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Among the People: Life & Acting

Želimir Žilnik
Screening time  
28.02. / Thursday, 16:00 - 20:00 Theatre 3  
The newly commissioned film for the occasion of the author’s exhibition Shadow Citizens assemblage features memories and commentaries of non-professional actors combined with excerpts from films in which they participated as “protagonists,” mixed with footage made of crews working on the sets of Žilnik’s films.

It acts as a reminder for Žilnik of the talents and real-life experiences of his participants, which inspired him to articulate their narrative threads and define his fictional characters.At the same time, the film documents how the film participants experienced these new encounters and the solidarity of the “film collective.”

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Želimir Žilnik

Želimir Žilnik was born in 1942 in Niš, and he is living and working in Novi Sad, Serbia. He has written and directed numerous fiction and documentary films which have garnered many awards at national and international film festivals. He is one of the pioneers of the docu-drama genre. From the very beginning his films have focussed on contemporary issues, featuring social, political and economic assessments of everyday life: Newsreel on Village Youth, in Winter (1967), Little Pioneers (1968), The Unemployed (1968), June Turmoil (1969), Black Film (1971), Uprising in Jazak (1973). Žilnik’s fiction debut Early Works (1969) won the Golden Bear at Berlinale and four awards at Pula Film Festival. In 1995 his film Marble Ass won the prestigious Teddy Award at Berlinale. ZagrebDox has screened Žilnik’s films Logbook Serbistan (2015), Pirika on Film (2013) and Europe Next Door (2005), which won the Big Stamp. He was an International Jury member at ZagrebDox 2019. Žilnik’s latest films are The Most Beautiful Country in the World (2018) and Among the People: Life & Acting (2018).

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Serbia
2018, 83'

Directed by:
Želimir Žilnik

Screenplay by:
Želimir Žilnik

Cinematography:
Miodrag Milošević

Edited by:
Vuk Vukmirović

Music:
Filip Vlatković

Produced by:
Žilnik produkcija