The annual Serbian Film Festival (SFF) is returning to Australia for the 17th time. Films will be screening at Hoyts cinemas from 24 Nov to 10 Dec across Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide and Fremantle. А leading international operatic mezzo-soprano Milijana Nikolic continues to be a proud supporter of the Serbian Film Festival and this year she will be onstage for the first time as an SFF Ambassador.
Over the past 16 years, audiences through Australia have viewed over 100 Serbian feature and documentary films.
Serbian films at this year festival:
SFF - OUT OF WOODS – This emotional story follows the struggle of Stojanka, a grandmother who had to leave the city life and return to her home village, to raise two grandchildren because her son and daughter in law left to find work overseas.
SFF - HERD – This hilarious satirical comedy is about life behind the camera. More often than not a greater drama precedes a film or TV drama which we see on the screen.
SFF - REQUIEM FOR MRS J - Jelena’s husband died a year ago and despite sharing her flat with her two daughters and mother in law, she feels tired and lonely and she has had enough.
SFF - SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE – The film narrates a tormented love story between one of the most famous Serbian poets, Laza Kostic (1841 – 1910) renowned for his sublime poetic puns and word coining and an enchanting your girl – Lenka, educated and refined daughter of a wealthy landowner, Lazar Dundjerski.
SFF – TRAIN DRIVER’S DIARY – The film is about accidental ‘killers’. Statistics show that during their career every train driver unintentionally ‘kills’ 15 to 20 people.
More info: https://www.hoyts.com.au/movies/events/serbian_film_festival.aspx
