
Winner of the Grand Prix at the 1978 Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, this is one of the finest examples of ethnographic film from this region.
Winner of the Grand Prix at the 1978 Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, this is one of the finest examples of ethnographic film from this region.
Nikolić is one of foremost film artists of Yugoslavia. His connection to Montenegro, its people and traditions, was expressed in many remarkable feature films and short documentaries.
One of those cinematic pearls that do not age. It celebrates man’s work, strength and skill. At the same time, it is an oblique comment on society and the situation of the working class.
The idyllic Yugoslav Riviera. A large, empty terrace overlooking the blue Adriatic. A man with a glass of wine. Haunting, riotous voices of the masses end the peace. The mythological, unconditional peace is disturbed.
Student protest, declarations of solidarity, police violence, in Belgrade like everywhere else; but here they are part of the struggle for a better socialism.
Old cinema creates new cinema in a new context. Stolen old images, someone’s audio track, someone else’s soundscapes – they re-create, reinventing interactions, relations and dialogue in familiar footage.
This balladic, powerful documentary, winner of a prize at the Leipzig documentary festival 1979 and a Grand Prix at Oberhausen, depicts the specific characteristics of a Roma community.
While a man is reading a horror novel his flat comes to life.
This film on “gastarbeiter” who chose to leave communist Yugoslavia and go to work in Germany, is socially and politically significant.
The Yugoslavian workers who emigrated in droves are a bargaining chip between the South-East and the North-West – a chip with hearts, brains, faces and voices.
One of the top directors of Yugoslavian cinema, provocative, lucid, brave and with a great sense of humour, introduces us to the old inhabitants of a village, those who have many intriguing stories to share.
What is often discussed nowadays, the thin line between fiction and documentary, was taken for granted 40 years ago … Xenia is a young choreographer who brought modern dance to Yugoslavia in the 1970s.