Genres:
Documentary, Short-length
Director: Marta Popivoda
Operator: Ivan Marković
Screenwriter: Marta Popivoda, Ana Vujanović
Producer: Zsófi Lili Kovács, Jasmina Sijerčić, Marta Popivoda
Producer company : fiskultura films, Bocalupo Films, Theory at Work, Interfilm
Year: 2025
Country: Germany-France-Serbia
Duration: 22 min.
Languages: Serbo-Croatian
Description
Russian premiere
Dancer Sonja Vukićević (74) moves through spaces shaped by the era of Socialist Modernism, while her body, like an archive, preserves the memory of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. In her gestures, the rhythms of the past mingle with the present. At the same time, we hear fragments from the diary of a seventeen-year-old girl, which she kept in 1988. Together, they reveal the transition from socialist collectivism to a growing individualism, even as a new national collective body is already taking shape — one that would soon come to define the country’s future.
About the director:
Marta Popivoda
Filmmaker and artist. Her work focuses on the tensions between memory, history, and ideology, as well as the relations between the collective and the individual. It has been shown at major film festivals, including the Berlinale, Locarno, Rotterdam, and Visions du Réel, and presented at leading contemporary-art venues, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate Modern in London, MAXXI in Rome, the Manifesta biennial, and elsewhere. Her films and art projects have received many awards, including the Berlin Art Prize for Visual Arts. In 2024–2025 she took part in the Berlin Artistic Research Programme. Popivoda also teaches film at the University of the Arts in Amsterdam, and is a member of the European Film Academy.
