Kosovo, 1999. As the civil war between Serbs and Albanians rages, hatred has replaced tolerance, and towns are brutally divided along ethnic lines. Read More »
Tag Archives: Serbia
Enclave (2015) Goran Radovanovic, Milena Jaksic, Filip Subaric, Nenad Stanojkovic, Milan Sekulic
Kosovo 2004, five years after the war. Nenad, ten years Christian boy from a Serbian enclave Read More »
All the Cities of the North (2016) Dane Komljen, Boban Kaludjer, Boris Isakovic
In an abandoned bungalow complex two man have made themselves a peaceful haven. Read More »
Inferno (2014) Vinko Moderndorfer, Jozica Avbelj, Ludvik Bagari, Silvo Bozic, Drama
Tragedy doesn’t come any more Dickensian in tone or Shakespearian in scope than this dark social drama of the disintegration of a little family of four. Read More »
Stara skola kapitalizma / The Old School of Capitalism (2009) Zelimir Zilnik, Pera Cehov, Rade Curcin, Slobodan Djoric, Documentary
Optimisti / The Optimists (2006) Goran Paskaljevic, Lazar Ristovski, Bojana Novakovic, Petar Bozovic, Drama
Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire’s Candide: “Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad.”
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Sveto mesto / A Holy Place (1990) Djordje Kadijevic, Dragan Jovanovic, Branka Pujic, Aleksandar Bercek, Drama, Horror
Sveto mesto (A Holy Place, 1990) is based on a literary classic, Nikolai Gogol’s 1835 short story, ‘Viy’. Read More »
Sjaj u ocima / Loving Glances (2003) Srdjan Karanovic, Senad Alihodzic, Ivana Bolanca, Jelena Djokic, Drama, Romance
A warm romantic comedy with local Serbian flavor, “Loving Glances” marks the return of acclaimed Belgrade helmer Srdjan Karanovic to directing after a 12-year absence due to the war in former Yugoslavia and its aftermath. Film’s difficult production circumstances are invisible, however, in the mildly surreal inter-ethnic love story between two young refugees.
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Dobra zena / A Good Wife (2016) Mirjana Karanovic, Boris Isakovic, Jasna Djuricic, Drama
Milena is a middle-aged wife and mother ensconced comfortably behind a gate in an upscale suburb of Belgrade. She quietly tends to her looks, dutifully cooks and entertains, and meets her friends for choir practice. She makes love with her husband and they socialize jauntily with a group of old friends. But unsettling realities are beginning to seep into Milena’s consciousness and disrupt her ordered world. One day while cleaning, she happens upon a videotape that incriminates her husband in horrific war crimes. A Good Wife is the story of how this secret reverberates in Milena’s life and eventually changes her.
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Slovenka / A Call Girl (2009) Damjan Kozole, Nina Ivanisin, Peter Musevski, Primoz Pirnat, Drama
Alexandra is a student from Krsko, a small town in Slovenia, while she studies the English language in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. She has a plan to conquer the world. Working as a prostitute, her life is heading to where she wants it, but an accidental death has her wrestling with new feelings of fear, loneliness, confusion and responsibility.
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