Discoveries from Serbia World Cinema

Jelena and Milan are going to the mountain house for a weekend. Milan disappears. Jelena starts looking for him and gets lost in the woods.

Dagi is a famous actor, but a heavy drinker. At one point his condition becomes critical and he ends up in the hospital where he is diagnosed with delirium tremens. Having lost sensation in his limbs, incapable of grasping what is happening around him, imagination plays tricks on him, and as he falls into delirium he finds himself in surreal situations. Once he comes round, he realizes that his life has been ruined and attempts suicide. Saved at the last moment, Dagi remains in the hospital overcome with apathy. However, things change when Lisa, a therapist from England, appears with a revolutionary new method of therapy for severely affected patients known as - psychodrama.

Boško Pavlović is an intelligent, educated, careful, romantic young man whom women find magically attractive. But, things take a bad turn for him when he carelessly gets involved with the sister of a powerful Serbian tycoon and she commits suicide. Wishing to avenge his sister, the tycoon sends two extremely dangerous goons to find and punish Boško. Inspector Gavrić also searches for him, since he is the policeman in charge of the case.

The story follows five girls in their thirties, close friends from childhood. They grew up in the suburbs, sharing every moment of growing up. As life often does, their interests took them in different directions, and their friendship suffered consequences. However, after a long time, they get together on the occasion of the wedding of one of them.

Johnny Racković - Belgrade writer and artist, faced with the fact that he lost his mother, and then almost his own life, transforms into an animated hero from hell who is searching for his own sanity. The moment he begins to see the rules of transformation, the perspective of the whole story changes. And that new perspective will reveal to him that the whole world is threatened by the outbreak of a general plague and that he has become... KING OF NOTHING.

U.S Agent Miloš is sent by agent Victor because weird things has started happening in Belgrade.

A middle-aged man invites his young colleague for Christmas. Hilarious situations follow as they both have different opinions on how to celebrate the holiday.

Documentary, black and white.

Vera is a young woman in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia who gets entangled in the WW2 spy network and also in the patriarchal society full of powerful, arrogant men with whom she deals bravely and arrogantly.

A contemporary historical film reflecting the drama of the profound social changes that the Serbian society underwent at the turn of this century. The story is delivered through an account of the development of the local ambulance service. Adhering to the spirit of modern neo-realism, this evolution is illustrated by three stories set in three different periods linked by mutually connected and conditioned characters; and there is also a dream of what it could be!

On the 1991 European Basketball Championship an incredible event occured. A team of some of the greatest Balkan basketball stars accepted gold and watched the flag of their country be lifted up. The flag of a country that no longer existed.

The story of the film follows Lazar, who, after a number of years spent as a traveling street artist, playing motionless sculpture, found himself on a small Mediterranean island. He longs to return home, but his departure from the island is complicated by the island bureacracy.

Merowe Dam in North Sudan. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the desert to erect a mysterious construction made of mud. Despite a disturbing wound in his lower back that seems to be eating away at his skin, he continues his labor day after day. While the Sudanese people rise to claim their freedom, his mud creation starts slowly to take a life of its own.

Wanting to grow up, Magdalena (17) meets 10 year older Peter. She falls in love, while Peter hides his true face. To pay off his debts to Divna, landlady of a striptease club, through manipulation and false love he drags Magdalena into a vicious drug dealing chain, the same way he was dragged when he was just a kid in love. Magdalena, aware that she has become his slave, manages to get stronger and reports him to the police. That night, the violence will be stopped by a sudden guest in the police service.

A Bromantic Comedy about Bonding, Betting, and Belgrade. While waiting for the end of the football match they were betting on, three best friends unexpectedly put their long-term friendship at stake. BULAE, PIXIE, and PAUN (Peacock) are long-time friends living in Belgrade. They are very different in character but share one common passion - betting on all the English football leagues' match results. This time, for them, betting is more than a game because all three men desperately need money. During just one halftime, swinging from comedy to drama and back, this war of nerves brings to the surface all the dirty laundry of their relationship. Only one result will change their lives forever and put their thirty-year friendship at stake.

Unscrupulous managers, somewhat violent hunters, an Italian girl, a Partizan football star and his brother-in-law who is a supporter of Red Star, are met by a force of opportunity during the derby.

The film is set in a Serbian prison, in the love rooms, where prisoners are allowed to have intimate relations with their married and extramarital partners, who come to visit them.

This is the story about Todor, hardworking and ambitious student. He lives with his mother in very modest life. But, in a strange way, seemingly by accident, Visnja appears, desperate, pregnant girl who needs help and protection.

An angsty teen organizes his grandma's funeral upon realizing that it could be a way to win his crush's heart.

This is a story of a 17-year-old boy named Hari Rai, who lives in a small village in the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal, and his extraordinary journey. Hari is a student. However, he also works as a porter so that he could pay for his tuition and cover his living expenses. Although very young, he already has three years of experience carrying loads up and down the mountain, mostly tourists' backpacks. This time, he gets a job to carry a huge red refrigerator from the top of the mountain, to the nearest town. We follow Hari Rai on his journey through the fascinating Himalayan landscapes, we discover Hari’s inner life, his thoughts, hopes and dreams and we also get to know the culture and the local people’s way of life in this region.

Kristina is a transgender sex worker in Serbia. She plays herself in an eponymous film that portrays her daily life with reticence in accordance with the rules of fiction. We’re in Kristina’s home with her. With camp elegance, she contentedly arranges ikebana in the luxuriant, baroque shade of her garden. The surprisingly shrill ringtone of her telephone disrupts the idyllic scene and Kristina reels off the prices of her services to the caller. Tracing an inner journey in the secret calm of churches and forests, the film also opens up a space of confession in its core, in frontal shots where Kristina tells her story. It does not, however, follow the path of repentance. On the contrary, it asserts the profound freedom of a modern woman, captured majestically in a bold portrait with strokes inspired by iconostases that tend towards the divine.

Dusan and Laza are traveling through Eastern Serbia to Belgrade. Terminally ill, Dusan has to find a new home for his son Laza, to whom Dusan is all he has.

The main character returns from the prison with a desire to build a normal relationship with his, now, adult daughter who didn't have a father for a long period of her life. When he comes home sees that the daughter ran away from home and that his wife is cheating on him with a friend who also moved into the apartment. Armed with a sarcastic sense of humor he accepts all that and starts searching for his daughter, whom, by the way, does not want to be found.

A documentary about bizarre residents of Shutka, a Macedonian village built on the former city dump area. Shutka, where everyone is the champion of something. This film is a celebration of the culture, humor, spirit, oddities and idiosyncrasies of the Roma, one of the world's poorest and most persecuted peoples. Ultimately we are instructed in the celebration of life despite any and all circumstances - everyone is of value here.

The story of the Yugoslav warship Drava and its journey during World War II.

The film is conceived as a video game where every link in society, from the highest to the lowest has its role in creating the perfect vision of fraud, not knowing who cheats, and who is deceived.

Within this labyrinth of US highways, 4 million trucks traverse vast landscapes, carrying 10.5 billion tons of freight annually. A substantial proportion of these drivers are immigrants, including both legal and undocumented individuals. Confined to truck cabins for years, they face limited prospects of deeper integration into American society, often remaining within their ethnic bubbles. When envisioning a trucker burning rubber up and down the US highways, our three protagonists are far from the typical image that might come to mind. Still in the prime of life, an actress, a painter, and an engineer left everything behind to spend their lives behind the wheel of a truck in search of the elusive American dream.

A fugitive Air Force general kidnaps a famous movie actress.

The story of the Yugoslavian football team who became youth world champions in Chile, 1987.

During the bombing of Serbia in 1999, the painter Aleksandar fled with his wife and child to his native village to escape the bombing. It happens that his child unexpectedly falls ill and the only option is treatment abroad, which is currently not possible due to the embargo.

A young woman and a young man meet in Istanbul. They both lack the money to live in the foreign city and they are both deaf. They connect, spend time together and do what young people always do – party carelessly and seek intimacy. They feel they are in love. But all is not quite as it seems. She’s from Ukraine, he’s from Russia, and there’s a war going on somewhere back home.

In a city owned by local television owner Dragan Zlokovic-Zli, books and culture are banned. The mysterious narrator - Senka, hires three private detectives to overthrow Zlokovic from the media.

Who will finish the academy, and who will quit? What relationship will survive, and what will fade away? Young cadets have a lot in their lives - ambitions, careers, problems and happy endings.

"Barbarians" is a teenage drama about coming of age in a world where there is no opportunity. A portrait of a young generation growing up in a society of lost values.

A story about rich lady who invites a poor fellow to her house with intentions to marry him. He accepts her offer, yet it soon proves that the reason were his high debts, as well as prostitute he's secretly seeing. The story becomes more complex when the lady starts an affair with their gardener.

When aliens attack a turbo-folk festival in Stepojevac, Boban Zdravkovic, having narrowly escaped the massacre, sets out on a mission of revenge for his friend Saban Saulic and the other fallen singers. With the help of the prophet Sasa Matic, Sejo Kalac, and a secret teleporter, Boban travels through time to prevent the catastrophe. In a comically epic battle between peasants and singers against an alien threat, the fate of turbo-folk lies in Boban's hands — but at what cost?

The plot of this television movie is located in Belgrade, the hometown of screenwriter Velimir Lukic, in the 1960s. It was the time of the party discipline, in which the free thinking and free behavior of individuals meant heresy. This is a drama about political showdown, about the metamorphosis of high-level intellectuals ready to do anything to defy the authorities and retain their privileges. At the same time - this is also a love story that, under the political circumstances that accompany it, is misused precisely because of those well-known higher goals.

At the beginning of Sumadijska street in the vicinity of Slavija Square on the 11th August 1913, the Serbian victorious army from the Second Balkan War led by the Crown Prince Alexander Karadjordjevic was given a huge welcome by the highest military and political authorities of Serbia and Belgrade, representatives of civil organizations and national institutions, as well as several tens of thousands of people from Belgrade, Serbia and Vojvodina.

A group of young men whose lack of prospects in their own society decide to change their image and way of life. They realize that taking action is the only thing that fulfills and satisfies them. They begin to hand out flyers, upload video clips on the Internet and spray-paint graffiti all over the city. They call on the youth to rebel, to change their lives and to awaken from the slumber they were in.

The documentary film which brings exclusive testimonies of four students who survived brutal attacks during protests in Serbia.

A young architect starts to receive letters addressed to the previous owner of the apartment he’s renting, and neighbours start to complain to noice he’s making at night, even though he knows he is very quiet. He has very disturbing dreams about a man being in this house while he is asleep.

This simple story shows how a spoiled girl from a rich Belgrade family at the beginning of the 20th century, despite her habits and upbringing, experienced a change and stepped into the real world on Easter, thanks to an unusual event, as well as her pure childish heart.

One guy was robbed overnight by some robbers. Among other things, they also took away his memory. He earned anterograde amnesia and since then he is fighting with himself and with his split personality by closing himself into one room.

Blue Train is Serbian atipic teenage comedy. Just before Tito's death a high school graduates in Belgrade live their normal life before the end of the school year. Spring is relaxed and they organize the election "Princess Of Spring" for the most beautiful girl in school. Vojislav is in love with Anica, friend from class. While his best friend, convinces him that the organization of the miss elections is the best way to win Anica's heart. Milena has crush in Vojislav, and she want to spoil his plan. After the death of professor of Marxism, in the school comes a new, very young and ambitious professor Božičković, a former pupil of the school. His charm and informal dress manages to win the sympathy of students, especially girls. Professor Božičković like Anica, and he shows that in front of the class. Anica and Vojislav do not appritiate that.

An absurdist fable set in the numerous parallel realities of late-1990s Serbia. As a family disintegrates, Szabolcs Tolnai’s film effortlessly combines melancholic ruminations on middle age with dollops of unlikely colour, rejuvenation and invisible art projects.

A thief beginner, his dangerous accomplice and one poorly chosen victim - this will be a wonderful day for everyone.

As an attempt of robbery goes wrong, Sale is left with little choice.

A man wakes up in a square of an unknown city again and again, after each failed attempt to escape four masked assassins. Through the never ending chase, he tries to recover his identity, and find out who set him up.

Luxurious Danube river cruiser "Kriemhild", on a 2 day tour from Vienna to Belgrade. The ship "Kriemhild" is a floating sin city. Exhausted, unhappy, frustrated people from western Europe come here to "relax" and conduct business with alcohol, entertainment and sex. The crew of the "Kriemhild" are young people from eastern Europe who are trying to earn enough money to escape their small insignificant lives. That one night on this ship will shuffle the hands of fate of both the passengers and the crew of the ship. Prejudices, stereotypes and lack of communication between men and women, people of different religions, nationalities and social statutes will lead to absurd and, at times, dangerous situations, all colored with elements of dark humor. The night will unveil pain and tears, happiness and laughter.

"Lessons of Love" (Časovi ljubavi) is a documentary film that explores the phenomenon of the Partizan Basketball Club, focusing on its unique training system, family-like atmosphere, and the unbreakable bond between the team and its devoted fans. Through interviews with legendary coach Duško Vujošević and players like Dušan Kecman and Predrag Danilović, the film depicts how top-tier sports results and a deep emotional community are built despite financial struggles.

A tale of victory of humanism over revenge motif. Amir Reko (nicknamed "Macedonian", but actually Bosnian Muslim by ethnicity), the ex-captain of Yugoslav People's Army, saved lives of 44 Serb civilians during the siege of Gorazde in 1992. He went through personal and professional temptation during the war, while plenty of other officers ended up in Hague or other international criminal courts across Europe.

A surreal satire about a philosophy student who takes a job as a gravedigger while suffering an existential crisis.

Through an intimate reconstruction of an important phone call, When The Phone Rang investigates dislocation and the nature of remembering. In the protagonist's eleven year old mind the phone call erases her entire country, history and identity and hides its existence in books, films and memories of those born before 1995.

While being escorted to a mysteriously irradiated site, a scientist experiences strange visions.

1st STORY: The Waiting Room. Vanja and Dara, women of the middle-age, from different social status, met in the hall of the waiting room of a hospital, waiting to be called to prepare for abortion. This unexpected meeting will start a lot of questions in their mind, and make them reconsider their decision. 2nd STORY: The Road. A country, somewhere in Serbia: mother is taking her daughter, along the road, to the doctor who lives alone in a wagon, in which he makes illegal abortions. All over that journey there is collision between mother's traditional attitude against pregnancy before marriage and daughter's youthful wish for a birth of a new life from love. 3rd STORY: Water. Nada, a young woman in late twenties, remembered in a prison cell, the tragical events which made her kill her husband. In the hospital, where she was taken by a police car, for making abortion of his child, she met a person, who she didn't expect to meet.

An omnibus film on children's rights and the problems that the youngest members of our society have to face. Each story tackles a specific theme and has its own hero.

The story of the Serbian army, led by the King Peter, through the World War I.

Full stop! is an experimental film that uses symbolic gestures of a high school student to explore daily life and broader social issues, particularly the responsibility of public officials for the tragedy that occurred on November 1, 2024, at the Novi Sad Railway Station. The main character of the film is not a person, but an ordinary pencil, which becomes a symbol of the everyday actions and inner struggles of a young person growing up in a system of deeply corrupted values. The pencil leaves a mark of our thoughts, aspirations, and reality. Its smallest trace is a dot, a full stop. However, to come to a full stop with injustice is a necessary and at the same time a great act.

This documentary was inspired by the artistic life of Serbian actress Sonja Savić. Being a wonder child, a star of Yugoslavian cinematography, a sex symbol, and urban legend of the eighties generation, a fighter against establishment, Sonja Savić had always attracted attention. Simply put, she always looked, spoke and thought differently from others, she was entirely autonomous, an authentic phenomenon of Serbian culture. In the documentary SONJA, friends and colleagues of Sonja Savić testify on many aspects of her life and work, and a special emphasis is put on Sonja’s libertarian, rebellious, Don Quixote type of nature.