Milica Tomović (1986, SFRY) graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in 2011 with the omnibus film “October”, which she made together with her classmates. The film was shown in Cottbus, Trieste, Sofia Film Meetings, Isola Cinema and others. In 2016, her short film “Transition” had its international film premiere in Locarno (Pardi di domani), followed immediately by a premiere in […]
In my view, the best definition of what has been happening to us in terms of the general situation in our society, particularly when it comes to the issue of violence against women, was provided by Adrijana Zaharijević who described 2021 in the following manner, “This entire year fits between the hashtags #nisisama and #nisamprijavila (Eng. #youarenotalone[…]
Beginning in 1992, the Yugoslav Army sieged the city of Sarajevo for more than three years. Faced with violence and hardship, the citizens of Sarajevo filmed their lives and experiences during the war. Director: Sead Kreševljaković, Nihad Kreševljaković, Nedim Alikadić Screenwriter: Sead Kreševljaković, Nihad Kreševljaković Music: Igor Čamo, Dino Dervišhalidović Merlin, Sikter Editor: Miralem Zubčević Producer: Damir Ibrahimović, Sead Kreševljaković, Jasmila ŽbanićProduction: Deblokada[…]
Adna Muslija is a young visual artist who believes culture to be a part of our identities. Her work aims to show that art is far more than a pastime; it makes us reflect on, examine and reexamine our own limitations. In the interview for the uKONTAKTu portal, she spoke about the two-galleries-under-the-same-roof phenomenon, the walls that were[…]
Photo by: Mila Pejić „Acting is when I am in public transport, observing the people around me, their gestures and facial expressions and then wondering why someone addressed me the way they did, how they must feel, why I behave in one way or another… It is like doing research on a daily basis and enjoying it[…]
Photo by: Ivan Buvinić Vladimir Gojun is a film editor with an impressive work biography. His editing work includes both feature and documentary films and he has also tried himself in the role of director. He is also the editor of the only mockumentary (pseudo-documentary) film from former Yugoslavia titled “Houston, We Have a Problem”. He is[…]
On the occasion of the publication of her new collection of poems titled “Spoticanja” (Eng. Stumbling Blocks) (BIRN, 2021), poetess Mirjana Narandžić discusses the peculiarities of her artistic expression, poetry as being conditioned by the social context in which it is created and the inseparability of personal from collective history. Your collection of poems titled Spoticanja[…]
Had someone told me a week ago that a couple of eggs thrown at a mural would cause such tectonic shifts in an anesthetized and almost completely numbed Serbia, I would not have believed it. And yet, a certain upheaval occurred because, when looking at a broader context and considering the circumstances, there are clear indicators and[…]
“I always recall Borka Pavićević saying: It is not a street, a boulevard, for one to simply rename genocide. Those people are truly unworthy, they bargain. On the other hand, they keep saying – let’s turn over a new leaf looking to the future. Wait, what future? The future of corpses, the dead, the killed, the future[…]