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Browse 60 movies from Akademski filmski centar / Dom kulture studentski grad
After recent political changes in Serbia, many streets in Belgrade named after persons and events of the World War II, changed their names. The film depicts the work of the Street and Squares Commission, appointed by the city of Belgrade, as well as reactions of individuals and groups impacted by recent changes.
Apr 2009
The film is about Serbia during the transition. Kruška (Milutin Jeremić), a delinquent and an orphan, after escaping from the correctional facility in Kruševac returns to his old neighborhood - Čubura. He lives with his friend Bata (Jovana Trojanović) and her older brother Pit (Oliver Conić), a failed boxer, who in the meantime has become a petty dealer and drug addict. Pete has problems due to debts to his suppliers, but also heroin addiction. He directly involves Kruška and his younger sister in his problem.
Jun 2009
A short experimental film.
Jan 2018
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.
Jul 2015
A film by Igor Toholj.
Jan 2000
Jan 2014
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?
Nov 2014
A lonely white flower grows surrounded by other plants and every day he struggles to survive.
Jul 2019
Contemporary urban melodrama about three young couples who experience emotional crises and turning points in their relationships due to the circumstances in which they find themselves. The earthquake connects three stories in the same city in a cathartic way.
Dec 2005
Jan 2023
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.
Jan 1988
Moonlight is an experimental film. It was made by playing with different video techniques, which synthesised with the music, capture the dance of the moon and the night shaddows on the path where they meet and touch in the process of cosmic blending.
Jan 2005
Fedja, drummer in a funeral orchestra is living with his son Nikola, drummer in a heavy metal band.
Jun 2008
A futuristic fairy tale about balance in nature. The girl has a hobby of collecting insects. One night a romantic visitor shows up. By engaging in a harmless romance, in which a twist occurs, the girl experiences a fatal fate.
Jan 2016
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).
Mar 2007
The film uses an alternative shooting method, the so-called staring camera, two years before the same method used by Andy Warhol and two years before the use of similar methods at the GEFF in Zagreb. The tape is connected in a circle, like an endless tape.
May 1961
Short film about heroic female dog of Sergei Yesenin.
Jan 2012
Based on 9.5 mm found footage filmed by a Belgrade cine amateur between the two world wars, this film looks into the private family archive as a reflection of Yugoslav history. Following the life of his family in the country that was rebuilt and disappeared again, it confirms the words of Claude Simon that "although it repeats itself - history should be repeated by every individual in his generation".
Jan 2022
A man is trapped in a kind of parallel and weird universe. He is forced to accept "the real world" in order to become "normal" himself."The real world" is based on so-called "harmony" and he will try to change that.
Oct 2019
Adaptation of the Serbian folk fairytale. The story about a boy, a dragon, a woman and a invisible winged friend.
Jan 2008