Category: Maksimovic Galina
Beldocs 2016 – The frames of freedom or the lack of it
One of the youngest film festivals in Serbia, the Belgrade International Documentary Film Festivals – Beldocs, was held for the 9th time this May. For seven days, Belgrade was hosting a big cinematic celebration, open for documentary lovers with the most diverse taste. The slogan of this year’s edition of Beldocs, “Really free”, was not …
Giovanni Vimercati: Cinema originates from the world
One of the many guests of this year’s edition of the Belgrade International Documentary Film Festival was Giovanni Vimercati, a young film critic from Italy, who writes for numerous websites and publications (often under the pseudonym Celluloid Liberation Front) and runs his own blog, CLF Project. Giovanni was very kind to talk about the state …
Really free – an interview with Greg de Cuir
In the break between the wonderful movies screened on Beldocs, I talked to Greg de Cuir – writer, translator, author and the artistic director of the festival. Greg gave an interesting insight in film festival culture, observations regarding documentaries, Balkan films in general and, of course, Beldocs. What would you point out as the trademarks …
BELDOCS 2016 – Film Recommendations
This year’s edition of Belgrade International Documentary Film Festival BELDOCS has brought us a variety of thought-provoking, educational and fun movies. For all the film lovers who are seeking for their next documentary thrill – here is a short list of some of the finest movies screened this year. Chasing a Dream by Mladen Mitrović (Bosnia and …
Cinematography As A Language – A Reflection Text On Olympia Mytilinaiou’s Masterclass
At this very moment I am going through the notes I took while listening to this masterclass and I must admit I really haven’t written a lot. One of the reasons was my after-lunch sleepiness. The second reason is that this was more of an interactive than classic listen-and-write-it-down type of masterclass. The masterclass was …
Movies are for everyone. What about film criticism?
On the first day of the closing events of the Festival, Jean-Michel Frodon held a masterclass on the film criticism. Systematic and casual at the same time, this masterclass was very helpful. Being accustomed to consuming numerous online film critiques and ‘critiques’, I must admit I had a blurry vision of what film criticism should …
Galina about Athens
“In this year’s edition of AltCine Action, I was a big first timer – first time in Greece, first time on a film festival abroad, first time I had a chance to write movie critics, first time I’ve ever traveled by plane. As you can guess, I’ve had some mild fears about how will I …
A Breathtaking Night in Cinema
A Wonderful Night in Split/Ta divna splitska noć (Arsen Anton Ostojić, 2004, Croatia) Common stories, common relationship between a city and its people, common characters – and yet, everything depicted in an exceptional way. Ironically set on New Year’s Eve, in Split, Croatia, this black and white movie tells us three well associated stories. …