Serbian Film Week in Havana
The Serbian Film Week (May 10-15, 2013) is coming to Havana with a dozen flicks that promise to pack a wallop among moviegoers in town. All films will be shown at the 23 y 12 Movie Theater in the Vedado area of the Cuban capital from 5:00pm to 8:00pm.
May 10: One-time show at 8 PM / THE TRAP / Klopka / Serbia-Germany-Hungary / 2007/ 106’/ Dir. Srdan Golubovic/ Actors: Nebojsa Glogovac, Natasa Ninkovic, Miki Manojlovic, Anica Dobra, Bogdan Diklic, Vuk Kostic / Drama / PG-16. In today’s Belgrade, the situation faced by the Mladen family is extremely dramatic: their son Nemanja has been diagnosed with a serious heart condition and doctors say that he should undergo surgery abroad. Obtaining the amount of money they need is nearly impossible. Nevertheless, when the family is on the brink of desperation, the father meets a man that is willing to give him that sum if he outsources the man’s business competitors.
May 11: HUDDERSFIELD/Hadersfild / Serbia / 2007 / (95’) / Dir. Ivan Zivkovic Actors: Goran Susljik, Nebojsa Glogovac, Vojin Cetkovic, Damjan Kecojevic, Josif Tatic, Suzana Lukic, Jelisaveta Sablic / Drama / PG-16. "Huddersfield" is a cruel portrait of contemporary Serbia. The action takes place in a small city of the Balkan state, and the main character is Rasa, a thirty-year-old man who lives with his alcoholic father and make a living by giving private lessons and working as a radio broadcaster. His friends are a teenaged girl who shares a bed with him, his psychotic neighbor and his two lifelong friends, one of whom has come to visit him after having lived for 11 years in Huddersfield (England).
May 12: I’LL BE THE KANGAROO WHEN I GROW UP / Kad porastem bicu Kengur / Serbia and Montenegro / 2004 / (98’) / Dir. Radivoje Andric Actors: Sergej Trifunovic, Marija Karan, Nebojsa Glogovac, Boris Milivojevic, Gordan Kicic, Nikola Vujovic / Comedy / PG-16. The whole Vozdovac neighborhood in Belgrade is excited with The Kangaroo, a young goalkeeper from the neighborhood who is presently playing in the British soccer league. The movie, a choral and urban comedy, tells the adventures of several members of that neighborhood. Braka, insecure and short on money, is dating a beautiful model; two young men long to become millionaires by betting on soccer games while the rest of the people in the bar look up at their local hero, who is playing a major match against the Manchester United.
May 13: KOSOVO: CAN YOU IMAGINE? / Kosovo: Can You Imagine? / Canada / 2009 / 30’ / Dir. Boris Malagurski / Documentary / PG-16. It’s focused on the Serbs that live in Kosovo and the lack of human rights currently faced by them in the 21st century. Most Serbian-Kosovar people have been ethnically thrashed by the Albanians, who prevail in Kosovo. This former Serbian province has been managed by the UN since 1999 when NATO bombed Serbia for 76 days in order to stop the Serbian offensive by Albanian separatists. After the war, thousands of Serbs were expelled out of their homes, kidnapped and murdered. Their houses and their religious and cultural premises were devastated. Kosovo represents to Serbian people what Jerusalem stands for Jews.
KENNEDY RETURNS HOME / Kenedi se vraca kuci / Serbia and Montenegro / 2003 / (78’) / Dir. Zelimir Zilnik Actors: Denis Ajeti, Orhan Berisa, Kenedi Hasani / Documentary / PG-16. The documentary tackles the experiences of two Rumanian men who have been deported from Germany to Belgrade and inserted in completely different social and economic conditions.
May 14: LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES / Ljubav i drugi zlocini / Serbia-Germany-Austria-Slovenia / 2008 / (106’) / Dir. Stefan Arsenijevic / Actors: Anica Dobra, Vuk Kostic, MilenaDravic, Fedja Stojanovic, Hanna Schwamborn / Drama / PG-16. The action takes place in a cold and gray winter day; Anica, the girlfriend of Milutin’s, who owns a solarium and is in the extortion business, has decided to walk away and start a new life away from Belgrade. She has planned to steal the safe at night and catch a plane. But young Stanislav, one of his boyfriend’s henchmen, is aware of her plans, and what’s worse, he has been in love with her for over 10 years, and this is the day to confess his love.
