Discoveries from Serbia World Cinema

Documentary on the end of the war between Bosnia-Herzegovina. Available on El Salto's YouTube channel.

He is back, but this time he is making no mistakes.

Miloš is on the run in Ottoman-occupied Serbia, protected by Sara. Their identities and entire imagined reality are put to the test.

This documentary follows the jazz music scene in Niš, Serbia.

Mitrovica is a city in Kosovo ethnically divided between Albanians and Serbs. The landscape of the place frozen by conflict narrates two poems about the dying mothers. Two people seem to be lost in ruins and the cherry trees blossom.

Two popular youtubers receive fanmail,but very soon they realize that this is not normal fanmail,it was sent by a psychopath.

A short film that covers one episode of “Zoranova pošta”podcast. When Zoran, the host, welcomes a new guest, the conversation takes an unexpected turn.

The central theme of this feature-documentary film is a question related to the life and work of Petar Lubarda, one of our most eminent Serbian and Yugoslav painters of the twentieth century. How did this painter, who represented the highest reaches of post-war art in socialist Yugoslavia, acquire the status of state artist, while his biography emphasizes the romantic archetype of the haunted painter, pentre maudit, behind whom are misfortune, illness, fate and death?

In the quiet interior of his studio, a Ukrainian painter draws portraits of Kyiv that delineate the recent tumultuous political history of his country, even if he denies it.

Milutin and Mica returned, after forty years, to the school in Orlja Glava where they had begun their teaching careers. The crumbling walls and dim shadows inside the building stirred memories of former students, as well as a way of teaching that seems to have vanished forever.

The legend Dragan Stanarevic, Gaga Stajls, goes into his bath to shower, gradually becoming more and more lunatic and schizophrenic.

The factory for the production of electrical transformers “Minel – Ripanj” was built in the Belgrade settlement Ripanj in 1953. For the needs of Minel’s worker, in 1959 the Colony neighbourhood was built near the factory. Around 300 people live there today. My grandfather, who is like a ghost, walks with me through the premises where he once worked.

Two homelands have I, Cuba and the night.

A visitor of the Student Cultural Center discovers an old journal and starts writing his own and descends into madness.

A young teenager leads an extremely difficult life, but with the help of faith he finds new hope...

Tells about Darko Pančev, Macedonian football player and his story of success.

The film is dedicated to the centenary of the First World War, on the territory of the municipality of Ljubovija, and is based on true events. It tells the heroic resistance of the not very powerful but proud Sokol Brigade, made up of third-callers and recruits from the villages around Ljubovija.

Inspector Peter and his young assistant, Parker, try to uncover the mystery behind the ruthless serial killer Jack the Ripper, whose number of victims increases day by day. Will they succeed?

In a quiet valley, a small village Slumbers softly in the evening dusk Only one window is still aglow Where a sorrowful girl waits alone. Meet Cveta, who was brought by train to Vojvodina as an infant girl in a kneading trough for bread with a wave of colonists from Slovenia. In the village of Gudurica, on the slopes of the Vršac hill, her family and many other settlers started a new life in a region that would unusually mark her destiny.

Minja opens up to the psychologist about her friend Vera, who is no longer by her side.

A mysterious girl is carrying a box in which a secret is hidden.

"The Cargo Orchestra" band is going on tour in the former Yugoslavia. The group is made up of a motley crew of characters from all the nationalities of the former Yugoslavia. The director accompanies the group as a videographer. This tour was an opportunity for her to follow Darko Rundek, leader of the Cargo Orkestra, across the region she left as a teenager.

ELON is a film about Denis Demirović, a young musician on his way to fame. The musical direction he chose, trap, is currently the most controversial music, primarily in the eyes of his fellow musicians, while the wider audience is still discovering it.

Everything can be packaged – matter, ideas, people, and nature. What happens when the package becomes essential and takes out the essence out of the substance it was supposed to contain? This question becomes a stream of consciousness of the Thinker, who is faced with the supermarket of our world. This video is a part of a bigger project, started by Igor Simiæ: www.shoppingcartartproject.com

A short experimental film.

During the last days of summer, two friends meet up for one last time and reminisce about their past relationship.

The residents of a Serbian village, who have withdrawn into an insular identity, must live together with illegal migrants who, on a stopover in their journey to the European land of milk and honey, must remain invisible. The power of Marko Grba Singh’s film to evoke this place of paradoxes comes from how he interplays elements of Balkan “farce” with a certain elegiac melancholy.

Maybe it wouldn't, but we didn't even try. Boško Obradović, dentist for children and youth from Pula, was one of those who recorded reality, warned of what was to come and knew that the past would always be manipulated. Almost 40 years ago, he wrote atomic verses, which we have been living for the past four decades, but still today. And every time, when hope was created, we would fail to find shelter... From the same mistakes and the same stumbles. Boško and others like him were neither prophets nor visionaries, but they knew what was coming after... After hellish drivers, new careerists, the third world war. In vain, he urged his own, but also all future generations not to whine. "Made in Pula", by Rada Đurić, is a film that reminds and believes. He owes it to all those who do not give up.

"Balkan Rock Legends", a group based in Amsterdam, has been around for 4 years. They play rock'n'roll from a country that no longer exist. The band's repertoire includes songs from over 50 groups and artists who marked YU-rock. They don't play it "in their own way", but as close as possible to the original at concerts that last at least 3 hours. Their status as a "cover band" is very relative, considering that many members and guests perform their own original songs.

Vladan Vasev aka VaXz, is a lover of basketball and all kinds of team sports from Bosilegrad, who completely single-handedly restored faith in the hardcore music scene in Serbia. When the performers on stage noticed his jumps and the way of dancing specific to hardcore music and inquired about the most loyal member of their audience, they learned an incredible story. In order to attend the concert, VaXz travels from Bosilegrad to Belgrade sometimes up to ten hours, and then returns, sometimes immediately after listening to the gig. In this film, we meet Vladan and what it is that inspires him about hardcore, but through his portrait we also get to know life in a small town like Bosilegrad, as well as the history of hardcore music in Serbia and how bands came together to honor their most loyal fan.

Documentary about one of the most successful football stars of Yugoslavia, Velibor Vasovic ‘Vaske’.

Research paper from the subject: 'Critical thinking: border politics' on the topic "Defining the cultural identity of Belgrade through reference to marginal rebellious and non-conformist youth: fans and underground elite".

A mockumentary about a film director who, with his crew, tries to make a film inspired by his upbringing by visiting places that mean something to him and evoking forgotten memories.

Stylized documentary about a young musician, who trough battle against his biggest lifelong insecurities, grows into a local star and becomes a symbol of hope and persistence.

A special short film dedicated to the punk rock band KUD Idijoti.

At the time when Serbia was under international sanctions, while cities were bombed and citizens spent their days on the streets and shelters, some people found their happiness in the newly conceived rave subculture.

About questioning, cycling and moving on.

1973 showcases the life of protagonists at the banks of the river Sava. As the water flows there seems not much happening at first sight. Space for the memories of a past transcending into the moment.

"Aurora's Dream" explores the collective unconscious in a period of contemporary crisis. Individual participants share their most vivid and personal dreams. Subliminal narratives visually intertwine with the turbulence of the present, bringing archetypes and motifs from the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale to the fore.

A three-part musical short film by the Serbian artist Konstrakta.

The story of Zagor-Te-Ney, hero of the Darkwood forest, which is on this occasion situated on the slopes of Fruška gora and other wooded areas of Vojvodina, where this low-budget amateur film was made by a comics/film enthusiasts led by Svetozar Ljubojevic from Novi Sad.

Portrait of an oppressed elderly woman in a patriotic Serbian family, living in small town suburbia.

A famous painter finds a gift that links him to his dark past, directly responsible for the peak of his career.

The exploration of eroticism and jealousy between two young girls.

Stevan, a 60-year-old, former porn performer from Serbia awaits the outcome of a Kafkaesque trial process in a Maltese prison. The moody landscapes reflect the loneliness and desperate state he was in prior to his arrest for public exposure in this bizarre story, which unspools like an eerie mystery.

In the 80s, the world was happily typing away on their Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers. However, not everybody had access to these wonders of technology. In Yugoslavia, people weren't allowed and couldn't afford to have a computer in their home, so they had to improvise. This campaign is a story about the origins of the Balkans computer scene and Yugoslavia's very own personal computer.

What are the marionettic ants?

This super hero comes to a women's house to save her.

The Pannonian sea is gone, only cornfields remain. The people from afar reached the fields and raised their banners high, to show the path to their brethren from afar, leaving for the promised world. The landscapes of the evening sky over the plain depict the inner landscapes of endless wastelands, lonely people, tamed lands, peaceful rivers, common coexistence.

Prophet documentary about Covid-19, Micro-chipping and New World Order mass control.

A biographical documentary about the true life and the real rap music of Smoki Mardeljano.

Short student film about pick up artist Pedja Gnjatic.

The Land is a haunted place between the two worlds; living and dead, where history and mythology converge. This territory named Krajina which means 'frontier' or ' the edge', is the land given by the Habsburg emperor in 17th century to the Serbian refugees from all over the Balkans to settle down and defend the border from the Ottoman empire. Today, formally the part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this land is still the imaginary line between the two civilizations, between east and west. It is a bewitched space, a dystopian universe where the ghosts return from all the past battles.

In a television broadcast from the late 1960s, the vocal-instrumental ensemble Buch Kesidi caused hysteria and riots of national proportions. The deadline for the performance was breached, but the euphoria still lasts.

The daily routine of 87-year old Vida changes when a neighbor foretells her future, announcing the upcoming arrival of an extraordinary guest. In the same scattered mountain village in the Balkans, young Slavoljub is experiencing an overwhelmingly strong attraction to his peer Vladana.

"Come Together" is a story of an encounter between two people who haven't seen each other for 65 years, during which they've constantly exchanged letters.

This movie is actually recreation of real wooden box filled with seven meter long illustrated band, representing the flash back of entire life of our character.

The movie follows the story of actual historical figures on which the characters of popular Yugoslav TV series "Otpisani" were based, who were all undercover combatants of the royalist Yugoslav faction.