INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA

Sa Wa Liu Tang De Fang Xiang / The Storage 
2021. / 93’, China, Serbia, Documentary

Directed by Chen Danyan

Produced by Wang Ye, Dragan Đurković

Production company: Tencent Pictures, Vision Team

Burdened with Yugoslavia’s rise and fall, an old editor in chief sticks to the state-owned publishing houses and bookstores, once brilliant but now on the verge of collapse. A young curator tries to use everyday objects from the former Yugoslavia to explore how the old way of life sustains life today. This is an Odysseus tour of the cultural heritage of Belgrade. A travelling Chinese writer passes through the area and explores the lives of the two characters from an outsider’s perspective. The film records what she sees, feels, and her pain. Though mountains and streams separated them, they face each other spiritually.

Chen Danyan 

As a well-known writer in Shanghai, Chen’s literary works are widely spread and published all over the world. The Storage is her first documentary film.

Dida

2021. / 78’, Switzerland, Documentary

Written and directed by Nikola Ilić, Corina Schwingruber Ilić 

Cast: Dida (Anđica Ilić), Baba (Dobrila Spasić), Nikola Ilić, Corina Schwingruber Ilić

Produced by Franziska Sonder, Karin Koch 

Production company: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG

Co-producer: Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen

Fifteen years ago, Nikola left Serbia to follow his heart to Switzerland. Since then, his life is shared between two countries and three women: his mother Dida, his grandmother and his wife. His mother has learning disabilities and has been dependent on the grandmother since ever. As grandmother is getting older, Belgrade is now calling Nikola back home. He can’t let his mother down, but he doesn’t want to give up his life in Switzerland. This forces him to face a moral dilemma: How can he help his mother live a life of independence without losing his own. A heartwarming and amusing documentary about a son who’s trying to step into his grandmother’s shoes.

 

Nikola Ilić (1977)

Director and cinematographer living between Serbia and Switzerland. In 2010 he majored in Video at the Lucerne School of Art and Design. He’s the co-director of KOD ĆOŠKA (2013) and JUST ANOTHER DAY IN EGYPT (2015). His latest short RAKIJADA (2016), was shown all over the world and won various prices. He’s the DOP of the well-received short ALL INCLUSIVE (2018) by Corina Schwingruber Ilić.

 

 

 

 

Corina Schwingruber Ilić (1981)

Studied at the University of Arts in Basel, in Belgrade, and at the Lucerne School of Art and Design. She has shot a number of award-winning short docs together with Nikola Ilić, such as KOD ĆOŠKA (2013) or JUST ANOTHER DAY IN EGYPT (2015). Her shorts BAGGERN (2011) and INS HOLZ (Co-director: Thomas Horat, 2017) became festival hits, ALL INCLUSIVE (2018) was selected at over 200 festivals such as Venice, Toronto and Sundance and was honoured with the Golden Dove of DOK.Leipzig, among many other awards.

Film selection: InterFilm Berlin Festival

Izbor najboljih igranih i animiranih kratkometražnih filmova sa međunarodnog filmskog festivala kratkog metra InterFilm u Berlinu, 2021. Godine direktora Hajnca Hermansa. InterFilm je jedan od najvećih i najuglednijih svetskih festivala kratkometražnog filma. Osnovan je 1982. Godine u Berlinu. Filmovi sa ovog festivala ulaze u konkurenciju za “Oskara”.

Selection of highlights with live-action and animation shorts from the Interfilm Berlin international short film festival 2021 curated by festival director Heinz Hermanns. Interfilm Berlin is one of the biggest and most renowned international short film festivals worldwide. It was founded in 1982 in Berlin. It is an Oscar-qualifying film festival.

 

Tales from the Multiverse
2020 / 7’,  Denmark
Directed by Magnus Igland Møller, Mette Tange, Peter Smith

Imagine there was a God who created the world with a computer game…

 

Daily Massacre in Tehran
2020 / 15’, Iran

 Directed by Hessam Hamidi 

A day in Teheran. In the bustle of the market, a boy stays afloat by making money with chickens in a creative way.

 

Don vs Lightning
2021 / 13’, England, Scotland

 Directed by: Johnny Burns, Pier van Tijn 

When Don is struck by lightning not once but several times, he begins to worry that his calm, ordered life might never be the same again. It’s hard to say what’s more unpleasant: the repeated lightning strikes or the concerned attention of the other inhabitants in his town.

 

Sola in Discesa /Going Down Alone
2020 / 6’, Italy

Directed by: Michele Bizzi & Claudia di Lascia 

A woman travels back in time via a symbolic elevator and meets all the men who abused her both mentally and physically.

 

Away
2020 / 15’,  China 

Directed by: Weijia Zhou 

Production: Nanjing University of Arts – Nanjing

A girl, Xi An, admires her neighbour Xiao Mi. When the two get to know one another, the former realises that the latter is stuck in an unhappy marriage. Now Xi An tries to find a way out for her new friend. 

 

Demonstration
2021 / 7’, Sweden

Directed by Henrik Johansson 

Police officer Mikaela and her colleague Robert are giving a presentation about their profession in front of a school class. Robert demonstrates his authority by illustrating an assault. Alas, he takes things too far.

 

Popcorngutten / Popcorn Boy
2020 / 11’, Norway

Directed by Line Klungseth Johansen, Christian Lo 

Once upon a time there was a boy … who suddenly started sneezing floating popcorn. A bankrupt investor sees his chance to make a profit.

 

BusLine 35A
2021 / 6’, Denmark

Directed by Elena Felici 

During a bus ride, a man harasses a young woman in the back row of seats. Although this is plain for all to see, none of the other passengers intervenes.

 

Poke The Bouncer
2020 / 11’ 30’’,  Finland

Directed by Aleksi Salmenperä 

A night club bouncer is disgusted by all the violence and repression towards the disadvantaged on the street. So, he sews himself a costume and resolves to help.

Halina Konopacka

2022. / 1’ 56’’, Serbia, Poland, Animated

Filmmaking Team: Dana Vukajlović, Katarina Milin i Nataša Glišović 

Production company: Fakultet primenjenih umetnosti u Beogradu, Ambasada Poljske u Beogradu

 

Halina Konopacka (1900–1989) was a famous Polish athlete and the first Polish Olympic Champion. She took part in the 1928 Summer Olympic Games in Amsterdam, where she won a gold medal in the discus throw, breaking her own world record. In 1931 she retired from competitive sports but continued to ski, play tennis, and participate in car races. After the outbreak of World War II, she supported her husband in bringing the Polish National Bank gold out of the country. She founded a skiing school in the state of New York, designed clothing, and ran a boutique. At the age of 60, she completed an art college and became a painter. In 1989 she received the Silver Cross of Merit. After her death, her ashes were brought to Poland and buried in her parents’ grave on the Bródno Cemetery in Warsaw.

 

Dana Vukajlović, Katarina Milin i Nataša Glišović 

Master’s students at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade in the module Animation, Department of Applied Graphics, with prof. Rastko Ćirić and assosiate prof. Iva Ćirić. All three got their BA in animation in 2020: Dana with the film Game, Katarina with Symbiosis, and Nataša with Network, awarded at the Balkanima ’20  festival in Belgrade. All three are preparing new auteur films.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 World premiere