17th Serbian Film Festival this year has opened at Hoyts Sunnybank in Brisbane on Friday 24 November, and openings tonight at Hoyts cinemas in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide and Fremantle. The festival program will feature five contemporary films, adding to well over 100 Serbian feature and documentary films screened throughout the past sixteen years in Australia. Sanja Damic reviewed all five films from this year SFF.
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
