Akademski filmski centar / Dom kulture studentski grad

In the summer of 2005 a sensation appeared on domestic social networks in the form of a blog titled “Maja in a brothel.” The author of this blog, whose nickname was “sexymaja”, identified herself as a girl from Belgrade, who has just started in the prostitution business. She soon became one of the most popular persona on the web, entertaining numerous readers with witty and provocative descriptions of the clients she had met. However, after her mysterious disappearance from the scene, suspicions were aroused about the identity of this person. The blog community points a finger at a ghostwriter, who was allegedly responsible for the entire conspiracy. He admits it, but without much hesitation also leads us to its inspiration – a girl who’s actually lived through it all.

In the form of an anthology film on psychiatric subject, it offers reflection on various situations that occur in the waiting rooms and hospitals of a psychiatric institution. Time flows differently there, the boundaries between mental health and mental illness are shifting, frustrations are emerging, which puts doctors and patients even.

The head of the family, Maksim Obad, has a problem with the authorities, because he betrayed a friend, which took Dimitrije to labor camp. Maksim’s life wish is to build a family tomb and to specify in his will that after his death half of the estate is sold and transferred to the family of his former friend and victim. This decision does not please his son and daughter-in-law, who are afraid that old Maksim's conscience will deprive them of their inheritance.

The symphony of hands “DV Essay in Three Digital Movements,“ dedicated to “VORKI,“ inspired by Vorkapic's concept on visual and sound film structure amalgamation. Visual material is presented by the Italian renaissance masters' works (to John Purcell's' music), Serbian medieval frescoes (to Stevan St. Mokranjac's music) and contemporary photographs (to Charles Mingus's music).

Experimental short film from Yugoslavia. A woman and a man are making out on a bed, when suddenly an odd fellow with a chandelier enters the room. Suspense grows as they have a drink together...

The director portrays her transsexual friend who gives her very special, unpretentious access. A very intimate view, that gets very close.

Bitter poetry of everyday life in the isolated hills of Eastern Bosnia shows the care and intimacy of the grannies, both in their mutual relations and in relationship with nature.

Sky Lines is a formalist film that evokes, via repetition and an extreme sound design, a death driven fear of nothingness, of the end of things. As formal sets of choreographed lines slowly dance across the screen, space and perception alter continuously and a sense of suspense and instability manifests itself. In Nadine Poulain’s film ‘Sky Lines’ the awful is not seen, but the sensational Lucifer is there nonetheless. He is waiting just around the corner for all of us. This is our anxiety; something Jacques Derrida has coined ‘Hauntology’.

16mm film by Radoslav Vladić.

A short experimental film.

An unknown film director is trying to make a documentary film about a transvestite. A transvestite commits suicide on camera. The film remains unfinished. The unknown film director still goes to the cinema for the premiere of his film.

A man sits in his rundown apartment and watches a TV. After he has eaten his fill, he leaves. Through a seemingly never-ending corridor, past houses which are reminiscent of war photography. He boards a train. Keeps on straying by foot through a dark, dystopian world. Does he even have a destination? Eventually, he meets a woman. The eponymous Bright Future is nowhere to be seen, but maybe something like love?

Near Čačak, in the village of Rošci on Kablar, there is a small population, mostly elderly, residing in the tavern called “Kod Odže”, where the spirit of the village is preserved. The tavern serves as a central gathering place and hub of activity, where its regular visitors exist and create art out of leisure. Time at “Kod Odže” has no definition or duration; it exists in the present moment and becomes unique in that way.

A lonely white flower grows surrounded by other plants and every day he struggles to survive.

After a bloody battle, mother is haunted by horrific death scenes of her nine sons and their father. Through her emotional journey and the oneiric imagery we follow her pain and sorrow as well as strength and heroism with which the mother endures her misfortune. Inspired by the motifs of the Serbian medieval poem “Death of Mother Jugovic.”

Fedja, drummer in a funeral orchestra is living with his son Nikola, drummer in a heavy metal band.

Short observations of one or more journeys, somebody's smile and a dog.

Somewhere in Yugoslavia, during the Cold War, on the eve of the nuclear threat, when the children fell asleep, the elders began their games in the "crazy sixties" ...

The story of first and last sexual experience.

A short experimental film.