Dovlatov // Довлатов by Alexey German Jr.
The film shows several days from the life of a young and unknown writer Sergei Dovlatov in 1970s Leningrad, on the eve of his friend’s immigration, the future Nobel laureta Joseph Brodsky. Dovlatov like many other banned writers and artists in the USSR attempts to live a normal life: to write, to mend his relationship with his daughter, to get a job - but alas, each day it becomes more and more difficult. In a series of life conflicts, intermittently funny and soul-piercing, we discover the life of an insightful, brilliant, ironic and very talented individual who tries to preserve his decency and talent in spite of the will of the state machinery.
Screenings:
Saturday 17/2/2018/ 09:00h - Berlinale Palast (Press screening)
Saturday 17/2/2018/ 15:00h - Berlinale Palast (Gala Premiere)
Additional screenings:
Sunday 18/2/2018/ 09:30h - Friedrichstadt-Palast
Sunday 18/2/2018/ 21:30h - Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Sunday 18/2/2018/ 17:55h - CineStar 1 (Market screening)
Sunday 18/2/2018/ 22:30h – International
Thursday 22/2/2018/ 11:45h - CinemaxX 10
Sunday 25/2/2018/ 09:30h - Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Contact:
World Sales, Alpha Violet
Virginie Devesa
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Keiko Funato
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Serbian Co-Producer
Art & Popcorn Motion Picture Company
Miroslav Mogorović, Producer
Untravel // Neputovanja by Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak Jr.
film about (local) patriotism, tourism and emigration… A girl lives in a gray, isolated country, enclosed by a huge wall. She has never travelled anywhere, but all her life she has dreamt of leaving for a perfect world called Abroad. However, she is afraid of what could happen if she tries to cross the border. After many years, dreams and fears, the girl finally gathers enough courage to set off on a journey for the first time. What sort of world will she find on the other side of the wall?
Screenings:
Saturday 17/2/2018 15:30h - CinemaxX 3 (Premiere)
Thursday 22/2/2018 10:00h - HKW
Saturday 24/2/2018 20:15h - Cubix 8
Sunday 25/2/2018 15:30h - Cubix 8
Contact:
Jelena Mitrović
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Film House Baš Čelik
Gospodar Jevremova 35
11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Tel: +381 11 303 4441
Mobile: +381 64 114 5237
www.bascelik.net
When Im Dead and Pale // Kad budem mrtav i beo by Živojin Pavlović
A seasonal worker, Jаnko Bugаrski a.k.a. Jimmy Barka, a man of questionable moral qualities and uncertain future, has been let go from his temporary job on a construction site. He and his girlfriend Lilica decide to leave the dire straits they have found themselves in – they go on the road, into the unknown with faith in a better tommorow. But, the couple soon splits up. Jimmy meets a local singer, Duška, who plies her trade in bars and becomes her lover, sparking a dream of a stage career for himself, too. He learns singing from Duška, but
he is not really good at it, so he can get gigs only at country fairs or military
garrisons. In one small town he meets a dental tehnician, Bojana. The two set off for Belgrade together to enter a talent pageant – where he is booed of the stage by the audience because of his folk style. Then, he once again meets Lilica, who has been ekeing out a living by stealing and conning people.
Jimmy begins a blackmail game with her, leading to a tragic end.
Screenings:
Sunday 18/2/2018/ 22:00h - Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg
Thursday 22/2/2018 17:00h - CinemaxX 6 (Press and industry screening)
Friday 23/2/2018 19:00h - Zoo-Palast 2
Berlinale Talents
Marko Grba Singh
Marko Grba Singh was born in 1988 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He is currently on his PhD studies in Film & TV directing, exploring docu-fiction. His first mid-length film
“Abdul & Hamza”, won the Special Mention in the First film competition at FID Marseille 2015. He was a member of the student jury at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2016.
His latest short film “Stars of Gaomeigu” won the award for the most innovative short film at Visions du reel in 2017.
Miljena Vučković
Miljena Vučković creates Space. She explores its perception and presentation, limits and changeability through her work in scenography, spatial & light installations. She gained significant professional experience in Production and Stage Design. She serves as the vice-president of “Scenatoria”, Organisation that “stages” performative arts in neglected architectural heritage.
Marta Popivoda is filmmaker and video artist. Her first feature documentary “Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body” premiered at 63rd Berlinale and was later screened at great number of film festivals worldwide. Her work has been presented as well in Tate Modern London and MoMA New York. Recently, she received the Berlin Art Prize for the visual arts by Akademie der Künste Berlin and Edith-Russ-Haus Award for
Emerging Media Artist.
Marta Popivoda’s film documentary project “Freedom Landscapes” is selected for Berlinale Talents Doc Station 2018.
Freedom Landscapes / Pejzaži slobode
A film about Sonja Vujanović, the first Partisan women in Serbia. She was also a leader of the Resistance at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The film tells precisely that story, bespeaking that it is possible to think and practice resistance even in such a totalitarian situation. Sonja (96) still lives among us, in central Belgrade, in a small apartment that is beginning to look like an archive of a world that is vanishing, a story that must be told now or will disappear forever.
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www.theoryatwork.org
FILM CENTER SERBIA AT BERLINALE EUROPEAN FILM MARKET (EFM) Martin Gropius Bau / stand #G3
Boban Jevtić
General Manager
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(16 -20 Feb)
Miroljub Vučković
International Relations and Promotion
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(17 – 24 Feb)
Andjelija Andrić
International Relations and Promotion
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(14 – 22 Feb)
Una Domazetoski
International Relations and Promotion
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