Akademski filmski centar / Dom kulture studentski grad

In the summer of 2005 a sensation appeared on domestic social networks in the form of a blog titled “Maja in a brothel.” The author of this blog, whose nickname was “sexymaja”, identified herself as a girl from Belgrade, who has just started in the prostitution business. She soon became one of the most popular persona on the web, entertaining numerous readers with witty and provocative descriptions of the clients she had met. However, after her mysterious disappearance from the scene, suspicions were aroused about the identity of this person. The blog community points a finger at a ghostwriter, who was allegedly responsible for the entire conspiracy. He admits it, but without much hesitation also leads us to its inspiration – a girl who’s actually lived through it all.

A short experimental film.

Fragile trust between people and vampires has come to the end. Ancient thousand year's war continues...She is the chosen one and she will fight till the last drop of blood.

Bitter poetry of everyday life in the isolated hills of Eastern Bosnia shows the care and intimacy of the grannies, both in their mutual relations and in relationship with nature.

Diary of a Serious Offender is a visual journey that takes us through Danilo’s life as he serves out his sentence, while the relationship with his girlfriend becomes strained. Danilo spends the summer shooting a video diary and overcoming his issues by maturing both emotionally and physically.

The director portrays her transsexual friend who gives her very special, unpretentious access. A very intimate view, that gets very close.

The symphony of hands “DV Essay in Three Digital Movements,“ dedicated to “VORKI,“ inspired by Vorkapic's concept on visual and sound film structure amalgamation. Visual material is presented by the Italian renaissance masters' works (to John Purcell's' music), Serbian medieval frescoes (to Stevan St. Mokranjac's music) and contemporary photographs (to Charles Mingus's music).

The story of a single mother who, in a small multi-ethnic environment, between work and motherhood, finds time for volunteer work in the Red Cross.

A lonely white flower grows surrounded by other plants and every day he struggles to survive.

In the form of an anthology film on psychiatric subject, it offers reflection on various situations that occur in the waiting rooms and hospitals of a psychiatric institution. Time flows differently there, the boundaries between mental health and mental illness are shifting, frustrations are emerging, which puts doctors and patients even.

A short experimental film.

Contemporary urban melodrama about three young couples who experience emotional crises and turning points in their relationships due to the circumstances in which they find themselves. The earthquake connects three stories in the same city in a cathartic way.

A short experimental film.

After a bloody battle, mother is haunted by horrific death scenes of her nine sons and their father. Through her emotional journey and the oneiric imagery we follow her pain and sorrow as well as strength and heroism with which the mother endures her misfortune. Inspired by the motifs of the Serbian medieval poem “Death of Mother Jugovic.”

A futuristic fairy tale about balance in nature. The girl has a hobby of collecting insects. One night a romantic visitor shows up. By engaging in a harmless romance, in which a twist occurs, the girl experiences a fatal fate.

The story of first and last sexual experience.

A man sits in his rundown apartment and watches a TV. After he has eaten his fill, he leaves. Through a seemingly never-ending corridor, past houses which are reminiscent of war photography. He boards a train. Keeps on straying by foot through a dark, dystopian world. Does he even have a destination? Eventually, he meets a woman. The eponymous Bright Future is nowhere to be seen, but maybe something like love?

Short observations of one or more journeys, somebody's smile and a dog.

After recent political changes in Serbia, many streets in Belgrade named after persons and events of the World War II, changed their names. The film depicts the work of the Street and Squares Commission, appointed by the city of Belgrade, as well as reactions of individuals and groups impacted by recent changes.

This film is the portrait of Bojan, a young man with a passion for graffiti and hip-hop who lives on the streets of Belgrade. He died at the age of 21 from an overdose.