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COBA: SouthEast European Future Festival – 14-15 Sep 2019
Contemporary Balkan Art
presents a festival of Southeast European documentary film (14-15 September)
and photography exhibition (29 August – 15 September)
Rich Mix, Shoreditch
35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London E1 6LA
Mezzanine Gallery (29 August – 15 September)
PERSPECTIVES: PHOTOGRAPHY STORYTELLING
Which story do you want to tell? Fifteen resounding female documentary photographers attest that images can empower, drive social change and reframe harmful narratives. These artists stimulate critical thinking about local issues in relation to female lives – lives and human rights alike.
Photographers: Katja Goljat, Jelena Jankovic, Marija Jankovic, Imrana Kapetanovic, Boryana Katsarova,Sanja Knezevic, Glorija Lizde, Lazara Marinkovic, Dijana Muminovic, Mia Novakova, Andjela Petrovski, Roxana Pop, Senja Vild, Marcella Zanki and Jelena Zigic.
Film Programme (Saturday, 14 September 2019)
1.00pm IKEA FOR YU
A trip into the filmmaker’s own Yugoslav family history, full of twists and turns…
with English subtitles, 52min
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/277883401
2.30pm OCCUPIED CINEMA
A story about guerrilla action initiated by young activists taking over a privatised cinema in Belgrade…
with English subtitles, 87min
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/265475658
*Please note that the film will be followed by
Panel Discussion (4.30pm) – WHAT IS YUGOSLAVIA TO YOU?
Reading Act (7.00pm) – I THINK OF YOU (Mil Vukovic-Smart)
8.00pm NEBESKA TEMA
The life and music of Vlada Divljan…
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-1ImS9isDU
with English subtitles, 108min
Film Programme (Sunday, 15 September 2019)
12.00pm NEBESKA TEMA
The life and music of Vlada Divljan…
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-1ImS9isDU
with English subtitles, 108min
2.30pm BORN JUST NOW
An intimate look at Marta Jovanovic, a Belgrade-based artist struggling to cope with the violence that has ended an eight-year marriage…
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hESt2RtMOu4
in English, 84min
*Please note that the film will be followed by
Panel Discussion (4.00pm) – PERSPECTIVES: PHOTOGRAPHY STORYTELLING
6.00pm NAKED ISLAND
A tight-knit group of people brought together by the same place, a political prison in ex-Yugoslavia…
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/nakedisland/108116759
with English subtitles, 75min
8.00pm HONEYLAND
An insight into the life of Hatidze Muratova, the last of Macedonian wild beekeepers…
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/313774953
with English subtitles, 87min