From Footie in Sudan to World War I

The seventh edition of the festival, starting on May 8th, opens with screenings at the Sava Centre of movies about fascinating people.

The first is ‘The football coach Zoran and the African tigers’ by British film director Sam Benstead, which tells the story how coach Zoran Djordjevic created the first national team in the newly founded country of South Sudan.

The other is ‘My craft’, by Serbian director Mladen Maticevic, which deals with the popular and much admired Croatian songwriter and performer Arsen Dedic.

Over seven days, the festival will bring audiences 34 of the best documentary movies from an international and domestic selection, divided into several programmes: Competition Programme (domestic), International Programme, 3D, Beldocs Supports, Out-of-Competition, Kosovo and Metohija in Focus, and a special programme dedicated to the centenary of the World War I.

Four screenings will take place in the other venues of Beldocs, at the Youth Cultural Centre, DOB, the Cultural Centre of Belgrade, DKCB, the Fontana and Cineplex cinemas and the Cultural Centre of the University Campus, DKSG.

In the competition programme, audiences will get a chance to see the historic documentary ‘Inertion of the past’, by Dejan Vrazalic, which focuses on the mass protests in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Podogorica and Skopje by people who went out onto the streets to oppose cooperation with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on March 27, 1941.

These two movies will compete with ten domestic documentary movies in the official competition programme of Beldocs.

In the competition are also ‘Borders that Disappear’, by Iva Radivojevic, ‘2&2’, by Vladimir Perovic, ‘zivan starts a Punk Festival’, by Ognjen Glavonic, ‘The...