Acclaimed director Goran Radovanović (1957, Serbia) studied art history at Belgrade’s Faculty of Philosophy. He started working in films in the late 1980s and has made several documentaries about Serbia. His feature film Enclave (2015) was Serbia’s candidate for the Academy Award for a foreign language film. Radovanović is a member of the European Film Academy and the Association of Film Artists of Serbia and is still creating films to this day. This retrospective will uncover his films, give the audience a unique opportunity to watch Balkan cinema in the big and cosy Cavia screen, and dive deep into Serbian reality.
 

Columba Urbica
Goran Radovanovic | 1995 | Serbia | 8’ 

Present day: a small village somewhere in rural Serbia. Reports on the upcoming parliamentary elections drone from the radio while a local traffic policeman tries to teach his old grandmother how to use a mobile phone. Glimpses of this old lady, who lives a lonely life on a remote farm, become the red thread running through the film with its snapshot-like portraits of everyday life in the tiny community. There's the grocer's shop the men visit to talk about money and politics. Or the postman who delivers on his moped the ballot papers for the forthcoming elections. The policeman who stops cars as he fancies. The school with a handful of children in the overlarge classroom. The pub in which something approaching merriment occasionally arises. And the recurrent visits to the old peasant woman: Her matter-of-fact inventory of aches and pains delivered to the local doctor, her worries about increasing thievery confided in the village priest.

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The Makavejev Case or Trial in a Movie Theater
Goran Radovanovic | 2018 | Serbia | 74’ | EN subtitles

The Makavejev Case or Trial in a Movie Theater explores the position of an artist in the Socialist FR Yugoslavia, focusing on the political and social climate that used public platforms to condemn the film WR: Mysteries of the Organism, under the auspices of the Communist Party.

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