At the opening of the Festival on September 9th, under the open sky in the warm atmosphere of the amphitheater in front of the Museum of Yugoslavia, the film "Faith and Branko" will be shown, directed by Catherine Harte, an intimate documentary that follows the love and relationship of two musicians from two disparate world, a British accordionist Faith Eliot and Roma violinist Branko Rosić.
The International Competition will feature 11 films from all over the world. From the far north of Russia comes Nikolai N. Viktorov's film "Beaumonde Scrapping", about the boiling-point milieu of the struggle for secondary raw materials. The Portuguese film "Our Land, Our Altar" by Andrea Guiomar presents an image of the decline of a community. Visually impressive Argentinian film "Ski" by Mancque La Banca, depicts all the complexity of colonialism intersecting with folk horror in South America. Other films in this program include the IDFA First Appearance Competition winner “This Rain Will Never Stop”, the Visions du Réel's Burning Lights Competition winner “Looking for Horses”.
This year’s Serbian Competition gathers seven recent Serbian documentaries or those made in co-production with countries from the region or Europe and the world, including two that had World premieres at prestigious foreign film festivals. From the competition program of the festival in Rotterdam come the "Landscapes of Resistance" by Marta Popivoda, which records a journey through the memories of anti-fascist fighter Sonja (97), one of the first partisans in Yugoslavia, who was among the leaders of the resistance movement in Auschwitz. From the competitive selection of the "East of the West" festival in Karlovy Vary come "Roots", a concept documentary by Tea Lukač. Other films in this program will include “Dida”, which had its world premiere in the Burning Lights Competition and “The Bird (or - Marty, the Clown)” by the 19-year-old Oliver Ćirić.
The focus on new and bold cinematic voices continues on through program sections such as “Fireworks”, which will this year boast new works by Khalik Allah, the Ross brothers and Alejandro Jodorowsky, alongside a screening of the restored unsung classic work by Francois Reichenbach “The Winner” and “Meteors”, featuring new works by Kazuo Hara, Shenzhe Zhu and the legendary Nelson Sullivan’s Video Diaries.
In addition to these films, the Festival will feature the works of other great documentarians such as Frederick Wiseman’s "City Hall", Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti's "War and Peace", Milo Rau's "New Gospel", Vitaly Manski’s "Gorbachev. Paradise" and Spike Lee’s "David Byrne's American Utopia", Reka Valerik’s controversial "Silent Voice", recently banned in Russia and many other cinematic delights.
A special event will be organized with two esteemed guests of the festival – the Russian director and Artdocfest founder Vitaly Mansky and Serbian director and Golden Bear winner Želimir Žilnik, entitled “A conversation between Vitaly Mansky and Želimir Žilnik: Documentary Cinema - A Mirror or A Magnifying Glass?” The two great authors will look at reality and fact in documentary cinema - what is the difference and what do they have in common? How does reality impact freedom of expression in cinema and does it actually exist in the audiovisual realm?
The Festival, as well as the Beldocs Industry program, which includes Beldocs VR/AR Academy, Beldocs in Progress, Serbian Docs in Progress, Documentaries for Kids & Youth and Beldocs Market, have been developed thanks to the support of Creative Europe MEDIA sub-program of the European Union.
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BELDOCS 2021 FULL LINEUP
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
This Rain Will Never Stop - Alina Gorlova
Ski - Manque La Banca
Jungle - Louise Mootz
Things We Dare Not Do - Bruno Santamaría Razo
Beaumonde Scrapping - Nikolay N. Viktorov
The Day Today - Maxence Stamatiadis
Middle Earth - Juliette Guignard
Holgut - Liesbeth De Ceulaer
Zaho Zay - Georg Tiller, Maéva Ranaïvojaona
Our Land, Our Altar - André Guiomar
Looking for Horses - Stefan Pavlović
SERBIAN COMPETITION
Telenovela Greyscale in Color - Filip Martinović
Saint Clair Cemin, Psyche - Svetlana Cemin
The Bird (or - Marty, the Clown) - Oliver Ćirić
The Land - Marko Šipka
Landscapes of Resistance - Marta Popivoda
Dida - Nikola Ilić, Corina Schwingruber Ilić
Roots - Tea Lukač
FIREWORKS
Bloody Nose Empty Pockets- Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross
In My Room - Mati Diop
IWOW: I Walk on Water - Khalik Allah
Psychomagic, an Art That Heals - Alejandro Jodorowsky
Ski - Manque La Banca
Moth - Roxanne Gaucherand
Silent Voice - Reka Valerik
Drama Girl - Vincent Boy Kars
In Shallow Water - Marek Moučka
The Communion of My Cousin Andrea - Brandán Cerviño Abeledo
To Feather, to Wither - Hanna Hovitie
The Winner - Francois Reichenbach
Heliconia - Paula Rodríguez Polanco
METEORS
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces - Shenzhe Zhu
Minamata Mandala - Kazuo Hara
Out of the Present - Andrej Ujica
Chung Kuo - Cina - Michelangelo Antonioni
Our Madness - Joao Viana
The Big-Headed Boy, Shamans and Samurais - Bibhusan Basnet, Pooja Gurung
The Day Today - Maxence Stamatiadis
Rift Finfinnee - Daniel Kötter
Outside Noise - Ted Fendt
A Rifle And A Bag - Cristina Hanes, Arya Rothe, Isabella Rinaldi
Nelson Sullivan’s Video Diaries - Nelson Sullivan
BREEZE
I Love You I Miss You I Hope I See You Before I Die - Eva Marie Rodbro
Meanwhile on Earth - Carl Olsson
Celebration - Vladimir Loginov
Everything Will Not Be Fine - Adrian Pirvu, Helena Maksyom
Quiet About Nothing - Nikola Stojanović
Kachalka - Gar O’Rourke
We Are All Going to Die - Sashko Potter Micevski
Obrad - Branislav Milatović
Džemo - Lejla Kajić, Davorin Sekulić
Last Days of the Year - Marko Bičanić
Sheltered - Saskia Gubbels
On Hold - Laura Rantanen
ELEMENTAL
Self Portrait - Margreth Olin, Katja Nørregaard, Høgset or Espen Wallin
Beautiful Something Left Behind - Katrine Philp
Silent Voice - Reka Valerik
The First Woman - Miguel Eek
The Hero's Journey to the Third Pole – A Bipolar Musical Documentary with Elephants - Andri Snær Magnason, Anní Ólafsdóttir
FRONT PAGE
Long Day Tomorrow - Paweł Wysoczański
The Fight for Greenland - Kenneth Sorento
War and Peace - Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti
Daughter of Camorra - Siniša Gačić
Songs of Repression - Estephan Wagner, Marianne Hougen-Moraga
My Uncle Tudor - Olga Lucovnicova
The New Gospel - Milo Rau
Bella - Thelyia Petraki
An Ordinary Country - Tomasz Wolski
The Last Shelter - Ousmane Samassekou
Reconciliation - Marija Zidar
PRIME TIME
City Hall - Frederick Wiseman
David Byrne’s American Utopia - Spike Lee
The Mole - Mads Brugger
The Truffle Hunters - Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
You Cannot Kill David Arquette - David Darg, Price James
The Painter and the Thief - Benjamin Ree
All Light Everywhere - Theo Anthony
A Glitch in the Matrix - Rodney Ascher
PROFILE
Roger Waters Us + Them - Roger Waters, Sean Evans
Be Water - Bao Nguyen
Gorbatchev. Heaven - Vitaly Manski
Max Richter's Sleep - Natalie Johns
LANDSCAPE
Blue Breath - Rodrigo Areias
Taming the Garden - Salomé Jashi
Please Hold the Line - Pavel Cuzuioc
Prokop - Danilo Stanimirović
Merak - Dzhovani Gospodinov
The Little Moon - Elena Kairytė
Spirits and Rocks: an Azorean Myth - Aylin Gökmen
FOCUS UKRAINE
This Rain Will Never Stop - Alina Gorlova
Don't Worry, the Doors Will Open - Oksana Karpovych
Roses. Film-Cabaret - Irena Stetsenko
As Far As Possible - Ganna Iaroshevych
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Faith and Branko - Catherine Harte
Sava - Matthew Somerville
The Witch's Cauldron - Branislav Jankić
There Is No Other Place - Anat Tel
TEEN
Dear Future Children - Franz Böhm
Love Around the World - Anđela Rostuhar, Davor Rostuhar
Chelas nha kau - Bataclan 1950, Bagabaga
Teenage Lockdown Tales - Charlotte Ballet-Baz, Marie-Pierre Jaury
THESSALONIKI IN BELGRADE
The Fourth Character - Katerina Patroni
The Music of Things - Menios Carayannis
The Unknown Athenians - Angeliki Antoniou
PEDRO COSTA RETROSPECTIVE
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
Change Nothing
6 Bagatelas
Pedro Costa
The End of A Love Affair
VR
Medusa - Sara Tirelli
Heterotopia - Léon Denise, Samuel Lepoil, Dorian Rigal Minuit
