Cycle
From 15.05. To 22.05.2022.
15th Subversive Festival
15. Subversive Festival
More information on: subversivefestival.com
DIRECTORS
Films in cycle
Working Class Heroes
(Serbia, 2022)
Directed by: Miloš Pušić
PHOTOGRAPHY: Aleksandar Ramadanović
Synopsis:
Lidija (Jasna Đuričić) is a cold-hearted business woman working for a construction investor of dubious morals. Lidija’s main task is to oversee the work of the illegal workers working on the construction site and protect the image of the company at all costs. In the meantime, the workers are brought face to face with the brutal reality of capitalism. Unpaid and exhausted, they have to take their fate in their own hands. When they decide to stand up for their rights, the construction s...
color, 85’
PROJECTION:
Sunday 15.05.2022 AT 20:00
Kamuflaža
(Camuflaje, Argentina, 2022)
Directed by: Jonathan Perel
PHOTOGRAPHY: Joaquín Neira
Synopsis:
In Camouflage, writer Félix Bruzzone embodies a runner who has an obsession with Campo de Mayo, the biggest military unit in Argentina. It is also the place where his mother disappeared in 1976 and the main clandestine center of detention, torture and extermination during the last dictatorship. The film will follow Félix as he finds characters that allow him to enter and explore this place so loaded with history.
color, 93'
PROJECTION:
Monday 16.05.2022 AT 17:30
The Cathedral
(USA, 2021)
Directed by: Ricky D'Ambrose
PHOTOGRAPHY: Barton Cortright
Synopsis:
An only child's meditative, impresionistic account of an American family's rise and fall over two decades.
color, 87'
PROJECTION:
Monday 16.05.2022 AT 19:15
Rupa
(Il Bucco, Italy, France, Germany, 2021)
Directed by: Michelangelo Frammartino
PHOTOGRAPHY: Renato Berta
Synopsis:
During the economic boom of the 1960s, Europe’s highest building is being built in Italy’s prosperous North. At the other end of the country, young speleologists explore Europe’s deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. The bottom of the Bifurt Abyss, 700 meters below Earth, is reached for the first time. The intruders’ venture goes unnoticed by the inhabitants of a small neighbouring village, but not by the old shepherd of the Pollino plateau whos...
color, 93'
PROJECTION:
Monday 16.05.2022 AT 21:00
Myanmar Diaries
(Netherlands, Myanmar, Norway, 2022)
Directed by: The Myanmar Film Collective
PHOTOGRAPHY: The Myanmar Film Collective
Synopsis:
Hidden from the world's TV cameras, life under Myanmar’s junta of terror in the aftermath of last year's military coup has been largely invisible. As an act of creative resistance, the anonymous Myanmar Film Collective composed this feature-length film by blurring reality and fiction, all segments from their first-person perspective, woven together with blood-chilling eye-witness ...
color, 70'
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 17.05.2022 AT 18:00
Mutzenbacher
(Austria, 2022)
Directed by: Ruth Beckermann
PHOTOGRAPHY: Johannes Hammel
Synopsis:
Dokumentarna konkurencija Josephine Mutzenbacher ili Pripovijest bečke kurve je erotska knjiga objavljena početkom 20. stoljeća. Knjiga anonimnog autora (pretpostavlja se da je u pitanju austrijski pisac i kritičar židovskog podrijetla Felix Salten najpoznatiji kao autor Bambija) bila je desetljećima zabranjena i stekla je popriličnu notornost u Austriji i šire. Usprkos tvrdnji u naslovu knjigu je najvjerojatnije napisao muškarac stavljajući se u...
color, 100'
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 17.05.2022 AT 19:15
The Inheritance
(USA, 2020)
Directed by: Ephraim Asili
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ephraim Asili
Synopsis:
Igrana konkurencija U ovim politički nabijenim vremenima bilo je neizbježno da američki nezavisni film ponovno pronađe inspiraciju u crnačkoj misli 1960-ih i ljevičarenju naklonjenom europskom art filmu iz istoga perioda. Julian nasljeđuje kuću svoje bake u zapadnoj Philadelphiji. Dok istražuje misaono nasljedstvo inkorporirano u brojnim knjigama i gramofonskim pločama prostor prerasta u sjedište crnačkog marksističkog kolektiva, nalik lokalnoj crnačkoj zajednici i organizaciji MOVE koju...
color, 100'
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 17.05.2022 AT 21:15
Dogwatch
(Greece, France, 2022)
Directed by: Gregoris Rentis
PHOTOGRAPHY: Thomas Tsiftelis
Synopsis:
To safeguard the passage of goods through the so-called High Risk Area off the Somali coastline, privately-hired mercenaries are placed on board vessels to tackle the threat of modern maritime piracy. Dogwatch unfolds in three chapters: Yorgos, a fresh recruit, having completed his training, craves to enter the High Risk Area, but has to first bide his time in the Sri Lankan port-town of Galle in what seems like an endless wait for his first transit. Seasoned Costa, at the peak of his career, e...
color, 78'
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 18.05.2022 AT 17:30
Krai
(Austria, 2021)
Directed by: Aleksej Lapin
PHOTOGRAPHY: Adrian Campean
Synopsis:
Dokumentarna konkurencija Redatelj Aleksej Lapin putuje u selo Jutanovka na rusko-ukrajinskoj granici gdje je kao dječak provodio ljetne praznike. Filmska ekipa obavještava lokalce da žele u njihovom selu snimiti povijesni film. Najavljeni filmski projekt dakako samo je izlika, ali svejedno se rado odazivaju. Umirovljena učiteljica prisjeća se kako ju je partija skoro izbacila jer je ukrala boju s gradilišta da bi ofarbala školu. Farm...
b/w, 123'
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 18.05.2022 AT 19:00
All Light, Everywhere
(USA, 2021)
Directed by: Theo Anthony
PHOTOGRAPHY: Corey Hughes
Synopsis:
All Light, Everywhere explores the personal and philosophical relationships between cameras and weaponry. Once again, as in his acclaimed debut feature Rat film, director Theo Anthony roots his inquiry in Baltimore, a city that has long been a testing ground for new policing technologies. Using the rise of police body cameras as a point of departure, Anthony creates a kaleidoscopic portrait of our shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. Moving from the 19th century, where th...
color, 105'
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 18.05.2022 AT 21:15
El Planeta
(USA, Spain, 2021)
Directed by: Amalia Ulman
PHOTOGRAPHY: Carlos Rigo Bellver
Synopsis:
El Planeta is a dark comedy exploring contemporary poverty, female desire, and the always complicated filial relationships of mothers and daughters. After her father’s death, Leo leaves her life as a fashion student in London and returns to her hometown of Gijón, Spain, where her mother is on the verge of eviction. The two survive by selling personal items online and running up tabs based on extensive lies. Their impending misfortune does not stop the pair from dressing up in their...
b/w, 79'
PROJECTION:
Thursday 19.05.2022 AT 18:00
À demain mon amour
(France, 2021)
Directed by: Basile Carré-Agostini
PHOTOGRAPHY: Basile Carré-Agostini
Synopsis:
Dokumentarna konkurencija Šarmantan dokumentarac o bračnom paru Monique i Michelu Pinçon-Charlotu, francuskim sociolozima i autorima knjiga Nasilje bogatih i Predsjednik ultra-bogatih. Kronika klasnog prezira u politici Emmanuela Macrona. Monique i Michel zajedno su više od 50 godina i mogli bi živjeti ugodan i miran umirovljenički život u svojem ljupkom domu u okolici Pariza. No kako da se odmore kada se treba boriti protiv kapitalizma? Les&nb...
color, 92'
PROJECTION:
Thursday 19.05.2022 AT 19:30
El Gran Movimiento
(Bolivija, Qatar, France, Švicarska, UK, 2021)
Directed by: Kiro Russo
PHOTOGRAPHY: Pablo Paniagua
Synopsis:
Bolivia, today. After walking for a week, Elder and his miner companions arrive in La Paz to demand for the reinstatement of their job. Suddenly, Elder starts to feel sick... With the help of the elderly Mamá Pancha, Elder and his friends find work in the market. But Elder’s condition worsens, he’s choking and struggling for breath... Mamá Pancha sends him to Max - a witch doctor, hermit and clown - who may be able to bring the young man back to life.
color, 85'
PROJECTION:
Thursday 19.05.2022 AT 21:15
107 Mothers
(Cenzorka, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukrajina, 2021)
Directed by: Péter Kerekes
PHOTOGRAPHY: Martin Kollar
Synopsis:
Lesya has committed a crime of passion which brings her a seven-year sentence in one of Odessa’s women’s correctional facilities. She has just given birth to her first child, and now she is entering a world populated only by women: inmates, nurses and wardens, women of all ages, wives and widows, daughters, sisters, pregnant women, and women with children. If not for the colour of the uniform, it would sometimes be hard to tell who is who.
color, 93'
PROJECTION:
Friday 20.05.2022 AT 17:30
The Tale of King Crab
(Re granchio, Italy, France, Argentina, 2021)
Directed by: Alessio Rigo de Righi
PHOTOGRAPHY: Simone D'Arcangelo
Synopsis:
Italy, today. Some elderly hunters reminisce about the local tale of Luciano. Luciano lives as a wandering drunkard in a remote village of the region called Tuscia. Spiteful actions ensue between him and the prince of the region over the right of passage through an ancient gateway. Fueled by passions and jealousy, these actions result in a horrible misdeed. Now an unfortunate criminal, Luciano is exiled to the distant Tierra del Fuego where, with the help of ruthless gold-diggers, he searches fo...
color, 105'
PROJECTION:
Friday 20.05.2022 AT 19:15
Unclenching the Fists
(Razzhimaya kulaki, Russia, France, 2021)
Directed by: Kira Kovalenko
PHOTOGRAPHY: Pavel Fomintsev
Synopsis:
The small mining town of Mizur lies high in the mountains of North Ossetia betweensteep cliffs. Zaur has settled his family here. He keeps his sons and daughter on a shortleash, blind to the line that separates fatherly concern from overprotectiveness. Hiseldest, Akim, has already run off to the nearest city, Rostov, to find work. Meanwhile,his youngest, Dakko, isn’t entirely sure &...
color, 97'
PROJECTION:
Friday 20.05.2022 AT 21:15
The Novelist's Film
(Soseolgaui Yeonghwa, Južna Koreja, 2022)
Directed by: Hong Sang-soo
PHOTOGRAPHY: Hong Sang-soo
Synopsis:
A female novelist takes a long trip to visit a book-store, run by a younger colleague who has fallen out of touch. Then she goes up a tower on her own and runs into a film director and his wife. They take a walk in a park and meet an actress, after which the novelist tries to convince the actress to make a film with her. She and the actress get something to eat, then revisit the bookstore where a group of people are drinking. The actress gets drunk and falls asleep...
color, 92'
PROJECTION:
Saturday 21.05.2022 AT 17:30
How to Save a Dead Friend
(Sweden, Norway, France, Germany, 2022)
Directed by: Marusja Siroječovskaja
PHOTOGRAPHY: Marusja Siroječovskaja, Kimi Morev
Synopsis:
Marusja ima 16 godina i poput zabrinjavajućeg broja ruskih tinejdžera želi se ubiti. No onda sretne svoju srodnu dušu u obličju drugog milenijalca Kimija. Postaju nerazvojni i snimaju naizmjenična razdoblja euforije i tjeskobe, sve sretne i tužne trenutke vlastite mladosti, sagorijevajući svijeću s oba kraja uz puno droge i glazbe na tom lošem tripu 2000-ih. Par zajedno provede čitavu dekadu i bilježi sve što nosi odrastanje u nasilnom i autokratskom režimu. No polako se uda...
color, 103'
PROJECTION:
Saturday 21.05.2022 AT 19:15
Fire (Both Sides of the Blade)
(Avec amour et acharnement, France, 2022)
Directed by: Claire Denis
PHOTOGRAPHY: Eric Gautier
Synopsis:
Sara i Jean u stabilnoj su vezi već deset godina. Čine se sretnima. On je njezina stijena, netko na koga se može osloniti. Kada su se prvi put upoznali Sara je bila u vezi s Françoisom, Jeanovim najboljim prijateljem. Jednoga dana Sara vidi Françoisa na ulici. On nju ne vidi, no preplavljuje ju osjećaj da bi joj se život mogao drastično promijeniti. François se uskoro javlja Jeanu i predlaže mu da ponovno zajedno rade. Stvari iznenada izmiču kontroli. Obje strane ošt...
color, 116'
PROJECTION:
Saturday 21.05.2022 AT 21:15
See You Friday, Robinson
(À vendredi, Robinson, France, 2022)
Directed by: Mitra Farahani
PHOTOGRAPHY: Daniel Zafer, Mitra Farahani, Fabrice Aragno
Synopsis:
Duras/Godard dijalozi Prije nekoliko godina Mitra Farahani imala je ideju. Mogla bi organizirati susret između dvojice velikih redatelja koji se, iako pripadaju istoj generaciji, nikad nisu sreli uživo: Jean-Luc Godard švicarski maestro kojeg ne treba posebno predstavljati i manje poznati Ebrahim Golestan, čija književna i filmska djela tvore temelje moderne iranske kulture (npr. Cigla i zrcalo, 1965) – dvojica pustinjaka koji su pokrenuli političku i tehničku revoluciju na fi...
color, 96'
PROJECTION:
Sunday 22.05.2022 AT 16:00
I Want to Talk About Duras
(Vous ne désirez que moi, France, 2021)
Directed by: Claire Simon
PHOTOGRAPHY: Céline Bozon
Synopsis:
A man involved in a passionate relationship with a celebrated writer of 30 years his senior needs to talk. He is fascinated by her and yet he feels he just cannot go on anymore. He opens up, in an attempt to put into words the intensity of his love.
color, 95'
PROJECTION:
Sunday 22.05.2022 AT 18:00
Nature
(La Nature, France, Armenija, Germany, 2020)
Directed by: Artavazd Pelešjan
Synopsis:
DODJELA WILD DREAMERA Uvjeren sam da film može dočarati određene stvari koje nijedan svjetski jezik ne može prevesti. Za mene on se vraća u vrijeme prije Babilonske kule, prije podjele na različite, međusobno nerazumljive jezike. Artavazd Pelešjan Razgovor između Artavazda Pelešjana i Jean-Luc Godarda, intervju je vodio Jean-Michel Frodon, Le Monde, 2. travnja, 1992. Više od 25 godina nakon svojeg prethodnog filma 82. godišnji armenski redatelj iznenadio je svijet...