One day, without warning, a revolution exploded. A million and a half people in the streets of Santiago, the Chilean capital, demanding justice, education, health care and a new constitution to replace the strident rules imposed on the country during the Pinochet military dictatorship. Urgent and topical, My Imaginary Country features harrowing front-line protest footage and interviews with the dynamic activist leaders who are bringing about a regime change.
Edina, a female bodybuilder is ready to sacrifice everything for the dream she shares with her life partner and trainer Ádám – to win the Miss Olympia. The odd love she finds on her way makes her see the difference between her dreams and her true self. Meanwhile, she has a strange relationship with a mysterious man. The meeting changes everything that she believed in until then.
At the beginning of 2020, the arrests of pedophiles, politicians and other public figures were pompously announced in all media. Instead of them, on the 28th of January, the police arrested fashion photographer, stylist and DJ from Novi Sad, Srđan Švelj. Before the official arrest, the media had already announced that Šveljo was a “pedophile”, who “raped, pimped, drugged and photographed boys for pornographic purposes”. The tabloids called him a monster and a predator and published his image on the front pages. They went so far as to call on the judges to give him the maximum sentence of 40 years in prison.
Mother of two, Julie, is making ends meet, getting by as the head chambermaid of a five-star hotel in Paris, with only sporadic alimony payments from her ex-husband. Each meticulously-planned day starts before sunrise, preparing the kids for school and undertaking a long commute to work, where she unflappably completes her duties in time to return to them. But when a national strike breaks out – paralysing the entire public transport system – Julie’s routine is thrown into chaos, increasingly pushing her into a frenetic race against time that threatens everything she’s worked so hard for.
With the moto „Louder than silence“, Centre for Civic Education (CCE) is organising the XIII edition of the FAST FORWARD Human Rights Film Festival Montenegro 2022 in Podgorica, Kotor and Berane. Central programme of this year’s Festival will be carried out from 10 to 14 December in Music Centre and Montenegrin Cinematheque in Podgorica, and …
The FAST FORWARD 2021 closes with TEREZA37, the best film of the Pula Film Festival 2020 and the Croatian candidate for the 2022 Oscar, directed by Danilo Šerbedžija, while the guest of the FAST FORWARD 2021 Festival is the main actress and screenwriter of the film Lana Barić.
The regional premiere of the American-Brazilian film “A machine to live in”, directed by Yoni Goldstein and Meredith Zielke, and co-written by Bojana Radulović, Montenegrin producer and artist, marks the fourth day of the Human Rights Film Festival FAST FORWARD Montenegrin 2021.
The universal language of film can make a significant contribution to understanding the universality of human rights, as it has the power to shake up and sensitize, especially when it comes to understanding the challenges some of the most marginalized groups face, such as people with disabilities. This was stated today at the panel discussion ‘PWDs between abilities and barriers in Montenegro – breaking the stigma’.
The opening of the Berane edition at the Berane Cultural Center, with the continuation of screenings and accompanying programmes in Podgorica and Kotor, marks the third day of the FAST FORWARD Festival 2021.
The FAST FORWARD Human Rights Film Festival Montenegro 2021 today presents three new Montenegrin premieres at the Montenegrin Cinematheque in Podgorica, and in ’Boka’ Cinema the Kotor edition will be opened.
FAST FORWARD Human Rights Film Festival Montenegro opened tonight at the Montenegrin Music Centre with the Montenegrin premiere of the Cannes winner “Compartment No. 6”, by Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen.
On the International Human Rights Day – 10 December, the Centre for Civic Education (CCE) invites citizens to be part of the XII edition of the Montenegrin Film Festival on Human Rights FAST FORWARD, which is organized from 11 to 15 December in Podgorica, Kotor and Berane, in order to give impulse to the affirmation of the culture of human rights in Montenegro.
In the early 1990s, young Finnish archeology student, Laura, escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow, by boarding a train to Murmansk in Russia’s far north in order to look at some ancient rocks. Forced to share the long ride in a tiny sleeping cabin with a rough, vodka-swilling Russian miner.
