INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA
Gospode, osećam prisustvo tvoje / God! I Feel Your Presence!
Russia / Dokumentary 2023. / 56′ 40”
Directed by
Nikolai Burlyayev, Dmitriy Chernetsov
Written and produced by
Nikolai Burlyayev
Production company
Zolotoy Vityaz
A multi-layered film about the poetics of Andrei Tarkovsky and the origins of his spiritual and religious mind. It combines classic scenes from Tarkovsky's films with contemporary images of former film sets and surviving heroes. The film sublimates Tarkovsky's diaries with archival and documentary footage and the auteur's memory of his collaboration with one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema. This film, filmed on the 90th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest Russian and world filmmakers, guides the viewer through the life and work of the film genius, for whom the famous Ingmar Bergman said that his films changed his vision.
Belgrade premiere
Nikolai Burlyayev
A Soviet and Russian actor and film director. Born into a family of actors, he started his career in film and theatre when he was still a child. He majored in acting at the Shchukin Theater School in Moscow, graduating in 1967. Burlyayev is a Film Directors' Faculty of VGIK graduate, where he studied under Mikhail Romm and Lev Kulidzhanov.] His film acting debut was the lead in Andrei Konchalovsky's short film "The Boy and the Dove" (1960). Best known for his title role in Andrei Tarkovsky's "Ivan's Childhood" (1962). He worked with Tarkovsky again four years later as Borishka in "Andrei Rublev". His films include "Wartime Romance" (1983) and "Lermontov" (1986), where he played the lead. In 1991, Burlyayev founded the annual "Zolotoi Vityaz" (Golden Knight) Moscow Film Festival of Slavic and Orthodox Peoples and still is its Director. Since 1996, he has been the founder and chairman of the International Association of Cinematographers of Slavic and Orthodox Peoples.
Documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, Head of the Vologda Government of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. Born in 1968 in Vologda. In 1990 he graduated from the cameraman's department of VGIK. Started his cinematographic activity as a cameraman in Dmitry Polovnikov's films. His film "Dionysius" was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation and the Grand Prix of the VIII International Festival "Radonezh" (2002), and "Poet Nikolai Rubtsov" received the Grand Prix at XVI International Film Festival "Golden Knight" (2007). The film "Canceled the War", created in co- authorship with Nikolai Burlyaev, received the main prizes of the XVI International Film Festival "Radiant Angel" (2019). The film "One Is Not a Warrior in the Field" was awarded the Grand Prix of the XXXI "Golden Knight" Festival (2022), the Special Prize of the President of the XXXIII Documentary Film "Russia" (2022) and a diploma of the XVIII "Eternal Bell" Film Festival (2022).
Čudo u Gulspangu /The Gullspång Miracle
Documentary / Sweden, Norway, Denmark
2023. / 108’
Directed by
Maria Frederiksson
Produced by
Ina Holmqvist
Production company
Ballad Film
Serbian premiere
A divine premonition leads two sisters to buy an apartment in the small Swedish town of Gullspång. To their surprise, the seller looks identical to their older sister, who died by suicide 30 years earlier. What begins as an eerie family reunification story soon becomes a Pandora's Box as all three women's lives spiral out of control.
Maria Frederiksson
Finished Master of Fine Arts degree at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2012. She has also studied film directing at the New York Film Academy. Has made several short documentaries that have screened at international film festivals such as Hot Docs, Visions du Réel, Sheffield DocFest and Palm Springs. One of the founders of the all-female production company Ballad Film. This is her debut feature film, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2023.
Rika jelena / Deer Bell
Documentary / Hungary
2023. / 12’ 42’’
Written, directed and produced by
Edit Jakab
Cast
The Radics Family
Executive production
Béla Tarr
A short documentary made during Béla Tarr’s Masterclass. The film follows a day in the life of a Roma family in rural Hungary. Its focus is the children who are raised by their grandparents. From morning until the sun goes down, and a new day begins. And life goes on just the same .
Serbian premiere
Edit Jakab
Currently Budapest-based filmmaker and professor. Her award-winning films have been screened at 80+ film festivals around the world, including Female Eye, Oxford, Los Angeles Short Film Festival, Dumbo Film Festival and Prvi Kadar in Sarajevo. She has so far received 27 awards. Jakab is an Associate Professor at Károli Gáspár University, where she teaches screenwriting, filmmaking, media analysis and linguistics in the Communication and Media Sciences Department. She is in the process of getting together the funds for her first feature, whose working title is „Rootless“.