Discoveries from Serbia World Cinema

Somewhere in Yugoslavia, during the Cold War, on the eve of the nuclear threat, when the children fell asleep, the elders began their games in the "crazy sixties" ...

A tough 13-year-old girl struggles to keep her emotions under control, whether concerning her missing dog or the boy she likes.

The people of the village on Mount Fruska Gora every few decades are facing wars and socioeconomic turmoil. It's the same now, in the so-called transition period. In the surrounding area there is a huge hole full of water, and the fate of the people are in some way connected with it, as a result of the growing power of multinational companies that are expanding, bringing trouble and death. In contrast, and away from it all, an old lady spends his last days not knowing what fate befell her hometown ...

A young writer is losing his faith in words. Luckily, there's also a girl in this story.

An illustrative film demonstrating Alan Fraser's approach to piano playing and principles of ergonomic motion. The exercises in this video develop hand structure and function, replacing both tension and over-relaxation with effective activation based on optimal skeletal alignment. The video offers pianists from beginners to professionals an astonishing enhancement of the colors and sonority one can draw from the instrument, and offers teachers new, effective solutions for their students' most common technical problems.

The Second Balkan War. At the beginning of the battle of Bregalnica, the Danube Division of I age class under leadership of Colonel Pavle Jurisic Sturm was located in the direction of Krivorecka on the positions of Car summit – Kalin kamen (Kalin stone) – Sveta voda (Holy water), with the mission to secure the left side of the I Army, which was supposed to lead the offensive. According to the military report written in Konopnici on the 11th July 1913, the cameramen of the producer Djoka Bogdanovic filmed the ammunition column of the Danube Division of I age class during ammunition placement on the position of Car summit. On this occasion, Komora oxen were filmed while grazing near the military camp, as well as harnessing them in Komora cart and headway of the ammunition column towards the position of Car summit.

Anamarija, head of a conservative and religious family, after her husbands death feels persecuted. Despite the rages of evil, she’s trying to find the balance between rasing her children and her own safety.

Young, loving couple is heading to the seaside. It won't take long until they decide to spice up their journey. Her way or his.

One night. One city. Two strangers crossing paths in Belgrade. A musician and a photographer meet by chance and spend a night talking about life, work, and what it means to be an artist. “One Night In Belgrade” is a romance short film about chance encounters, real conversations, and the feeling that a single evening can stay with you long after it ends.

A short film sequel to one of the stories from the feature film Three of a Kind. Thirteen years after the events of that film, Marija lives in Paris and remembers the love of her life, Gile, after she left him in pursuit of a career...

Sasa's best friend Boris starts spending time with Anka, and sits with her in class. Sasa feels neglected and becomes jealous, which leads to constant conflict and physical fights between two friends.

Documentary about Šaban Bajramović, a Serbian music performer of Roma ethnicity.

A group of wild boys who reject everything that has to do with the world of grownups as corruptible and hypocritical meet Vladan, who appears to be nothing like their weak fathers and decide to show him a dark secret hidden in the woods.

One of the world’s earliest female rock and roll bands was formed in Belgrade in the 1960s. In complex circumstances and times when “electrical” music was a nuisance to the “guardians of public morals” for spreading the rebellious spirit, teenage girls Doda, two Ljiljas and Nena founded VIS SANJALICE and conquered the music scene of Yugoslavia, on par with male bands.

The poetic of the sensory representation of the mythological longing for the unification of the separated sexes.

While having a virtual walk through StreetView, on Google Maps, the artist questions the dissonance between the way the city is portrayed on those maps, and the way city looks today, compared to their own personal changes through time.

Say you’ve met a creature from another world. The creature that promises to guard you from deadly dangers which the future holds in store. Sounds like a sure bet? No hasty conclusions, though…. In every perfect offer there may be something that ruins any expectations of the wondrous. And yet, you accept the offer. So, do you really think you are protected? Funny….

On the last day of summer before high school, two best friends finally decide to meet the guy they’ve been stalking for some time.

The film is comprised of a collection of Instagram story posts taken with an iPhone during the pandemic year 2020. Reflections on isolation, separation, and distance - as felt in remote locations of interior Alaska and a village on the island of Lesbos.

This film is a memoriam and memory of Dejan Nebrigic, a Serbian gay and peace activist, writer and theater critic. He is one of the founders of the Serbian LGBT movement, one of the most prominent activist and the first gay in Serbia who had a public coming out.

A friendship between two high-school girls gets progressively more emotionally abusive and co-dependent, until one of them is forced to face the way we let other people cast us in unwanted roles.

A girl roams through the city in order to retrieve her heart and take it to her boyfriend. But there is one problem: the heart has stopped beating.

The documentary "Car Town Fingers" presents eight guitarists from Kragujevac, who through their work are trying to preserve reputation of Kragujevac as rock center.

A young clerk, Marko, on his way back home from work starts to notice that someone is following him. Is that person real or is it a part of his psychosis?

Is it possible to make a peaceful revolt in the 21st century? Students in Serbia, with the support of the population, have been trying for more than ten months. But repression and police violence in the State keep increasing. As predicted by Filip Balunovic, professor of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade, "the president has used all the tactics unimaginable, but he will have no problem resorting to violence." Is Serbia at a point of no return?

Three friends sit down to enjoy a watermelon, but its taste is unlike anything they expected—strange, unsettling, almost wrong. Two of them stop, but one refuses to give up and keeps eating. His stubbornness leads to one devastating event, a single moment so terrible it changes everything. A chilling horror where one bite is enough to seal your fate.

Animated woodcuts from the bibliophile edition “Monuments” (1961) by Milos Ciric (1931 – 1999), inspired by the texts of Serbian poets about sufferings during the Second World War.

Documentary about the rock and roll scene of Vrnjačka Banja, a small tourist town in Serbia.

Monika and Nikola were sweethearts for some time. However, one night their exes show up again – Nikola’s ex-girlfriend Darija and Monika’s ex-boyfriend Kokan. In a stormy night their lives will be changed completely.

The protagonist of the story is a place of calmness, purity and serenity: an ancient shrine on an islet, dedicated to Our Lady. It is facing a strange antagonist: speed, tumult, superficiality, and vanity of the modern era. Heavenly vs. mundane, temporarily vs. eternal, material versus spiritual…

Gang leader gets killed in prison before he dies he entrust the next gang leader to find his son and save him.

A Serbian cartoon depicting a party gone horribly wrong.

Who is Koca Popovic? Artist, poet, surrealist, philosopher, warrior, general, cynic, statesman, spoiled son of a rich man, genius war leader or a bon vivant? A Serb who learned French language before his own, a convinced communist who made fun of the communist dogma, sportsman, vice-president of Yugoslavia who drove to work in his Spacek? Answers to these questions could be: all of this and none of it really. In fact, who is Koca Popovic remains a mystery even today. A mystery that this film will at least try to unravel.

The documentary Mayor is not only a story about the legendary Branko Pesic, a great builder and visionary, who created the greatest symbols of Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, but also about a beloved citizen of the capital, more popular even than Josip Broz Tito.

Kenedi is in a huge debt after building a house for his family. He finds himself searching for any kind of work to support himself, for as little as 10 EUR per day, a scarce amount to help him relief his debt. Ultimately, Kenedi decides to look for money in sex business. Initially offering his services to older ladies and widows, he expands his 'business' to offer sex to wealthy men. When he finds out about new liberal European laws on gay marriages, Kenedi sees prospects in looking for a "marriage material", to renew his search for a legal status in EU. The opportunity arises during EXIT Music Festival, when he meets Max, a guy from Munich. But will their promising relationship bring the solution to Kenedi's problems?

Danica lives with her parents in a small flat. Relations between the household members are not the best, everyone lives in his own world. Although they don't have much money, an unemployed father buys a brand new TV for the bedroom. He hopes for convincing her wife to fall asleep by his side instead of spending nights in the living room in front of the screen. The device, however, deepens the family crisis even more.

Pra-Milan (73) is a poet, philosopher, and two-time presidential candidate from the 1990s. After winning a lawsuit against the state for the persecution he endured under the communist regime, he leases a neglected tourist complex on the mystical mountain of Rtanj.

A documentary on police brutality during the anti-corruption protest in Valjevo, Serbia on August 14th, 2025.

A girl is trying to reconnect with her ex-boyfriend.

International music superstar Rambo Amadeus is among the most popular personalities in the Balkans. A unique performer with a forty-year-long career, he gained importance in this part of Europe in the fields of music, poetry, sailing, philosophy, marketing, and political history.

Sixth of the diary series of Miloś Tomič and his son

Mirko suffers from nightmares as he struggles to cope with the recent loss of his father. His mother, Vesna, is finding it difficult to manage as a single parent, but increasingly seeks support and friendship from their kind neighbor, Jova. As Vesna and Jova grow closer, Mirko’s disapproval becomes more aggressive, and his lack of self-control strains his relationship with his mother. The situation shifts when Mirko’s childhood friend Marina arrives in the village for the summer holidays. The emotions that develop between them seem to fill the emptiness in Mirko’s heart. Through these new experiences, Mirko begins to see his mother with eyes full of understanding.

Once a symbol of Yugoslavia's progress, Sava Centar was left to deteriorate since the country broke apart. Piece by piece, the interior elements that resided in this cultural and congress centre since the 70's are torn out. Like many of the younger workers on the reconstruction, Nenad is here for the first time.

Mihailo, a teenager from a small town in the interior of Serbia goes to his grandmother's house to bring her lunch. At home, he finds his grandmother dead in bed. The film deals with the customs and nature of people in small environments.

More than a decade after the string of murders committed by Jack the Ripper, Inspector Parker must confront his troubled past. Along the way, he encounters some familiar faces and is forced to grapple with important questions about life.

Ping pong for life.

Three stories set across Serbia, Singapore and Spain follow immigrants and their uneasy relationships with foreign landscapes. In Serbia, a man comes back to his hometown after years living abroad. He feels estranged while visiting places he once knew well, and is confused about the disappearance of the intimate connection he had with once familiar landscapes. In Singapore, an expatriate couple living a monotonous life face upheaval after an encounter with cosplayers in their neighborhood. This is followed by a trip to a coral reef, which has managed to survive in an industrial area. In the final segment, a couple from Latin America arrives in Spain to search for a better life. They are ready to explore the new landscape, but uneasiness and fear of the unknown haunt them.

A robot tries to take his first steps toward freedom.

The video, titled "Mravi marksisti marljivo marširaju (Puževi pažljivo prelaze put nightcore Lenin remix)," humorously blends a slow-burn, arthouse approach with playful, "conceptual art" vibes. It features ants, likened to Marxist workers, marching with diligence—an ironic commentary on collective labor, set against a nightcore remix backdrop. The remix and slow, intentional pacing turn the mundane journey of ants into a symbolic crawl, invoking grand themes of struggle, endurance, and… possibly nonsense.

A famous businessman and war crime suspect is targeted by a young hit-man, a skilled sniper. Under unbelievable circumstances, only a half-hour after the shooting, the hit-man meets his baby sister. He hasn't seen the little girl for years. He learns that their mother is fighting for her life in a city hospital. Soon after seeing his dying mother, the young hit-man finds out his attack was unsuccessful. The businessman's been badly wounded and the doctors are trying to save him in the same hospital... The second attempt takes an unexpected twist.

A short experimental film.

Joymakers explores the musical mastery of Roma trumpet players in Serbia and reveals that, behind the dynamic melodies, lies a difficult life and struggle for survival. At the heart of the story is Milan Nikolić, a continuator of the important mission of teacher Maskut Maskotović – to teach Roma children to play correctly and preserve their health. The encounter of American professor, Nada Miljković, with Milan, provides us with an authentic and emotional insight into their lives.

A fragmented film collage of found & archived footage originally created by experimental film students in Novi Sad, Serbia circa 1970.

Grandpa Jonel and Grandma Kornelija invited me to capture some photos of the final moments of their beloved rooster, affectionately named "The Singer," before he is taken to the slaughterhouse. By chance, I started filming and unintentionally documented the daring escape attempt and the attempt to change the fate of a chicken in the countryside.

Fanzine - a word that originated in the forties of the last century, means a combination of the words fan - lover and magazine - magazine. From the very beginning until today, these are amateur publications that deal with less popular, often even obscure topics. Fanzines experienced their heyday with the emergence of punk culture, but although fans of underground music were the most active creators of this form of expression, fanzines often deal with socially engaged topics, art, sports and so on. When mainstream culture does not provide enough information, or when it does not allow you to express your ideas, attitudes and interests in a way that is close to you, you can take matters into your own hands and publish everything you want in a fanzine, of which you are the creator, publisher and distributor.

Sky Lines is a formalist film that evokes, via repetition and an extreme sound design, a death driven fear of nothingness, of the end of things. As formal sets of choreographed lines slowly dance across the screen, space and perception alter continuously and a sense of suspense and instability manifests itself. In Nadine Poulain’s film ‘Sky Lines’ the awful is not seen, but the sensational Lucifer is there nonetheless. He is waiting just around the corner for all of us. This is our anxiety; something Jacques Derrida has coined ‘Hauntology’.

Serbian high school graduates get together, 30 years later, in their former Belgrade classroom. They finished school in 1989. It was the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and their horizons seemed wide open towards Europe and the world. But instead, the Yugoslav wars broke out.

The film presents an analysis of a concrete situation: it begins with a representation of the political oppression (forced evictions) the government of the city of Belgrade visited on the Roma people inhabiting the settlement of Belleville.

The story takes place in the Serbian province of Vojvodina in a multi-ethnic setting. It is a story about love and faith, that is, faith in love that conquers time and space. The director has explained that the story has been derived from a literary blog, which is popular among young members of Vojvodina's Hungarian minority and which was originally launched in 2010.