54th belgrade documentary and short film festival

DECISIONS OF THE JURY 54th BELGRADE DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILM FEST... [read more]

Darijan Mihajlovic, City Secretary for Culture - The future of short films in Serbia is bright, for I think that in spite of the recent turbulent period that have brought a sort of faster life and carelessness regarding short forms. I think that a solid and loyal audience is being created, who loves this kind of art. The future will not bring any new changes, which means that the interest for shorts, experimental or documentary films, will not cease. We are headed towards a more stable life. Belgrade and Serbia are breeding a stable audience for this kind of films. I think that this festival will remain unrivalled for years to come.

Emil Matesic, actor and scriptwriter of the film „Torsion“: The story of the film stems from a theatre play we did a year before the film. In that play, the core motive is the spine. There is a scenographic motive around wich revolves
Jaksa Boric, director of the film " Torsion": We did not have too hard of a time to adapt the play to the film, it came spontaneously. But it was hard to make the film, because it’s always is. Every business is hard when done properly, but we enjoyed it. We obtained... [read more]

IGOR LAZIN, AUTHOR OF THE FILM "THE DOG AND THE BUNNY" - I work my two of my colleagues in the production house MYFILM KFT and we have done a number of animated advertising films and got bored with it. I am currently making my own exhibitions and that meets my needs for artistic work. , I used to make 2-3 author’s films per year, but now I’m down to just one. Even this is too much. “The Dog and the Bunny” is a rather old story, a love story... [read more]

ZORAN DJUDUROVIC - The inspiration for the film came suddenly. He saw the monograph of Dusan Gerzic Gera at the moment he was to submit his professor an idea for a documentary film exercise exam. Considering that the exercise was called documentary portrait, he decided to do a story about Gera. Otherwise, Djudurovic’s colleague from dramaturgy, Jovana Lazic, who had shown him the monograph, was... [read more]

MILJAN GLISIC - The director’s friend and scriptwriter Dusan Bulic, who had been for several years interested in the story about Sava Savanovic – the first Serbian vampire – came to the idea of making the film. Glisic found the story interesting, especially from the aspect of a story about the dead, the issue of existence and dying and this demonic urge for live after death. I though that if in that way... [read more]

IVAN BANASEVIC- Ivan Banesevic, the director of the film, got to like Brooklyn at first site. Brooklyn was once a separate city, before becoming in the late XIX century one of the five main parts of New York together with Manhattan, Harlem, Queens… -Brookly is a part of New York, but is at the same time is a city on its own and I think has a soul. Each visit to Brooklyn is a film... [read more]

JELENA BOSKOVIC - She has found inspiration for her film in everyday life, because an overwhelming number of people live their lives in a kind routine. Jelena says that it’s not geographical, but a fact of the modern era. When the director felt that that routine is starting to eat her up too, she decided to deal with this subject and make a film about the robotized man, deprived of emotions. - The process of working on the film is very complex, for it’s an experimental form... [read more]

SASA PANCIC, AUTHOR OF “BLACK LIGHT”- The short film “Black Light” is part of the internal process driving a creative impulse. The importance of the process of transition of light, from two-dimensional determinants to three-dimensional objects, is bigger than the very works of art which are merely auxiliary stations in the circle. And so, this film is not a description of created drawings, relief and sculptures, but a... [read more]

54th SHORT METER OPENED - The 54th Belgrade Festival of Documentary and Short Film was opened last evening. After the Artistic Director of the Festival, Mrs. Vera Vatic, addressed the audience in „Dom Sindikata“, the hosts presented the distinguished guests of the International Jury.

Mrs. Milena Markovic, dramaturge; Mr. Nenad Dukic, film critic;
Mrs. Sayoko Kinoshita from Japan , Director of the Hiroshima Film Festival; Mrs. Elena Christodoulidou from Cyprus , film critic and The Chairman of the Jury, Mr. Karpo Acimovic Godina from Slovenia , director of documentary and featured films.

After the screening of the film „The Sound“ and the speech by Janko Baljak – the Chairman of the Council of the Festival, the Life Achievement Award... [read more]

VERA VLAJIĆ: The Life in Groups- According to the films that have arrived to this festival, the world could be classified into three groups. The first group consists of those who go to war, fighting for various reasons, and most commonly for somebody else. The second group is made of those whose lives and existences are destroyed because of those same wars... [read more]

POPCORN ARE FATTENING! - Popcorn in rustling paper bags that disturb silence during movies are probably fattening, but the habit of watching and enjoying in documentary, animated, and short films is equally infectious as the popcorn nibbling in the dark of the movie theatres. If you haven't checked it yet, do it now at the 54 th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film... [read more]

PROJECTION SCHEDULE
Dom sindikata	Dvorana kulturnog centra

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