Discoveries from Serbia World Cinema

Short student documentary about a street artist from Belgrade.

34 Pageant for Miss Seafaring in Velika Plana

Carving and Whistling through Visual palimpsest, video piece constructs Alternative logical reality.

In this mockumentary filmmaker Bill Kroeber investigates the mysterious death of humor icon Dickie, unearthing a peculiar journey from fame to fall. Interviews with key figures reveal Dickies tumultuous childhood, talent for chaos, and rise as a celebrated comedian. Accidental career destruction, an Emmy disaster, and enmity with industry insiders are unveiled. A charity event incident leads to suspicions of foul play. The docu reconstructs Dickies escape from media scrutiny and his faked death. In a surprising twist, Bill Kroeber is revealed as Dickie, seeking redemption but facing backlash. The movie will make fun of well-known films, historical events, world-famous figures...

Combining folk music and traditional ways of singing with a full orchestral sound, Bilja Krstić and the Bistrik Orchestra give a fresh lease of life to the old songs. This music, with its feelings, atmosphere and flavours represent traditions from the entire Balkan region.

Home videos about the first days of the NATO bombing of Belgrade, filmed on the streets of Žarkovo.

Have you ever heard that George Harrison's grandmother was from the village of Sandalj, near Valjevo? Do you know that the members of the Beatles left an indelible mark in the memory of the citizens of Valjevo? That the details of the stay of the Liverpool's "Beetles" in Valjevo and its surroundings are still being recounted? Do you know that the acorn of peace is a joint idea of John Lennon and Josip Broz Tito, created under the monument of Stevan Filipović? That "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da" is just a cover of a traditional Roma song? That the memory of good banter lives on in Valjevo? Beatlemania is not over!

Opera singer Dragana del Monako speaks about her life and career.

In the copper mine of the industrial town Bor in Eastern Serbia, miners have been melting copper in the same manner for more than a century.

Documentary about the role of Austrians in war crimes committed against Serbian population during WW2.

Daughter, son and grandson share their memories of Miladin Djorovic, a former prisoner of the island of Goli Otok. The images archive (?) we discover the rural life of serbs.

Everything went on like any other boring night... Almost everything.

A man is trapped in a kind of parallel and weird universe. He is forced to accept "the real world" in order to become "normal" himself."The real world" is based on so-called "harmony" and he will try to change that.

A Serbian military ceremony in July 1911.

The film brings environmental awareness in children and shows the role of every individual in the planet-preserving.

A VHS video showing their gig performed in on December 24, 1999.

Following an old Balkan custom, Stana, raised as a boy from an early age, had to sacrifice her life as a woman, agreeing to become a man in the eyes of everyone in order to perpetuate her father's name without a male heir. In parallel, interviews with five young women in Belgrade - from bus driver to graffiti artist - reveal singular chosen paths. Are we free to shape our identities?

After the disruption of a minute of silence in honor of a fallen comrade in Ukraine, the High choir—made up of Lenin statues across the world—kicks out its northernmost member: a Lenin bust situated in an abandoned Soviet mining settlement in Svalbard. Devastated by this action, the lonely bust is in for yet another upset when a dog wanders into town.

Short experimental project.

Radovan IV is a "serious comedy" about the life of a man brought into the city, the apartment on the 12th floor, the skyscraper, which is actually "vertical street". From the homeland - villages, fields, forests ... woke up one day closer to heaven than earth. And there, like a bird without wings, trying to change her life, to adapt, to adjust, accept all that he has never been close, tormenting himself and all with whom he lives, repeatedly - in vain! Radovan is a story about people who were left stranded on the life of "country" and moved into an apartment (cage) a myriad of buildings, skyscrapers... on our densely populated planet

Film "Alma" is the result of working with young people in three communities (Novi Pazar, Sjenica, Prijepolje) and dealing with the subjects of gender, gender norms and gender-based violence. This animated film imposes the questions of oppressive gender patterns, through a symbolic depiction of specific prohibitions and desired behavior when it comes to women. The participants had an opportunity do conduct different types of intervention on the photographs of the actresses from the film, through drawing and coloring. That way, the young people were symbolically adding their views on how girls should look today and participating in their gender representation, just like the society does it through its agents of socialization in real life.

Footage of the devastating fire in Thessaloniki that took place in 1917. A Serbian Colonel called Mihailo Mihailović aka Mika Afrika captured the event.

Movie was conducted by interviewing 10 people who are talking about their coming out experience. Focus is on emotions these LGBT people had in their coming out process. Fear, anticipation, rejection, confusion, hugs.

Dejan is an ordinary guy living in post-communist country. But each time a Chinese delegation visit his country, he’s treated as public enemy: state security taps his phones and tails both him and his family. The reason is he’s practising Falun Gong. But what is Falun Gong? Why is it banned and persecuted in China and what is the connection with Serbia? By following the events on the margins of Chinese Summit held in Belgrade in 2014, when police unlawfully detained 11 Falun Gong activists, we discover a story. The activists were held to avoid spreading the truth about Falun Gong in China. Through their testimony in this film, as well as Dejan’s exclusive video materials, the truth is finally brought to the light of the day. It's the bitter truth about China and the whole world we live in.

The documentary Paper, Horse and Birds follows a day in the life of a Roma family, who collect secondary raw materials and live in Crvena zvezda, a part of the city of Niš. The film follows their activities – collection and division of scrap metal and waste paper, a family lunch and their everyday discussions, wihch helps us understand how they make ends meet and what their hardships are. Despite the de facto difficult financial situation, we see a complex family with solidarity and warm interpersonal relations. The storyline of the film has three aspects. The first is the documentary footage of a day in the life of the family. The second uses interviews with the family members to tell the story of the position of the Roma people, child labor and their exploitation. The third aspect shows

From here, you can see everything: the sea to the right, the mountains to the left, the sky in between.

Jovana has recently moved out of her family home to live alone. On a summer's day, she decides to make a surprise visit to her family. She arrives to find her mother down and depressed, and decides to take her out for a beer.

Thirty-five-year-old Stojan lives in a big city and has various jobs. He takes refuge from everyday life in an uncommon place.

Diary of a Serious Offender is a visual journey that takes us through Danilo’s life as he serves out his sentence, while the relationship with his girlfriend becomes strained. Danilo spends the summer shooting a video diary and overcoming his issues by maturing both emotionally and physically.

As a young couple are having a movie-night, a ghost from the girlfriends past comes back to haunt her.

In the heart of the Balkans, where making music is an integral part of life, meet Pera, a wonderful old farmer who seems to know everything about everything; Josip, inventor of numerous new instruments; and the amazing Vera, greatest leaf virtuoso of them all. Three musicians – a glimpse into the unknown, all– but – lost art of leaf playing. Filled with stunning music as vital yet as fragile as the perishable instrument on which it's played, this lovely film is as much about joy, living in the moment, being alive, as it is about making music. Seeing it, you may just want to go find some leaves – and make some music yourself.

Right Now Did My Time Thoughtless Falling Away From Me Coming Undone Bagpipe Interlude Helmet in the Bush Here to Stay Fake / One Freak on a Leash Y'All Want a Single Chi Somebody Someone Encore: Blind Got the Life Another Brick in the Wall.

At an evening acting school, while working on texts from Rumena Bužarovska’s collection My Husband, mature women share personal confessions. Through intimate dialogues, rich in humor, they deconstruct the legacy of war, patriarchy, and Hollywood romantic narratives. At the center is forty-year-old Andrea, who, nine years after her divorce, enters a new relationship, only for her fear of beauty to once again pull her back into old traumas.

Mother makes her son go to his grandmother, with whom they are not in good relations, to find out to whom she will give the apartment after her death.

A boy roams the pages of his childhood, torn between the borders of what was and whatever will be.

Like Noah's Ark, in Lapovo, in the Staro brdo asylum, two young people chose the path to save horses from the flood of human malice, recover them from abuse and prevent them from being taken to the slaughterhouse.

Documentary explores the life and works of one of Serbia’s most influential 20th-century writers, Aleksandar Tišma. From his upbringing during the World War II Tišma wanted to be a writer. He dedicated his life discovering real human nature through his literature.

A short history about brutalism architecture within Belgrade.

Title says it all.

A character-driven comedy series for pre-school children, following the character from the popular game Cut the Rope, a clumsy monster Nibble Nom.

Great Serbian scientist Michael Pupin was raised in a small village. As a shepherd, he encountered amazing natural phenomena, which led him to the world of natural science.

Two young men (one of whom cannot be trusted) are performing in a room, something feels very off.

This film captures the backbreaking process of packing and burning lime kilns, offering a look at a trade that is being pushed out by industrialization.

A philosophical exploration of Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulacra, questioning media consumption and the fading of human authenticity in the age of technology.

Documentary about Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra.

How to remember people from dreams like from last night, you know.

Documentary about the elite unit in the army of Republic Serbia during the Balkan Wars (1992-1996)

"The Highway of Blues" is a documentary about the history of the blues. The film is a part of the series "Music, love, passion... or more than that" signed by the RTS documentary program. Most of the film was shot on authentic locations in America, and the main protagonist in the role of narrator, is the frontman of the band Texas Flood, Nenad Zlatanovic.

Young girls' literary assignment found in the trash turned into an animated movie using other stuff people would throw in the trash.

A speculative fiction story depicting a young man's inner struggle through his attempts to authentically understand the world in which he happened to be, but to whom he does not belong. He finds affiliation and a safe place in thinking about the truth and our existence in the universe.

Made for amateur movie festival, film tells a story of regret and reconciliation in relationship between the two.

Even after 25 years since the death of Mitar Subotić Suba, his music colors every corner of the life of those who listen to it, his talent embellishes the thought that everything is possible, and his words and spirit encourage that everything we do has meaning.

A short film.

Tesa is an ordinary house dog, living with her owner Cristi. One day, she will disappear and start projecting images and thoughts of her own. She will become Tesaurus, an endemic species of a talking dog.

Sinister forces threaten to ruin the peaceful life of the young biologist Eugene.

An experimental road movie about main state road in the country and skill of posing.

We don't run fast - we want to reach far.. Our imperative is not an individual's victory - but a better community.. We do not want to overtake you - but to surpass ourselves.. Our results do not point out that we are better - but that you can do it as well.