
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.
A personal summer travelogue through non-personal memories, collective personal ideals, and personal collective collectives. An old, once-upon-a-time country, reborn and undone in the blink of an eye.
“On (your) road made of flowers and sun, in a garden of gentle lovers, an eternal song remains …” In the life of a man who cherishes the sun, the garden and this song.
In this cinema vérité film without words, the Bosnian director follows an ordinary workers’ day. Their job ultimately shapes the destiny of thousands who are still waiting to bury their loved ones murdered in the last war.
Coming from the Balkans, this imaginative animation deals quite philosophically with the war and its impact on young people who were forced to join the army.
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.
Observing tourists from all over the world who come to his home on the Dalmatian coast, Poljak, known as a DOP in feature as well as documentary films, managed to produce an exciting study.
This charming, skillfully directed saga of an old fashioned provincial matchmaker has been tremendously successful in regional cinemas.
An encounter that might make a teenage girl’s dreams come true. Poetic and observant, this short documentary follows the life of refugees.
The grief of a mother who lost her son to a sniper narrated through the portrait of the operator of a legendary Sarajevo cinema that served as an air-raid shelter during the war.
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.
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.
This talented director, although from a younger generation of filmmakers, follows the old tradition of making short, expressive films without words, visually strong and socially meaningful.
The anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide is attended by thousands every year.