WALL OF DEATH, AND ALL THAT
2016, mid-length documentary, director: Mladen Kovačević, 61 min.
Production: Horopter - Serbia / Co-production: Restart - Croatia
The film is placed in the world of inexorable noise, dirty food and abundant alcohol. It is the world in which children play on the carousel while next to them amateur strippers entertain loud men against the background of turbo-folk music. Our protagonist is Brankica – a former star of a legendary family of circus performers and acrobats. They called her the Wall (of Death) Princess. Today, Brankica is a grandmother of six grandchildren and she is only 42. She finds herself stuck in that perverse world of Balkan country-fairs, repeating the same old life-threatening stunts on her motorcycle while riding on the sidewalks of an enormous barrel.
About author Screenings
Mladen Kovačević, director & producer
After years of studying fiction film directing in Belgrade, London, and Cape Town, Mladen Kovačević has wholeheartedly dedicated himself to documentaries. In just a few years, he made several commissioned and thematic documentaries, and his debut documentary feature, the unpretentious and highly acclaimed “Unplugged” (selected to Visions du Réel, Hot Docs, CPH:DOX, FIDMarseille, RAINDANCE, DOK Leipzig, won several awards including Best Film Award at BELDOCS - Best Serbian Documentary in 2013, etc). “The Wall of Death, and All That” is his latest finished project, with several more in different phases of production.
Awards:
BELDOCS 2016, Belgrade, Serbia - Grand Prix
BELDOCS 2016, Belgrade, Serbia - Best Camera (Pablo Ferro Živanović)
BELGRADE DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2017, Belgrade, Serbia - Best sound design and best music (Aleksandar Protić and Nemanja Mosurović)
Festivals:
VISIONS DU REEL 2016, Nyon, Switzerland - International mid-length competition (World premiere)
BELDOCS 2016, Belgrade, Serbia - competition (Serbian premiere)
CINEMA CITY 2016., Novi Sad, Serbia - national competition / opening film
SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL 2016, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina - competition
MAKEDOX 2016, Skopje, Macedonia - competition (Newcomers)
DOKUDOC 2016, Maribor, Slovenia - main program
PANČEVO FILM FESTIVAL 2016, Pančevo, Serbia - competition
DOKUMENT 2016., Vranje, Serbia - opening film
BALKAN NEW FILM FESTIVAL – BaNeFF 2016, Stockholm, Sweden - doc.short program
ZAGREBDOX 2017, Zagreb, Croatia - regional competition
BELGRADE FESTIVAL OF DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILM 2017, Belgrade, Serbia - competition
UNDERHILLFEST 2017., Podgorica, Montenegro - regional competition
