Beldocs Festival Chief Holds Minute’s Silence for Victims of Mass Shootings in Serbia Ahead of Festival Opening in Belgrade
variety.comTara Karajica On Tuesday, on the eve of the opening of Belgrade’s Beldocs Film Festival, festival director Mara Prohaska Markovic sent her condolences to the families of those killed in two mass shootings in Serbia in recent weeks, including one in Belgrade.
After a minute’s silence, Prohaska Markovic presented the films that will screen in the 16th edition of the festival, which runs May 10-17.
The festival opens with Mladen Kovačević’s “Another Spring,” about the 1972 smallpox epidemic in Yugoslavia, and will close with a film about Serbian rapper Dalibor Andonov Gru, “Gru Is Here.” The program, whose recurrent themes include relationships and the importance of land, has a total of 105 films, among which are nine world and four international premieres, as well 91 Serbian premieres, spread across the two competition programs, and several sidebar sections.
Ten films will play in the International Competition Program, which are as follows: In Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento’s “Adieu Sauvage,” the filmmaker, a descendant of the Cácuas, an almost extinct indigenous Colombian group, explores the feelings, love and the loneliness of Indigenous communities in the Amazon, and reconnects with his own roots.
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