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SLET 1988 – WORLD PREMIERE AT LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL

Our new film SLET 1988 will premiere in the Concorso Corti d’Autore section of the 78th Locarno Film Festival, August 6 to 16, 2025, in Locarno, Switzerland.

https://www.locarnofestival.ch/festival/program/film.html?fid=d5201ec2-f9eb-44abbea8- 6128778efa07&eid=
It will premiere at Locarno as part of the Pardi di Domani lineup, a key section dedicated to cinematic experimentation and emerging voices.

Bodies, architecture, and ideas age differently while passing together through time.
Sonja Vukićević (74), a dancer and choreographer from Belgrade, is known for her anti-Milošević activism and her monumental solo at the final Youth Day celebration in Yugoslavia in 1988 – just before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the beginning of Yugoslav wars.

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History Never Repeats Itself – An interview

An interview with Ana Vujanović by Olia Sosnovskaya
Berlin, November 2020

pARTisankA, A magazine for contemporary Belarusian culture, No. 35 ‘Your past — our future?’, 2021

In the midst of the ongoing political crisis and uprising in Belarus, which brings many hopes and desires, there is an urge to think about the complex temporalities and geographies of political struggles. Olia Sosnovskaya talks to Ana Vujanović, a cultural worker in the fields of contemporary performing arts and culture: researcher, dramaturge, writer and lecturer, based in Berlin and Belgrade. The interview turns to the not so distant turbulent history of Yugoslavia and Serbia, the political change and its aftermaths. Given the differences in the Soviet and Yugoslav systems, moving across geographies and histories might be crucial for understanding the present moment and for articulation of the demands and political imaginaries of the common futures. It addresses the relation between cultural and political practices and the power of performance art and theory in approaching the complex, multiple and fluid forms of civil resistance.

 

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