8 th FORTECA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PERAST
26-30 July 2024, PERAST MONTENEGRO
PROGRAM – FIFFP 2024
Friday, 26.7.2024.
21.00 PERAŠKI TRG – MAIN SELECTION
OPENING CEREMONY with the Festival guests
Intro Exhibition PUT LJUBAVI, Vlastimir Gavrik
Film SNAGA LJUBAVI / Power of Love, 30 min
with Festival guest Aleksandra Gavrik
Tragovi / Traces,
Croatia, Lithuania, Serbia, 2022, drama, 98’, with English subtitles
Director Dubravka Turic
After the death of her father, young scientist Ana struggles with an identity crisis, being the last member of a once large family. The changes inside her are suddenly reflected in reality – loneliness, crisis, emigration – and her scientific research on mystical symbols and human traces left in stone are mysteriously intertwined with her life until she regains her confidence, moves on and finally stops hiding her vitiligo marks, traces of her traumas.
Cast: Marija Skaricic, Niksa Butijer, Lana Baric
Production: Kinorama, Tremora
Saturday, 27.7.2024.
12.00 Opening Exhibition SNAGA LJUBAVI / Power of Love,
in Old Town Perast, with Festival guest Aleksandra Gavrik
PANEL – Work and Oscar winning experiene of the scenographer Vlastimir Gavrik – daughter’s perspective
21.00 PERAŠKI TRG – MAIN SELECTION
Mamula all inclusive
2023, Serbia, Montenegro, Documentary, 60’
Director Aleksandar Reljic, Festival guest
Mamula all inclusive, 2023, Serbia, Montenegro, Documentary, 60’
Director Aleksandar Reljic
Ivo Markovic (89), a survivor of the notorious camp ran by Italian fascists during WWII, who was imprisoned as a nine year old child, witnessed how money can transform the place of torture, hunger and sufferings into a place of decadence, a SPA hotel resort, with pools and dance floors for wealthy clients, by the decision of the Montenegro authorities which signed the 49 year-lease contract with Egyptian tycoon Samih Sawiris to build a hotel. An Austro-Hungarian Mamula Fortress built in the mid 19th century was a concentration camp that held more than 2,000 people, where dozens of prisoners were killed, while more than a hundred died of starvation, from March 1942 to September 1943 till the Italian capitulation.
Producer: Dragan Gmizic,
Co-producers: Leila Dedic, Sead Kresevljakovic, Daliborka Uljare
Kajmak/Kaymak
North Makedonia, 2022, drama, 106’, with English subtitles
Director Milcho Manchevski
Kaymak is an irreverent love story – it’s also a critique of the contemporary illiberal hypocrisy.
A young, rich couple are on top of the world, when a distant relative comes to live with them. Meanwhile, the neighbours in the crumbling house down below are middle-aged and feeling left behind, when the husband starts an affair with a cheese-seller. The two families are respectable at the beginning, happy at the end.
Underneath its exploration of the eternal search for love, Kaymak tackles darker social issues – surrogate parenting, infidelity, woman’s role in family and society, human trafficking, sexual liberty…
Cast: Sara Klimoska, Kamka Tocinovski, Aleksandar Mikic, Simona Spirovska, Ana Stojanovska, Filip Trajkovikj
Production: Banana Film, Meta Film, N279 Entertainment, Jaako dobra produkcija
Sunday, 28.7.2024.
12.00 PANEL: FILMMAKING North-South with the Festival guests and regional filmmakers at Old Town Perast
19.30 Documentary and Short selection, at Crkva Roždestva Presvete Bogorodice – Perast
33 Andjela / 33 Angels,
Norway, 2023, Docuemntary 80’
Head director Branko Dimeski, Q&A with filmmaker
“33 Angels” delves deep into the tragedy of Serbian children from the regions of Kozara, Kordun, Banija, and Lika, who suffered in Nazi camps in Norway during World War II.
The youngest among the victims was only eleven years old. This film unveils a tragic truth suppressed and unknown to the Serbian people for eighty years, shedding light on the burial sites of Serbian children in Norway.
Through authentic testimonials and documentation, “33 Angels” serves as a factual account, offering a historical perspective on these events.
Many Norwegians risked their lives to save children from certain death in the camps.
Producer Branko Dimeski
Production Dan media Norway
21.00 PERAŠKI TRG – MAIN SELECTION
Tytöt tytöt tytöt / Girl Picture
Finland, 2022, drama, 102’
Directors:
Alli Haapasalo
Three young women try to defy the persistent winter darkness in Finland. In the process, they move between dreams, reality, friendship and relationships, and try to make sense of the whole mess.
Duseldorf, Skåne / Love Will Save US
Sweden, 2024, fiction, 94’
Director Patrik Blomberg Book
A coming-of-age drama about love, death, and synth music. The year is 1986 and it’s the end of summer. Fredrik – 19 and Nina -18, live in a small village in Skåne, Sweden. Fredrik is passionate about creating synth music and Nina dreams of becoming a photographer in Stockholm. Fredrik’s synth-pop band ”Vision Moderne” is set to perform their first gig, but meanwhile his parents are on the verge of ruining everything for him. It all comes to a head during the most crucial weekend of Fredrik’s life.
Cast: Erik Svedberg-Zelman, Rebecca Plymholt, Anna Blomberg, Magnus Schmitz, Karin Lithman, Daniel Gustavsson, Selma Modéer Wiking, Ian Henri, Vesta Viola Blomberg Book
Producer: Viktoria Blomberg Book
Production: Fat City Pictures
Monday, 29.7.2022.
12.00: PANEL: TRAGOVI PROSLOSTI / TRACES OF THE PAST, with the Festival guests and regional filmmakers Old Town Perast
15.00 Gospa od Škrpjela boat visit –A tour of the cinematic Perast assembling at Perast Square at 15.00
19.00 Documentary and Short selection, at Crkva Roždestva Presvete Bogorodice – Perast
Potreba za mržnjom/Recipe for Hate,
Serbia, 2020, documentary, 81’ 10’’, Director: Filip Čolovic, Q&A with the director
Looking at old photographs of his younger brother who was murdered in a fight one summer night, the director of the movie searches for the roots of violence and hate in our society.
Producer: Filip Čolovic
20.00 FILM FOR CHILDREN and Workshop – Peraški trg
Duga/Rainbow, 2021, Montenegro, short film, 16’55’’, no text
Directed and Edited by: Aleksandar Vujović
A film that recounts an event from a boy’s memory from early childhood. As a boy of 5 years old he embarks on a journey with his father and experiences a magical moment. He realizes his life’s vocation, the call of the artist.
Production: Apulia Film Commission
Executive Production: Boka F
Screenwriter: Jelena Lela Milošević
Cast: Nikša Radojičić, Miloš Pejović, Ana Vučković and Đorđije Tatić.
21.00 PERAŠKI TRG – MAIN SELECTION
Together 99 / Tillsammans 99,
Sweden, comedy, 2023, comedy, drama, 115’
director Lukas Moodysson
A group of very different individuals who in 1975 lived in a commune called “Together”. Now it is 1999, and the collective has turned into the world’s smallest. The commune consists of only two people – Göran and Klasse. Feeling a bit lonely, the idea occurs of a reunion with their old friends.
cast: Gustaf Hammarsten, Jonas Karlsson, Anja Lundqvist, Olle Sarri,
Thuesday, 30.7.2024.
12.00 – FILM in Montenegro – Round table at Conte Restaurant
20.00 FILM FOR CHILDREN and Workshop – Peraški trg
Сценариото / The Script, 2023, North Macedonia, Short film 14’50’’
Directed, written, and produced by: Aleksandra Kardalevska
Сценариото / The Script, 2023, North Macedonia, Short film 14’50’’
Directed, written, and produced by: Aleksandra Kardalevska
Several world-famous novel characters get lost in the fantastic world of The Script filled with absurd situations and existential questions.
Producers: Aleksandar Krstevski, Aleksandra Kardalevska
Production: Light Production, Krug Film and Alka Films
Cast: Dragana Kostadinovska, Ognen Drangovski,
Atanas Atanasovski, Igor Angelov, Simeon Moni Damevski, Ana Stojanovska
21.00 PERAŠKI TRG – MAIN SELECTION
AWARDS AND CLOSING CEREMONY
Shame on Dry Land / Syndaboken,
Sweden, Malta, 2023, drama, 91’
Director: Axel Petersén
A worried former fraudster arrives in Malta only to encounter significant difficulty in a hedonistic Swedish expat society.
Cast: Joel Spira, Christopher Wagelin, Julia Sporre
With support:
Turistička organizacija Kotor
Grad Kotor
Filmski centar Crne Gore
Local organizations:
Mesna zajednica Perast
Katolička crkva Perast
Pravoslavna crkva Perast
Conte Restaurant and Hotel
Vila Perast – Desig Hotel
Centar za Kulturu Kotor
Turistička organizacija Cetinje
Dom kulture Berane
FIFFP is being organized in collaboration with:
Swedish Embassy in Belgrade
Royal Danish Embassy
Embassy of Finland in Belgrade
Royal Norwegian Embassy
Finnish Film Foundation
Norwegian, Danish, Swedish – Film Institutes
The Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces
Swedish Institute
M.A.M.M.A. production
Justin Theatre Production
Balkan Nordic Film Festival
Yugoslav Film Archive, Kinoteka Belgrade and Kinoteka Montenegro
Film Centres in Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, Bosina and Hercegovina, Macedonia and internationally
Forteca, Perast Associtaion
Media sponsors:
RTCG, Dan, Vijesti
Warm regards from Adriatic pearl Perast
Jelena Mila
Festival director
Program details www.fiffp.com.
CONTACTS organization: info@fiffp.com, +382 68031880
Dobrodošli!