Warm Film

After one Serbian tabloid attacked the production for making the film with a potential queer subject, the two young actors start exploring the topic of representation of LGBTIQ characters through the history of Yugoslav and later Serbian cinema, but also the social circumstances that have resulted in different treatment of these characters. What did the presence of queers in cinema actually mean through the decades?

Both screenings include a Q&A with the director Dragan Jovićević.

TOPLI FILM | Dragan Jovićević | 2024 | Serbia

FESTIVALS & AWARDS (SELECTION) 

Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, 2024 – Official Competition, Citizen Queer | BELDOCS, 2024  –  Serbian Competition Programme

DIRECTOR’S BIO 

Dragan Jovicevic finished Film Studies at The Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He is the author of many short films, video art and installations. His video The Legend of Tsunami was part of International Design Week in 2014. Currently, he is filming the short stop-motion film Roxanda. As a former editor of culture and film critic, Jovicevic has published several film books, many short stories, novellas, theoretical studies and essays. He was also the producer of a documentary program at the National Serbian Broadcast Avala and is the founder of the independent production company Greifer, which brings together numerous artists from different artistic fields and produces different visual forms.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

WARM FILM is based on research about the representation of LGBTQ people through the art of cinema, during the different periods of Yugoslavia. The film is structured from archive materials, interviews and fiction film, about young actors who face the truth that they are going to be introduced to the big screen playing the gay character.