Cinema Current

Cinema Current brings together films that refuse to play nicely. They resist the forms we might expect from their subjects: fantasy becomes a form of resistance, beauty becomes as disruptive as confrontation, and private stories take on a political dimension. These are films that find their own forms rather than simply inherit them.

What connects these films is a willingness to let cinema become strange and a refusal of easy resolution. Contradictions are left open, making room for ambiguity rather than closing it down. Their politics are often found not in what they declare, but in how they make us experience something, leaving us to think for ourselves.

Marko Grba Singh and Stefan Malešević, film programmers

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  Black Money for White Nights
  A couple in their sixties secretly save bribe money to fulfil their lifelong dream, but when a travel scam wipes out their savings, buried family conflicts and moral compromises rise to the surface.
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  Desire Lines
  An insomniac loner in Belgrade obsessively tracks his younger brother’s suspicious movements, only to realise that the mystery lies within himself.
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  Fantasy
  Three tomboy friends in Slovenia find their ideas about gender, desire and identity challenged when they meet Fantasy, a trans woman.
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  God Will Not Help
  A traditional mountain community goes into turmoil when a mysterious foreigner arrives claiming to be the wife of a man who left them many years ago.
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  How Come It’s All Green Out Here?
  A filmmaker accompanies his father to Croatia to rebury his refugee grandmother, on a journey that unsettles his memories of family, home and the past.
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  Mergen
  While investigating a hunter’s death in a remote Kyrgyz mining town, a young investigator is haunted by the same visions that once drove his father to madness.
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  On Our Own
  Left alone while her parents work abroad, a self-reliant fourteen-year-old sees a chance to build the family she is missing when two runaway siblings enter her life.
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  Only Beautiful Things to Look At
  In 1980s Czechoslovakia, a gynaecologist’s friendship with a young Romani orderly forces her to confront her role in the state-sponsored sterilisation of Romani women.
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  Promised Spaces
  From a crowded worker dormitory, from an empty gated community, they face a skyline of unfinished towers.
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  Sermon to the Void
  As the world comes to an end, Shah Ismail embarks on a quest for the Water of Life.
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  Shame and Money
  After a family betrayal costs them their livelihood, a farming couple from rural Kosovo move to the capital Pristina, where the struggle to survive tests the limits of their pride and dignity.
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  Until the Day Ends
  Set against the backdrop of Serbia’s ongoing protests, an anarchist student and a pro-government young man find themselves fleeing Belgrade together.