Avala Film at 80: Dušan Makavejev's Man is Not a Bird + Q&A
TBC 100 mins
TBC 100 mins
The oldest, largest and most prolific film studio in Yugoslavia - comparable to Pathé, Ealing, MGM and Mosfilm - Belgrade's Avala Film heralded in a golden age of cinema and is the tour de force behind iconic films spanning the epic and the avant-garde.
Man is Not a Bird follows Jan, an engineer, who falls for Rajka, a hairdresser, whose love is complicated by the arrival of a third party and myriad of characters in an industrialised mining town.
"The impact of this debut feature in Serbian cinema is so striking that even today it appears to be a revolutionary work" writes film historian Sergio Grmek Germani about Makavejev's film, a bold free-form vision scored to Beethoven's 9th, that shows not only a major director emerge but also invites rediscovery of the major studio behind the Yugoslav Black Wave.
The screening is presented by Mina Radovic, Serbian Film Festival UK and will be followed by a Q&A.
Special Thank You to Delta Video with Courtesy of Avala Film Way, Belgrade.