THEN COMES THE EVENING
SERBIA — BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 21 MIN, 2019
RUSSIAN PREMIERE
ABOUT
The documentary depicts bittersweet life of two grannies living isolated on the hills of Eastern Bosnia. Nature is the entity with which grannies speak, listen to and respect. The film emphasizes the intangible cultural heritage, through the presentation of chants and rituals for taming the adverse weather, hail, and storm. It reflects the simplicity and purity of their way of life, as well as their painstaking work. The action of the film is the everyday life in the countryside, which shows the caring and intimacy of the grannies, both in their mutual relations and in the relationship with nature. Poetic tone of the frames relies on references from genre scenes of realism paintings.
DIRECTOR
MAJA NOVAKOVIC
Maja has completed her Bachelor’s Degree and Masters at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. She attended a film directing workshop at the Students’ City Cultural Centre — Academic Film Centre in Belgrade. Currently Novaković is doing her PhD studies with registered thesis «Poetics of heritage in the works of Sergei Parajanov» at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She is a researcher at the Centre for Museology and Heritology at the same university, and a research assistant at the Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
OTHER FESTIVALS
- Visions du Réel Nyon
- Hot Docs Toronto
- Sarajevo Film Festival
- Short film festival in Drama
- Reykjavik International Film Festival
- DokuBaku
- Silver Eye Award 2019 Nominees
- Entrevues Belfort International Film Festival
- Camerimage
- Bogoshorts
- Auteur Film Festival Belgrade
- Cinema Verite Iran
- Premiers Plans — Angers Film Festival
- 2ANNAS Riga
- Big Sky Film Festival
- MiradasDOCS
- Busan International Short Film Festival
- ZagrebDOX
- Full Frame Documentay Film Festival
- Vienna Shorts
- Trento Film Festival
SECTION
DOKer 2020 — Short Competition