The Border 1990
The story interleaves the destinies of two families, a Serbian from Bosnia and a Hungarian, in a village on the border.
The story interleaves the destinies of two families, a Serbian from Bosnia and a Hungarian, in a village on the border.
Two very different, but aging neighbors, Ratko and Krekich, share a rooftop terrace. Their settled lives are overturned by the arrival of an outgoing young girl, Andja, who takes the empty flat next door. But their dreams of revived youth and love and a better life, outside the strife of Yugoslavia's civil war, are short-lived as jealousy and army duty tear them apart.
Young seamstress Ivana leaves work in the tailor shops in Novi Pazar and accepts an offer to be a waitress in a private cafe in Gusinje, Montenegrin town on the Yugoslav-Albanian border. She meets a waitress with whom she becomes fast friends. Brothers Skeljzen and Becir come to Gusinje from New York for the holidays and meet with the waitresses, starting a love affair. Young men promise the girls marriage and going to America.
The screenplay was written immediately after the bombing of Novi Sad, 1999, but it was only a motive to speak up about the people that were humiliated for more than ten years in various ways, and that way became the victims of wrong politics, not only Milosevic's, but Western as well. The title of the movie was born there. In the second book of Moses it is written: " An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings." The people who suffered most in the wars on this territory are the ones that had no influence of what so ever on the development of situation on the Balkan. But, at the same time. there was ambitious youth, that the sense of their life in these stormy time. The film is about them and that is why it sounds optimistic. Film is about the fact that we will always have the energy to survive senseless time and live normally after that.
The protagonists of this docudrama are old farmers who migrated to Banat after the First World War, in 1922. The film is focused on a couple of important events in their impressive lives, which are woven into lively scenes and stories full of wise instances. Their statements become spontaneous recounts of the lives of people in this region.
A reporter who's about to lose his job, and who's daughter is very ill, starts a relationship with a married woman. Tragedy ensues.
A biopic of an influential Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher. Svetozar Markovic developed an activist anthropological philosophy with a definite program of social change, which set foundations for socialist ideals in his homeland.
A community nurse Ema comes to work in a small village in the lowlands as a replacement, where she discovers the diary that her antecedent left behind, thus finding out more about the ill children she cured and the secrets of this sleepy settlement.
A teenager arrives from Germany to his grandparents in Novi Sad. He can't adjust to Yugoslavian schools, system or slow way of life, so he asks his folks to go back, but his parents insist on him staying. What now?
Johan, a former Volksdeutscher, after thirty years after the end of the Second World War, comes back to the place where he was born and grew up, visits his birthplace where he finds Dane and Janja, the colonists who were assigned Johan’s house to. Johan recognizes the mulberry tree in the yard.
Documentary about a farm in the north of Bačka.
A tale of depressed Novi Sad cab driver and his continuous obsession with the long lost love, the stewardess who left for America and his passion for the American pop-culture. As his depression reaches the peak a serial killer with a sexual deviation starts killing Novi Sad cab drivers.
A Norwegian TV-worker tries to prevent her son, which she has with her former husband, a Serb now living in Jugoslavia, to become a soldier in the starting civil war.
Zdravko Čolić is the biggest pop star in Yugoslavia. We follow him during his "Traveling Earthquake Tour", lerning who is the man behind the microphone, dancers, glittery suits... and in front of the audience.
An experimental work based on the writings of prominent Yugoslav Dadaists.
One of the most popular groups of Yugoslavia, Poslednja igra leptira, with their frontman Nesa Leptir, made live spectacles by combining sketches of comedy and original music. One of these concerts, which were sold-out very quickly, was held at the Belgrade's Dom sindikata 1984..
The film portraits a writer-amateur Bora Joksimović, a heating maintenance mechanic in the Zrenjanin theatre. Unhappy with the shows he sees in his theatre, he decides to try his luck as a playwright. And as a result he has written 53 plays with "mighty plots", like "Hitler and Stalin Conversations in Hell", "Life of a Croat Woman in Belgrade", "Fratricide" etc.
A look at the life and work of conceptual artist and writer Miroslav Mandic.
A documentary on the experiences of Kosta Nađ in the Spanish Civil War. Kosta Nađ (Hungarian: Nagy Kosztá) apart from being a participant in the Spanish Civil War, also took part in World War 2 as a Partisan. He was a general of the JNA army, a hero of socialist work and a national hero of Yugoslavia.