2018
Vancouver Serbian FilmFest 2018.
Santa Maria Della Salute
The film narrates a tormented love story between one of the most famous poets of Serbian literature, Laza Kostic, renowned for his sublime poetic puns and word coining and an enchanting young girl by the name of Lenka Dundjerski, an educated and refined daughter of a landowner Lazar Dundjerski. Standing in the way of their love is the insurmountable age gap between the two, as Kostic is 29 years older than his beloved one. The affair inspired one of the most sophisticated and tender love poems of the time, an utmost expression of yearning, in which the poet’s unflinching devotion is linked to his admiration for a Venice basilisk by the name of Santa Maria della Salute.
The Final Adventure of the Cactus Kid - Documentary
Aleksandar Zograf, a renowned cartoonist discovers an unusual comic book from World War II. The comic’s hero is Cactus Kid – a small cactus trapped in his pot. Intrigued, Zograf investigates into the life of Cactus Kid’s creator – little known artist Veljko Kockar. He soon discovers that Kockar was arrested just after the liberation of Belgrade in 1944.He was charged for being a Gestapo agent and executed.
Nowhere
Natasha, Tubby and Antoine are three inseparable friends about to finish secondary school in Belgrade. Their friendship is on the borderline between friendship and love. On the night Tamara is born, Antoine is captured and taken to the war that is not his. After the war, they decide, upon Natasa's insisting, to leave the country. They choose Sweden, and Tubby takes care of the visas.
The Other Side of Everything - Documentary
A locked door inside a Belgrade apartment has kept one family separated from their past for over 70 years. As the filmmaker begins an intimate conversation with her mother, the political fault line running through their home reveals a house and a country haunted by history. The chronicle of a family in Serbia turns into a searing portrait of an activist in times of great turmoil, questioning the responsibility of each generation to fight for their future.
Out of the Woods
Out of the Woods is a black comedy about a particular woman in a particular country. Stojanka (62) lives in a small village in Banat, on the edge of the Deliblato Sands. As with all her compatriots, her circumstances are wretched – a daily struggle to scrape out an existence and an even worse struggle to make sense of such a life.
Tesla Nation
We are all one.
Tomorrow is a New Day
This is a story about young people over thirty who graduated, but haven’t formed families and don’t have steady jobs. They are still searching for themselves and “their place” in the world… Trapped between the youth that escapes them and the adulthood, our characters are trying to redefine their friendships and romantic affairs and to figure out “what’s next”. Using the struggle with the life challenges of a generation, the series tries to represent the spirit of Belgrade today. It speaks about those who live in it, who are leaving it, but also about those who return to this city...
