NATIONAL PANORAMA
Film selection: Documentary Film and Television Forms Festival Grafest
Founded in 2011 to present contemporary Serbian and world productions to the audience in Kosovo and Metohija and stimulate local television producers to shape contemporary Kosovo-Metohija reality in a similar way. The Festival aims to encourage creative documentary production, directly influence local auteurs and production media houses, and create a film audience through quality screenings of carefully selected films. The Grafest Festival is a measure of the auteurs' creativity, testimony, professionalism, learning, and personal progress. Without them, the image, feeling, time, atmosphere, conflicts, and life between the divided worlds of Kosovo and Metohija would remain largely empty and incomplete.
And the River Istok Flows
2023. / 30’ 40’’
Written, directed and produced by: Jelena Radenović
Production company: Špica
The Oar Story: Salute to the Poet
2020. / 30’ 14’’
Written, directed and produced by: Rastko Šejić
Produkcijska kuća: Šta hoćeš
Despite Everything
2020. / 50’ 43’’
Written and directed by: Goran Avramović
Production: Isak Vorgučić
Production company: RTV KiM, Klicker production
Rebel With A Cause: Nikola Stojanović (1942 – 2021)
Documentary / 2024. / 103’
Written and directed by: Srđan Stojanović
Production: Sveta Strahinić
Production company: Film i ton
The life and films of the recently deceased Nikola Stojanović, a graduate architect who directed five feature films (“The Golden Apple”, “Last Waltz in Sarajevo”), a significant number of short films (“In the Kitchen”, “The End of the Millennium”), and also founded and edited the legendary film magazine Sineast. His PhD thesis was titled “Directed By: Akira Kurosawa”. Collaborated with the most prominent actors of Tito's Yugoslavia (Petar Božović, Predrag Ejdus, Mira Furlan, Radmila Živković and many others) and won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Martovski Festival.
World premiere
Private archive
Srđan Stojanović
Born in 1971 in Belgrade. Screenwriter and director. At the age of fourteen, he started working in films. Directed three feature films: “Progressive Paranoia” (1999), “Trilling” (2005), and “Twist” (2012), as well as a large number of short films.
Atacama Desert Run
Documentary / 2024. / 96’
Directed by: Galeb Nikačević Hasci-Jare
Production: Sandra Planojević Hasci-Jare
Production company: Agelast Production
In late November 2023, the Belgrade Urban Running Team from Serbia participated in The Speed Project, a 500 km relay race in Atacama, Chile, the driest desert in the world, deep in the Andes. They reached the finish line in less than 35 hours, won first place, and broke the record for this harsh course. That area is known as the "Road to the End of the World" (Ruta del fin del mundo) and is the southernmost point of Latin America. In addition to the altitude of up to 3400 m, it is specific by temperature differences of over 30 degrees during the day, winds, sand and dust. The Agelast Production team followed them in this, physically and mentally, the biggest challenge so far – for the runners and the production itself. The result is this film.
Festival premiere
PROMO
Galeb Nikačević Hasci-Jare
Journalist, TV personality and podcaster. Studied literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. Started his career in late 2000 on TV Metropolis. Wrote reports and music criticism for the printed editions of "TimeOut" and "Huper" magazines. Worked with film productions on minor film roles and with private productions that dealt with advertisements. The first person from Serbia to appear on MTV, where he worked from 2005 to 2010. From 2012 to 2014, he was one of the Belgrade Youth Center program editors. In 2014, he started working for VICE Media as a journalist, culture editor, creative editor and author of dozens of documentaries. In September 2019, he moved to "Ringier Axel Springer" to the position of editor-in-chief of the "NOIZZ" portal. Since January 2020, he has entirely devoted himself to his production, "Agelast Production", which produces the largest regional podcast "Agelast", "Agelast Sessions" (promoting regional original music), as well as the documentary formats "Tamo Daleko" and "New Balkan Cuisine".
Pigeon Food
Short fiction / 2024. / 28’
Written and directed by: Milica Spasojević
Cast: Žarko Laušević, Luka Grbić, Nenad Maričić
Production company: Fakultet dramskih umetnosti, Beograd
Performing a daily ritual, Zoki, a retired PE teacher, meets Dejan, a boy with a big problem. Zoran will recognize himself in Dejan and have a reason to use his hard-earned knowledge. Dejan will get everything he didn't know he needed.
Regional premiere
Filip Stojanović
Milica Spasojević
Born in 1998. Obtained BA in 2022 at FDU, department of FTV directing, and continued her master's studies in audiovisual arts at the same faculty. During the 2022/23 school year, she directed the short film "Nimble Happy" and the short experimental film "Wire" in 2017. She also directed five student films: "My Door is Always Open to You" (2018), "The Noble Art of Forgetting" (2019), "Working Title" (2020), "Animus" (2022), "On the Other Side of the Rainbow" (2022, short documentary), "Pigeon Food" (2024) and "Aunt" (2024).
SERBIAN ANIMATED FILM 6 (2000–2006)
Published by Martovski Festival and Yugoslav Film Archives, under patronage of The City of Belgrade
Editors-in-Chief, film selection Božidar Zečević, Rastko Ćirić
Edition supervisor Nenad Popović
After the dark decade of the nineties in Serbia, the end of the year 2000 was marked by a major political upheaval and the change of political concept. With the sudden death of Veljko Bikić, Serbian animation lost the ambitious Veljko Bikić Studio. The Dunav Film continues with the Dunav Film School that would last until 2006 – the year when this film company went out of business.
This very edition covers the 2000–2006 period, presenting the “golden age” of the Dunav Film School, the continuation of opuses of veterans of Serbian animation, the first successful works from the Faculty of Applied Arts, and the open door for the first longer animated films in Serbia.
- ON THE BRIDGE (Dunav film, FPU) / Nikola Vitković / 2:06 / 2000.
- EVERYTHING STOPS ONLY CHILDREN GROW (Punkt) / Andreja Leko / 2:31 / 2000
- BREAD (Dunav film) / Jelena Bešir / 3:49 / 2002
- SHADOW AND ITS MAN (Dunav film) / Marija Milanović / 5:36 / 2002.
- A LITTLE HOUSE (Dunav film) / Iva Ćirić / 1:18 / 2003
- TOONTZ / Katarina O’Hearn / 3:47 / 2004
- CLAY PIGEON / Miloš Tomić, Marija Đorđević / 2:00 / 2003
- MIRROR (DK Studentski Grad) / Jelena Bešir / 8:00 / 2005
- PRINCESS ON THE WALL (Iva Ćirić & BS Group) / Iva Ćirić / 8:00 / 2005
- METAMORPH (Rastko Ćirić & BS Group, Beograd) / Rastko Ćirić / 11:00 / 2005
- RUST IN PEACE / Aleksa Gajić / 3:20 / 2005
- NAIVE STORY (Montage) / Marija Milanović Lazarevski / 7:24 / 2006
- LEFTOVERS (A. Mladenović) / Igor Ćorić / 6:03 / 2006
- SENSATION / Nikola Vulović / 4:00 / 2006
DURATION 75 min
