FAST FORWARD 2024 / Projections:
10/12/2024 / 20h00 / KCC “Budo Tomović” – Grand Hall / Podgorica
11/12/2024 / 20h35 / Cultural Centre / Berane
12/12/2024 / 18h30 / Cinema “Boka” / Kotor
Aleksandar Reljić / Serbia / 2024 / 77’
Director: Aleksandar Reljić
Producer: Aleksandar Reljić
Cooproducers: Sead Kreševljaković, Lejla Dedić, Dragana Obradović
Executive producer: Goran Filipaš
Director of photography: Goran Velemir
Editor: Zlatko Zlatković
Music: Mihajlo Obrenov, Milan Kerezović
Sound: Vladimir Rašković
Production: Core Dox
Co-production: Al Jazeera Balkans, BIRN Serbia
Supported by: Film Center of Serbia, City of Novi Sad
SYNOPSIS
Teodor Kovač (99), Ivan Ivanji (93), and Marta Flato (81) survived the 1942 pogrom known as the Novi Sad Raid, during which Hungarian fascists killed over a thousand Novi Sad residents and threw their bodies under the frozen Danube. Sociology professor Marija Vasić fights against forgetting and teaches students about the Novi Sad Raid, while local authorities are erecting a controversial monument to innocent victims. However, the list of names on the monument includes war criminals who participated in the raid.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Aleksandar Reljić was born in 1974 in Belgrade, Serbia. He is a journalist and the author of numerous television documentaries, primarily addressing topics within the realm of the culture of memory, war crimes, human rights protection, xenophobia, and interethnic relations in the former Yugoslavia. He is the author of the Documentary-educational programme of Radio Television of Vojvodina and served as the Editor-in-Chief of that department for two years. He has received multiple awards for his professional work. His film Enkel (Grandson) received several domestic and international awards and was nominated for the Best European Documentary Film of the 2018 Prix Europa Festival in Berlin. Since 2019, he has been running the independent film production company Core Dox from Novi Sad.
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
- The International Film Festival “First Frame” 2024 – specijalna nagrada / special award
- Beldocs IDFF 2024