Sonja Vukićević is known for her monumental dance solo at the final Youth Day celebration in Yugoslavia in 1988. Thirty-five years later, we see her moving body juxtaposed with the audio archive of a teenage girl's diary, recorded in this building block in 1988. It brings an intimate narrative of growing up amid the ideological shifts of a late socialist state. Amid an onslaught of large and loud changes, there was another change: the transition from collectivism to individualism. The film captures the glitch in a world caught between hope and uncertainty, between fading socialist collectivism and the promise of liberal individualism, while a new national collective body is creeping in and will soon shape the future of the country.
Germany, France, Serbia 2025, '23
DIRECTOR: Marta Popivoda
SCENARIO: Marta Popivoda, Ana Vujanović
CAMERA: Ivan Marković
MONTAGE: Jelena Maksimović
MUSIC: Simon Apostolou (Sound Design)
PRODUCERS: Zsófi Lili Kovács, Marta Popivoda
PRODUCTION: Teorija na delu
FESTIVALS & AWARDS:
Locarno Film Festival Festival 2025
Sarajevo Film Festival Festival 2025
Manaki 2025
BIEFF - Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival 2025
Reykjavík International Film Festival 2025
New York Film Festival 2025
Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia 2025
La Viennale 2025
Duisburger Filmwoche 2025
IDFA 2025
Kasseler Dokfest 2025
ZINEBI - Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films 2025
PORTO/POST/DOC 2025
Marta Popivoda
Marta Popivoda is a filmmaker, artist, and researcher. The main concerns in her work are the tensions between memory, history, and ideology, as well as the relations between collective and individual bodies. Popivoda approaches them from a feminist and queer perspective. Her work has been presented worldwide in the cinema and visual arts contexts, such as Berlinale, Locarno, IFFR, Visions du Réel, MoMA New York, Tate Modern London, MAXXI Rome, Manifesta Biennial, Berlin Biennale, etc., and featured in The Guardian, Sight & Sound, Screen, Artforum, and e-flux. She received numerous awards for her films and artwork, including the prestigious Berlin Art Prize for the Visual Arts at the Akademie der Künste Berlin. She teaches film at the University of the Arts in Amsterdam and is a member of the European Film Academy. She is a fellow of the Berlin Artistic Research Programme 2024-25.