Museum of the Revolution, directed by Srđan Keča
Belgrade’s ‘boutique’ film festival focusing on non-fiction cinema kicks off May 11, running through May 18. The festival opens with the Serbian premiere of the Sundance Institute-supported Museum of the Revolution, directed by Srđan Keča, and will close with the regional premiere of the Ukrainian film Outside by Olha Zhurba, about the life of a Roma boy in Ukraine.
Slovenian Karpo Godina and Serbian Želimir Žilnik will be honoured with retrospectives.
A statement released May 9 says that the “Beldocs team strongly condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and stands in solidarity with Docudays UA, the Ukrainian filmmaking community and the people of Ukraine.” Beldocs 2022 will present five films produced or co-produced by Ukraine and two Ukrainian projects will participate in Beldocs in Progress, as part of the industry section of the Festival. In memory of the brutally murdered filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius, winner of the Beldocs Main Prize with Barzakh, the festival will screen his last film Mariupolis.
The international competition, dedicated to fresh voices within documentary cinema, will this year feature 50% films directed or co-directed by female-identifying filmmakers. The jury of the international competition program will be chaired by director Karpo Godina, and the members are director Marta Popivoda and DocLisboa festival director Miguel Ribeiro.
Beldocs also features a Serbian Competition program, which will this year include both features and short films. Besides world premieres of Landscapes of Pannonian Ferns by Marko Cvejić and Spring by Viktor Horvat, the program will include Without by Luka Papić, Apple and Two Cherries by Mina Petrović, Museum of the Revolution by Srđan Keča, Adjusting by Dejan Petrović and Through My Hands by Koštana Banović. The president of the jury for the Serbian selection is the director Ivana Todorović, and the members are the general director of the Thessaloniki Film Festivals Elise Jalladeau and the programmer of the Berlinale Forum James Lattimer.
The festival also awards the Best Short and Best Teen Film. Best Short will be decided on by the jury consisting of the head of the industry program of the DOK Leipzig Nadja Tennstedt and directors Stefan Pavlović and Liesbeth de Ceulaer. The Best Teen Film award will be decided on by a Teen jury panel.
In all, the 112 films and XR experiences at the festival include 8 world premieres, 17 Serbian premieres and 78 regional premieres from 53 countries.
Slovenia’s Karpo Godina will be honored with a documentary retrospective, while a special retrospective program will feature films the Golden Bear-winner Želimir Žilnik made during his time spent in Germany. Godina and Žilnik will hold Masterclasses as part of the Beldocs Industry program.
Denmark will receive a curated Focus and this year’s special section, covering a different current topic each year, will this year have the theme of Woman vs System.
The non-competitive sections Fireworks, Meteors, Prime Time and Breeze will include latest works by Oliver Stone, Giuseppe Tornatore, Sergei Loznitsa, Andrea Arnold, James Benning, Radu Jude, Robert B. Wiede, Liz Garbus, Ruth Beckermann, Oliver Hirschbiegel and Andrew Dominik among others.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Faya Dayi by Jessica Beshir
A Thousand Fires by Saeed Taji Farouky
Camouflage by Jonathan Perel
Mensch Horst by Mo Rhozyel, Christoph Philipp Gehl
Excess Will Save Us by Morgane Dziurla-Petit
A Night of Knowing Nothing by Payal Kapadia
The One Who Runs Away Is the Ghost by Qinyuan Lei
The Police Estate by Antoine Dubos
Late August by Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini
Republic of Silence by Diana El Jeiroudi
Sweetling by Eva Van Barneveld
The Great Basin by Chivas DeVinck
Without by Luka Papić
Apple and Two Cherries by Mina Petrović
Museum of the Revolution by Srđan Keča
Landscapes of Pannonian Ferns by Marko Cvejić
Adjusting by Dejan Petrović
Spring by Viktor Horvat
Through My Hands by Koštana Banović
FIREWORKS
1970 by Tomasz Wolski
Guy Weizman: Before/After by Willem Baptist
Faya Dayi by Jessica Beshir
Cow by Andrea Arnold
Luchadoras by Patrick Jasim, Paola Calvo
Adjusting by Dejan Petrović
Trenches by Loup Bureau
Happiness Is a Journey by Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan
The Timekeepers of Eternity by Aristotelis Maragkos
Hide & Seek by Victoria Fiore
METEORS
Aralkum by Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi
Atlantide by Yuri Ancarani
Berg by Joke Olthaar
Jet Lag by Zheng Lu Xinyuan
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
The Plains by David Easteal
Rewind&Play by Alain Gomis
Saturn and Beyond by Declan Clarke
Memories from the Eastern Front by Radu Jude, Adrian Cioflâncă
The United States of America by James Benning
Detours by Ekaterina Selenkina
Mysterious Object at Noon by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
BREEZE
81 Meters by Jānis Ābele
Aya by Simon Coulibaly Gillard
To Beflower Marble by Sara Stijović
Hooyo, Why Here? by Neema Ngelime
Outside by Olha Zhurba
A People’s Radio – Ballads from a Wooded Country by Virpi Suutari
Oh Dear Sara by Patricia Franquesa
Attention All Passengers by Marek Moučka
Spring by Viktor Horvat
Paraíso by Sérgio Tréfaut
Every Sunday by Keti Papadema
Triplex Confinium by Maria Bălănean
Soldat Ahmet by Jannis Lentz
PRIME TIME
Babi Yar. Context by Sergei Loznitsa
Bob Spit by We Do Not Like People – Cesar Cabral
Ennio by – Giuseppe Tornatore
Mr. Landsbergis by Sergei Loznitsa
Jackass Forever by Jeff Tremaine
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone
When Flowers Are Not Silent by Andrei Kutsila
Becoming Cousteau by Liz Garbus
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time by Robert B. Weide, Don Argott
Mutzenbacher by Ruth Beckermann
This Much I Know to Be True by Andrew Dominik
The Rossellinis by Alessandro Rossellini, Lorenzo d’Amico de Carvalho
Sabaya by Hogir Hirori
The Painter by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Ascension by Jessica Kingdon
See You Friday, Robinson by Mitra Farahani
Dreaming Walls&nbs
p;by Amélie van Elmbt, Maya Duverdier
WOMAN VS SYSTEM
Calendar Girls by Love Martinsen, Maria Loohufvud
F@ck This Job by Vera Krichevskaya
Apple and Two Cherries by Mina Petrović
Raise the Bar by Guðjón Ragnarsson
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power by Nina Menkes
Life of Ivanna by Renato Borrayo Serrano
FOCUS: DENMARK
Q’s Barbershop by Emil Langballe
Being Eriko by Jannik Splidsboel
A House Made of Splinters by Simon Lereng Wilmont
Dark Blossom by Frigge Fri
The Five Obstructions by Lars Von Trier, Jørgen Leth
The Perfect Human by Jørgen Leth
Into the Ice by Lars Henrik Ostenfeld
RETROSPECTIVE KARPO GODINA
Abyssinia by Karpo Godina
On Love Skills or Film with 14441 Frames by Karpo Godina
The Story of Mr. P. F. by Karpo Godina
Healthy people for Pastime by Karpo Godina
ŽELIMIR ŽILNIK: A DIARY FROM WEST GERMANY
Inventory by Želimir Žilnik
Public Execution by Želimir Žilnik
House Orders by Želimir Žilnik
Request by Želimir Žilnik
Under the Protection of the State by Želimir Žilnik
Farewell by Želimir Žilnik
TEEN
Children of the Mist by Diễm Hà Lệ
The Mission by Tania Anderson
Raise the Bar by Guðjón Ragnarsson
Loves Me, Loves Me Not by Kathrine Skibsted, Caroline Mathilde Salic, Andrine Moland
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
(Re)evolution 2.0: Cyborg Quest by Dragan Ilić, Darko Štetin
Italo Disco. The Sparkling Sound of the 80s by Alessandro Melazzini
KOLEKTИV by David Dawson, Nina Vukadin
Kraljevo – A Story of Hope in the Time of Corona by Savo Tufegdžić
Ozymandias by Misho Antadze
Beneath Our Windows by Slobodanka Radun, Vladislava Vojnović
The Last Austrians by Lukas Pitscheider
Reconstruction of the Occupation by Jan Šikl
Scenes from the Life of BIH Film by Mustafa Mustafić
Factory to the Workers by Srđan Kovačević
Signs of Life by Marko Nikolić
XR EXHIBITION: IMMERSIVE REALITY
The Miracle Basket by Abner Preis
Hydrocosmos by Milad Tangshir
Reeducated by Sam Wolson
Water & Coltan by Daniel Kötter
IN MEMORIAM MANTAS KVEDERAVICIUS (1976-2022)
Mariupolis by Mantas Kvedaravičius
