows one brother's quest to introduce women back into the once-vibrant community. But with no roads or running water, convincing a Serbian woman is out of the question.

A middle-aged man really needs to tell his mother something.

Predrag Popovic, Goran Markovic, Srdjan Karanovic, Rajko Grlic and Lordan Zafranovic talk about the Russian intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968.

A dark comedy about a young artist who struggles to find inspiration in the wake of his parents' death.

On the eve of Christmas, a working couple struggle to get back home, while their children write a letter to Santa, asking him to grant them time with their parents.

A personal and professional story about one of the most successful basketball coaches, Svetislav Pesic. What is that makes Pesic a winner is revealed by some of the most famous players, coaches, world leaders in sport who worked and are still working with him, but also the ones closest to him. The film was shot in Barcelona, Munich, Berlin, Belgrade and Pirot and follows key moments in the career of Svetislav Pesic.

A Holy Place director Djordje Kadijevic looks back at how his early counter-revolutionary war films led to him inadvertently becoming part of the ‘Yugoslav Black Wave’, and how a polite but firm block on the making of any more such films led him into television and eventually towards the fantasy genre.

Stereoscopic 3D animation dedicated to Emil Cohl’s Fantasmagorie from 1908, made in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the cartoon film. Red and green glasses required!

The film follows the fate of residents of Belgrade's workers' settlement Makis, a once-industrial neighborhood declared a tourist zone, despite inadequate urban and communal and environmental conditions. Through their portrayal of citizens' initiative to appeal to the city authorities to improve the living conditions in Makis, their internal disagreements and individual life stories in the film subtly and impartially reflect the transition process, the remnants of the socialist legacy, and the hints of the capitalist present.

During the Balkan Wars in 1912 and 1913, military hospitals for wounded soldiers were opened in all bigger towns in Serbia. Most hospitals were in Belgrade where several thousand wounded soldiers were treated. The last XXXIV emergency hospital was located in a onetime tavern Smutnikovac at the Topcider hill. The owner of the private hospital was the industrialist, banker and philanthropist Djordje Vajfert and it was run by his nephew, the lawyer and industrialist Ferdinand Gramberg.

Made from a collection of home movies, news footage and photos gathered from a residency in Belgrade in memory of a country that no longer exists.

In 1985, the most famous musicians of Yugoslavia came together to record the humanitarian song For a Million Years as their contribution to Bob Geldof’s vision, which culminated in the legendary Live Aid concert. From the first hint of its melody to the final version of the song, its significance grew, transforming into a powerful symbol of unity and solidarity.

1st student film ever

Zek, an optimistic pink rabbit, lives in a small, isolated country called Rabbitland and dreams of a better life in a future prestigious city called New Rabbitland. But when a disastrous truth about the construction of New Rabbitland starts to unveil, Zek's illusions about her life, her country and her family all start to crumble and she must choose how and where she sees her future.

In search of treasure, the auteur travels through the villages of Stara Planina.

Documentary about the songs of Riblja Čorba, the most popular Serbian rock band.