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31.05.2016 - SEE Documentary Marathon

  • 10.00-11.00: ARISTOPHANES IN DNOPOLJE, 58 min, Serbia, Dir. Natasa Milojevic.
This documentary has been filmed in the region of Lika in Croatia, 20 years after the war in former Yugoslavia. The protagonists are women, born in Lika or migrated from former YU regions – Serbs, Bosniacs, Croats who come together in civil society organizations aiming at developing their activities that could be of interest to the broader community, as well as to place their products on the market. Very often their home made products are their only source of income...  Women speak about their lives, wishes, daily activities, the political situation, their dreams and aspirations... All of them, although carrying the burden of migrating and deviding families, find an oportunity to express themselves. With tears and sense of humor. They  feel  free and brave to speak out, to be just as they are. In the middle of nowhere, as Dnopolje village is. 

  • 11.00-11.30: “The Children of My Father”, 26 min, Macedonia, Dir. Besfort Imami.
The documentary film “The Children of My Father” is a story about the life and work of Sureja Imami, who he was and what was his impact on education and music. This is a search by his 3 sons about their father’s life. We knew that he was the first Albanian music teacher in Macedonia and that he had lot of students, who were influenced by his pedagogic work. But, after his death we started to discover details about his life and his importance in the community that we weren’t aware of before. That was the initial moment for starting of this film, where I will show my journey during the process of discovering of unknown details about my father’s life.

  • 11.30-13.00: “Uncle Tony, Three Fools and the Secret Service”, 87 minutes, Bulgaria, Dir. Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova.
“Uncle Tony, Three Fools, and the Secret Service” observes the political hierarchy among artists and filmmakers in a totalitarian society as well as the destiny of animator and filmmaker Antony Trayanov (Uncle Tony). This film was co-produced by the Bulgarian National Television who granted archive but it was not supported by the Bulgarian National Film Centre as the subject was found to be a sensitive one. Unsurprisingly the film stirred heated Media debates in Bulgarian society which coincided with the outrage regarding the still closed Bulgarian Secret Service dossiers. The authors appeared several times on prime-time TV to defend their creation. There was confusion in the Ministry of Culture, Film Author and other institutions caused by hostile letters and false tabloid claims. A group of intellectuals and writers created a webpage in support of the film entitled: Please sign in support of freedom of speech, expression and thinking in Bulgaria. It is a film that supports a strong cause and it creates history for the country. The film was running 7 months in cinemas in Bulgaria and marked a record number of screenings especially for a documentary.

  • 14.30-14.45: “STROKES”, Vladimir Perovic, 15 min. 2016, Montenegro.
Life, hindered, blazes a new strength. We find that higher power in ourselves. And in the goal. The story of a boy who is stronger. The beauty and the abundance of the life, up above everything.

  • 14.45-15.00: “A Ship Sailing to the Immeasurable”, Saso Dimoski, 16 min, 2016, Macedonia.
Documentary film about Macedonia poet Igor Isakovski. 

  •  15.00-15.05: “Bektachis”, Manuel Poutte, 5 min, 2016, Albania, France 

  • 15.10-16.50: “In a Vortex”, 100 min. Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Director: Zoltán Siflis.
The film, edited as a diary, is a documentary time capsule, a film-chronicle of the end of the millennium about the every days of the decade-long Balkan-Yugoslav armed conflicts. It is a documentary about the happenings and ambience of the civil war in the 1990s. In those years, many had already left the country fleeing from the misery and hyperinflation caused by armed conflicts. Principally, the film explores the period from the perspective of the ethnic Hungarian population in Yugoslavia-Serbia. This documentary addresses life situations and personal lives linked to these issues.

  • 17.00-18.30: LogBook_Serbistan, 95 min, Serbia, Director: Zelimir Zilnik.
Illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in Serbia, placed in asylum centers after their dramatic journeys from war-torn and poverty-stricken areas of North Africa, Near and Middle East go through a period of adaptation to life and social circumstances in Serbia. In most cases, however, their goal is to reach one of the EU countries. Docu-drama is a space for them to, beside the socio-political context in which they found themselves, show their individual values, becoming heroes that viewers can identify with and whose destiny and struggle they can understand.

  • 18.30-20.00: Round table - "Cinema and Migration"