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Srdjan Stojanovic

Srdjan Stojanovic

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Biography

Writer / Director Srđan Stojanović was born in Belgrade, Serbia on May 13, 1971. As a 14 year old teenager he started making Super 8 and 16 mm films at Sarajevo's amateur film club "Words of Youth" (Riječi mladih). He won numerous awards for three of the five films he made during that period (1985 -1990). He continued making films professionally in Belgrade when at the age of 21 he wrote and directed the critically acclaimed short 35 mm film "The Elevator "(Lift, 1993). For production company "Fix Focus" (Fiks fokus) he directed 4 short films and his first feature length theatrically released film "Progressive Paranoia" (Progresivna paranoja, 1999), a critically acclaimed psychological thriller. He continued making films at "Academic Film Center" (Akademski filmski centar), when he directed two further feature length films: the melodrama "Three of a Kind" (Triling, 2005) and action drama "Turnover" (Obrt, 2012). His next two projects were long form documentary films made for „Film and ton“ (Film i ton) production: "Rebel With A Cause: Nikola Stojanović (1942 – 2021)", a critically acclaimed and award wining overview of his father's life and career (premiered at Martovski festival in Belgrade in 2024) and "Petrović, Miroslav Bata: Movies Out of Spite!" (won 1st award "Zlatna buklija" at 21. International documentary film festival in Velika Plana, 2026) . He directed three music videos. He also wrote several hundred texts about movies for daily newspapers and magazines. Since 2014, he is a member of Association of Film Artists of Serbia (Udruženje filmskih umetnika Srbije, UFUS). Since 2021, he is also a member of Film Authors Association, UFUS - AFA Zaštita.

Known For

Scenes from the Life of BH Film
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The history of Bosnian cinematography over 75 years of existence.

Scenes from the Life of BH Film

2022
Rebel with a Cause: Nikola Stojanović (1942-2021)
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An emotional journey through the life and film works of Nikola Stojanović, a graduate architect who directed five feature films, significant amount of short films and also founded and edited the legendary film magazine Sineast. He collaborated with some of the most prominent actors of Tito's Yugoslavia (Petar Božović, Mira Furlan, Predrag Ejdus, Radmila Živković) and was the recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award of the Martovski festival. His son Srđan Stojanović directed this documentary with tender loving care, saluting the man he so admired.

Rebel with a Cause: Nikola Stojanović (1942-2021)

2024
A Waltz for Belle Epoque - The Happyend of a Destiny
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In 1990, writer / director Nikola Stojanović shot a very expensive feature film "Belle epoque or the Last Waltz in Sarajevo". The war broke in Bosnia and Herzegovina, so the post-production stopped. He finaly finished the editing in 2007, when the movie premiered after 17 years of waiting to be completed. This is the triumphant sequel to the 1996 documentary "Farewell Belle Epoque - Destiny of a Movie".

A Waltz for Belle Epoque - The Happyend of a Destiny

2007
Farewell Belle Epoque - Destiny of a Movie
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In the summer of 1990, writer / director Nikola Stojanović shot his new feature film Belle Epoque in Sarajevo. The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina breaks out, making it imposible to finish the editing of the film. The year is now 1996, and Nikola Stojanović remembers working on expensive project. He lives in Belgrade, the film's negative is in Zagreb and sound materials are in Sarajevo. Will he ever finish editing his film?

Farewell Belle Epoque - Destiny of a Movie

1996
The Visit
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He, wakes up. She, materializes in his living environment. They are attracted and make love. She, wakes up. He materializes in the living environment seen in the previous scene.They are attracted and make love. The wish fulfillment happens. Yin and Yang, the eternal accommodation.

The Visit

2008
Bed
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Original inversion concerning the matters of life and death.

Bed

1997
Progressive Paranoia
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A young clerk, Marko, on his way back home from work starts to notice that someone is following him. Is that persdon real or is it a part of his psychosis?

Progressive Paranoia

1999
Three of a Kind
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Contemporary urban melodrama about three young couples who experience emotional crises and turning points in their relationships due to the circumstances in which they find themselves. The earthquake connects three stories in the same city in a cathartic way.

Three of a Kind

2005
Petrović, Miroslav Bata: Movies Out of Spite!
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Miroslav “Bata” Petrović is one of the most prolific filmmakers of the former Yugoslavia and present-day Serbia. This is a journey through the life and extraordinary works of a master of film alternative and extreme film experimentation.

Petrović, Miroslav Bata: Movies Out of Spite!

2026
Elevator
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A young man enters a freight elevator to perform his daily, routine work. In the claustrophobic environment of the tin box, an unusual process suddenly begins to take place, culminating in a shocking finale that leaves one wondering where the elevator is going.

Elevator

1993
Turnover
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Monika and Nikola were sweethearts for some time. However, one night their exes show up again – Nikola’s ex-girlfriend Darija and Monika’s ex-boyfriend Kokan. In a stormy night their lives will be changed completely.

Turnover

2012
Rush
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This movie is about sheer coincidences. We follow a young man who is running. Then we introduce a girl also in a hurry. Are these two going to meet each other? Than we find out that there is a third person, another young man, waiting for someone. Who will meet with whom, and what surprises await us at the end? Furious editing rhythm builds up, until an audiovisual crescendo shows us what it's all about!

Rush

1989
The Experiment
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A completely incomprehensible film material flashes on the screen. We find out at the end that a filmmaker is watching a projection and he decides to use that material for his next experimental film. Hence - this movie!

The Experiment

1988
Auteur Film
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Audiovisual experiment within the framework of fast editing. The flow of associative shots creates an abstract story which discloses the filmmaker's self. The sublimation of the author's moments of many different life crises makes explosive statement by the films finale.

Auteur Film

1990
Oh, No!
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A teenager and his younger brother wave goodbye to their mother and grandmother and stay alone at home. A monster suddenly materialises out of nowhere in their apartment. Will they be able to find the means to stop the powerful opponent?

Oh, No!

1987
7:55 a.m.
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A teenager wakes up at the last moment, and has just five minutes to get himself into shape before running to school which is right across his street. Will he make it to classroom before it's too late?

7:55 a.m.

1986
Thirteen Years Later
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A short film sequel to one of the stories from the feature film Three of a Kind. Thirteen years after the events of that film, Marija lives in Paris and remembers the love of her life, Gile, after she left him in pursuit of a career...

Thirteen Years Later

2019