Free zone is a festival of engaged films. It was founded in 2005, and since 2013 it has been held simultaneously in several cities in Serbia.
This year's 21st Free Zone starts on the 5th and will last until the 10th of November. There will be no grand opening, and the films will be shown in ten cinemas in the country.
The Belgrade program will be shown in the Dom Omladine, Takwood Cineplex, Cineplex Ušće, Art cinema Kolarac, Parobrod Cultural Institution and the Belgrade Cultural Center Hall, which will be opened for the first time since it was first occupied by artists in February with the intention of organizing their programs there, only to be inherited by the homeless.
In Novi Sad, the audience will be able to watch films in Arena Cineplex and the Cultural Center of Novi Sad, while Cineplex has decided to show Slobodne Zobe films in Kragujevac as well as in Niš.
The program includes 37 feature films and documentaries from 20 countries.
We pick a few at random for illustration.
Visit
Visit
Two stars of the French theater, Isabelle Yper and Afsia Erzi, play the main roles in the melodrama "Visiting Hours" by Patricia Mazoui. They are Alma and Mina, women who meet in the prison waiting room, where they regularly visit their husbands. Alma is a bourgeois who lives alone in a huge house, Mina is a single mother in a social housing program. When Minnie postpones her visit to the next day, Alma offers her a place to stay, and an unexpected friendship develops between the two, marked by dreams of emancipation and change, and echoes of the class chasm that separates them.
Part of my heart
Part of my heart
Two heroines, Olga and Irma, are also at the center of the Dutch melodrama "Part of my heart" by Dana Nehuštan. Partially inspired by the true tragic story of a ballerina from the 1970s, the director made a film about timeless talent and unconditional friendship. It is a dark fairy tale about the best students of a high school ballet school who become members of the prestigious Royal Ballet. Irma is hard-working, persistent and self-disciplined, and Olga is a natural talent with an innate charisma that, despite her nonchalant attitude towards training and self-destructive streak, brings her fame.
How to make millions before grandma dies
How to make millions before grandma dies
The most watched Thai film at the world box office in history, "How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies" was also a national candidate for the Oscar, included in the selection of the 15 best foreign films. It's a heartwarming comedy directed by debutant Pat Bunitipat about a failed, broke college student who tries to win his grandmother's affection so he doesn't inherit her millions. Naturist Usha Simkum, who plays the grandmother, achieved her first film role at the age of 79!
Wood, you won.
How the socio-political events of the second half of the 20th century were refracted through the life story of the only Yugoslav Oscar winner, Dušan Vukotić, was presented by Senad Šahmanović in the documentary "Vude, you won!"
He also shed light on the importance of the cinematography of a small country like Yugoslavia on the global stage - Vukotić's "Surrogate" (1961) was the first non-American animated film to win an Oscar - and the departure of all that from the air, when its disintegration began.
Squid
Oliver Stone's latest documentary, Lula, follows Luiz Inacio da Silva, the president of Brazil. Stone explores the rise, fall and triumphant return of Brazil's beloved leader to the presidency in 2023 after 19 months in prison.
Put your soul in the palm of your hand and walk.
"Put your soul in the palm of your hand and walk" by Iranian director Sepida Farsi The Free Zone Festival announces as a film that made Cannes cry. Sepide Farsi made a documentary from a video interview with a girl, a photographer from Gauze, who through her lens tried to send a message of hope to the world through social networks. However, just a few weeks before the premiere in Cannes, she died, along with her entire family.
Come, the Free Zone is all over Serbia.
