'Umetnost sećanja' (MILESTONES) - a film by Jelena Radenović

"Milestones" is a documentary film about memorial monuments built in former Yugoslavia after World War II. It was the time when art and culture were key vehicles for the construction of the new social identity and an educational tool for the community. Decades after the dismay of the last socialist traces in the territory of former Yugoslavia, amazing memorial monuments persist to prove that art can survive ideologies and political systems, always finding new paths to the audience.

The monuments were rediscovered and brought to the public eye by Belgium photographer Jan Kemepnaers and English photographer Andy Day. The recognition didn't end there - the exhibition of the monuments took place in MOMA Museum in New York in 2018.

What is the connection between art and identity? Are those unique boulders - monuments from the past or forms from the future? How do you revisit cultural heritage and address its legacy? Can art survive the death of ideologies?

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UMETNOST SEĆANJA (MILESTONES)

Year of production: 2019

Run time: 62 minutes

Languages: Serbian, English

Subtitle: English

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FESTIVALS AND AWARDS:

Free Zone Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, November 2019, World Premiere (Special Mention of the Jury)

Balkan New Film Festival BaNeFF, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019 (Best Film of the Festival)

UnderhillFest, Podgorica, Montenegro, 2020 (Audience Award)

South-East European Film Festival SEEfest, Los Angeles, United States, 2020

Balkan Panorama Film Festival BPFF, Izmir, Turkey, 2020

Kosovo and Metohija International Film Festival, Gračanica, Kosovo, 2020

First Frame International Film Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2020 (Special Mention of the Jury)

ProToPost - Communism International Film Festival, Milan, Italy, 2020 (Best Topic Award)

EURO-IN Film festival of European and independent film, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2020

Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival - Martovski festival, Belgrade, Serbia, 2020-2021