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.

The story of first and last sexual experience.

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.

A short experimental film.

Fragile trust between people and vampires has come to the end. Ancient thousand year's war continues...She is the chosen one and she will fight till the last drop of blood.

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.

Film consists of shots of Belgrade Zoo, animals inside it, and the medieval fortress it was built within. Features a bizarre soundtrack of experimental music. It also features cinematography by Ratko Vladic, famous Serbian cinematographer.

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 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.

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" ...

Short experimental film.

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.

Adaptation of the Serbian folk fairytale. The story about a boy, a dragon, a woman and a invisible winged friend.

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?

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.

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).

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.

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.”

A short experimental film.

A film by Igor Toholj.