This year’s edition of the festival will be held from the 5th to the 10th of November in Belgrade,
Novi Sad and Nis in eight cinema halls. Tickets for the Novi Sad can be purchased
from Novembar 5 in MoCAV. Ticket price is 200 dinars.
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Goran Markovic: Today, with restricted media scene and loss of freedom, festivals, where
independent films are shown and where independent people meet, are a necessity.
Mirjana Karanovic: If you asked a politician on the status of socially-engaged feature and
documentary films in Serbia, he would probably ask for an interpreter.
PROGRAMM:
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The Pearl Button (doc.)
Director: Patricio Guzman
Country: Chile, France, Spain
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: Serbian, English
Year: 2015
Runtime: 82'
The whole history of mankind is contained in the ocean. The ocean keeps voices from the Earth
and the ones coming from space. Stars set in motion the oceans and living creatures in them.
The ocean, simultaneously the longest Chilean water border, keeps the secret of two
mysterious buttons found at its bottom. Having a 2.670-mile-long coast and the biggest arches
in the world, Chile looks almost unnatural. Its volcanoes, mountains and glaciers keep the
voices of Patagonian and Land of Fire’s natives, first English colonists’ and political prisoners’
from the Pinochet’s regime. It is said that water doesn’t forget, but this film proves us that it can
talk, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ecCqIEXAk
Mustang (fic.)
Director: Deniz Gamze Erguven
Country: France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar
Language: Turkish
Subtitles: Serbian, English
Year: 2015
Runtime: 95’
FEMALE LINE
A contemporary drama that explores the contradiction of religion and secularism, tradition and
modernism through the story of five teenage girls living in remote village in northern Turkey.
Lale and her five sisters come back home from school and play with the boys. But the
immorality of their game causes a scandal that will have unexpected consequences. The family
house slowly transforms into a prison, school replaces house works and marriages are to be
agreed upon. Five sisters who share a spirit of freedom find a way to bypass the limitations
placed in fronz of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABNB3zw5BAo
Taxi (fic.)
Director: Jafar Panahi
Country: Iran
Language: Persian
Subtitle: English and Serbian
Year: 2015
Runtime: 85’
GUEST SELECTOR PRESENTS
What should a producer do when he is not allowed to shoot films? To accept the reality, change
a profession and become a taxi driver? Or to pretend he is a taxi driver and shoot a film no
matter what? Yes, Jafar Panahi has done that and now is inviting you for an unforgettable drive
on the streets of Teheran, where you can meet his countrymen through characters of Panahi’s
passengers by a price of the cinema ticket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hYkteGqZfY
Approaching the Elephant (doc.)
Director: Amanda Wilder
Country: USA
Language: English
Subtitles: Serbian
Year: 2015
Runtime: 89’
GUEST SELECTOR PRESENTS
14+
Year one for Lucy, Giovanni and director Alexander at Teddy McArdle Free School in Little
Falls, New Jersey, where classes are voluntary and rules are created by democratic vote.
Wilder is there from the beginning, observing the indelible cast of outspoken young personalities
as they form relationships, explore their surrounding and intensely debate rule violations until it
all comes to a head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdGIkBSkEdc
The Club (fic.)
Director: Pablo Larrain
Country: Chile
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: Serbian, English
Year: 2015
Runtime: 98’
In a little town on the Chilean shore, there’s a house where excommunicated priests and nuns
live together, far from the public eye. They’ve been suspected of a variety of crimes, from
children abuse to unmarried mothers’ baby trafficking. This odd crew looks as if they lived at the
entrance to hell, which they obviously deserve. The turning point starts when Catholic Church
Crisis Counselor knocks the door.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqv8PPDfiyw
My Skinny Sister (fic.)
Director: Sanna Lenken
Country: Sweeden, Germany
Subtitles: Serbian, English
Language: Sweedish
Year: 2015
Runtime: 95’
Walking into the exciting world of adolescents, Stella reveals that Katja, her older sister and role
model in her life, conceals an eating disorder. Her illness easily starts tearing the family apart.
This is a story about jealousy, love and betrayal, told with warmth, depth and spirit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh0tbzLia_8
Dangerous Acts (doc.)
Directed: Madeleine Sackler
Country: USA, Great Britain, Belarus
Language: Byelorussian
Subtitles: English, Serbian
Year: 2014
Runtime: 76’
DOCUVISION
Confronting provocative, socially engaged theatre in Belarus requires a large amount of
personal risk along with emotional efforts and stressful situations. For the members of
Byelorussian free theater there are a lot of others threats - censorship, imprisonment and other.
This documentary film takes us behind the scenes of renowned theater troupe famous for her
imaginative and subversive approach that implements their actions in the isolated country led by
the last European dictator, Alexander Lukashenko. Composed of smuggled footages this film
gives us uncompromising insight into the resistance movement that develops directly on the
streets of Minsk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGALySJ3O24
Rams (fic.)
Director: Grimur Hakonarson
Country: Iceland
Language: Icelandic
Subtitles: Serbian, English
Year: 2015
Runtime: 93'
In a remote valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live next to each other taking care of their sheep.
Their centuries-old breed is believed to be one of the best on the island and the brothers keep
getting awards for their priceless rams which continue the traditional line. Although they share
the land and the way of life, they haven’t spoken to each other in four decades. When a
tremendous disease attacks Kiddi’s sheep, the whole valley is found in danger. The government
makes a decision to kill all the animals in the town to stop the epidemic. For farmers who earn
for living mainly by keeping sheep, this act is equal to a death penalty, so many of them leave
the country. But Gummi and Kiddi do not give up that easy – the brothers, each in his own way,
try to stop the catastrophy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWOFWaltGRw
Dancing with Maria (doc.)
Director: Ivan Gergolet
Country: Argentina, Italia, Slovenia
Language: Spanish, Italian
Subtitles: English, Serbian
Year: 2014
Runtime: 75’
FEMALE LINE
Maria Fux is ninety years old and she’s still working. In her dance studio in the centre of Buenos
Aires, she works with dancers of all ages, including men and women with physical and mental
disabilities.
After a life time teaching and conducting experiments through her dance method based on the
internal rhythm and symbiosis with the music, this time Maria has to face it with her latest
student - herself. Being a ninety-year-old, Maria engages into a decisive battle with the limits
imposed by her own body.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHW5kOLRVP4
The Summer of Sangaile
Director: Alante Kavaite
Country: Lithuania, France
Language: Lithuanian
Subtitles: Serbian, English
Year: 2015
Runtime: 88’
14+
Sensual and poetic story of turbulent adolescent emotions of two teenage girls. Seventeenyear-old Sangaile is obsessed with aerobatics. She is afraid of heights and has never dared to
enter the cockpit of an airplane. At the summer flights rally near her house, she meets Auste, a
waitress in the local kitchen who, unlike her, is living life filled with creativity and boldness. Their
first meeting in the summer they spend together already causes sparks which grow into a trance
and completely overtakes them. Sangaile allows Auste to reveal her innermost secrets and in
her teenage love she finds the only person who truly supports her in flying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5tErAkhD2E