23.LFF
Opatija
26.-30.08.2025.

Film

Occupied Cinema

(Croatian premiere)
LFF16, In competition

ABOUT THE MOVIE

Ocupied cinema is a film about guerrilla action initiated by young activists taking over privatized cinema Zvezda in Belgrade, Serbia. This activity united various social groups that shared the same ambition - to change the reality in which they live. However, their views about how that reality should look like were not the same.

Senka Domanović

Senka Domanović was born in Belgrade in 1982. After finishing High School she enters the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade to study journalism. Simultaneously completes a three-year film school at the Center for visual communication - SQUARE. In 2005 enters the film and television directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, from where she graduates in 2011 in the class of Slobodan Šijan with the feature-length omnibus film OCTOBER. In the period 2005-2009 colaborates as a video artist with different civic associations on different projects in Serbia and abroad. From 2014-2015 works as a program coordinator of the Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival. In the period 2009-2018.she has been works as a director, screenwriter and cinematographer on projects for a variety of media production houses as Emotion, Constantine, MBK, Vice Serbia, RTS.

Title: Occupied Cinema
Year of production: 2018
Duration: 87
Screenplay: Senka Domanović
Photography: Siniša Dugonjić
Sound design: Ivan Zelić
Production company: This and That Productions, Nukleus Film