Vojvođanski Građanski Centar VCC

19/06/2026

Harmless Film Festival // WAR ON SCREEN

HARMLESS TALKS // RAT NA PLATNU

Rat na platnu okuplja autore, autorke, filmske radnike i stručnjake iz regiona u razgovoru o tome kako je kinematografija poslednjih trideset godina oblikovala naš odnos prema ratu, sećanju i odgovornosti.

Tri decenije nakon završetka ratova na prostoru bivše Jugoslavije, panel otvara pitanja o tome kako su filmska ostvarenja, nastala od kraja rata do danas, uspevala da pomere granice ćutanja, otvore prostor za dijalog i suoče publiku sa temama koje su dugo ostajale na margini društvenog i političkog diskursa.

Kroz razgovor ćemo se baviti odgovornošću autora koji se bave traumama, zločinima, sećanjem i nasleđem konflikta u državama nastalim raspadom Jugoslavije, prostoru u kojem prošlost i dalje snažno oblikuje sadašnjost.

Da li nerešena pitanja iz prošlosti opterećuju film ili mu, upravo suprotno, daju dodatnu društvenu i umetničku snagu? Koliko film može da bude prostor otpora koji će iznedriti empatiju i istorijsko propitivanje?

Izmeštajući fokus iz regiona bivše Jugoslavije, panel će se baviti i pitanjem kako kroz film posmatramo savremene globalne konflikte i humanitarne tragedije. U poslednjim godinama, značajna filmska ostvarenja koja se bave ratom, okupacijom, migracijama i ljudskim pravima dosegla su snažan međunarodni odjek i otvorila važne društvene debate. Koliko je taj uspeh važan? Može li film imati stvarni istorijski i društveni uticaj?

U tom kontekstu, i filmovi The Voice of Hind Rajab i No Other Land, koji govore o stradanju i nasilju u Palestini, a koji će biti prikazani u programu HARMLESS Film Festivala, otvaraju pitanje može li kinematografija biti više od svedočanstva, odnosno može li postati čin otpora, dokument vremena i alat za kolektivno suočavanje.

HARMLESS TALKS // Rat na platnu je razgovor o filmu kao prostoru sećanja, odgovornosti i mogućnosti da, trideset godina nakon jednog rata, drugačije razumemo i sopstvenu prošlost i svet oko sebe.

Učestvuju:

Dragana Jovović / producentkinja / Non Aligned Films

Ognjen Glavonić / Reditelj i producent / Non Aligned Films

Ana Martinoli / producentkinja i redovna profesorka Fakulteta dramskih umetnosti u Beogradu

Lidija Zelović / Rediteljka / Zelovic Film

Razgovor moderira:

Nataša Govedarica / Pro Peace, Beograd

*Panel organizuje Harmless Film Festival u saradnji sa Vojvođanskim građanskim centrom i organizacijom Pro Peace - Serbia.

📍 HARMLESS Film Festival / Novosadsko pozorište
🗓️ June 27, 2026. / 18:00
🎟️ Besplatne ulaznice na https://buytickets.at/harmlessfilmfestival
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WAR ON SCREEN

War on Screen brings together filmmakers, film professionals, and experts from across the region to discuss how cinema has shaped our understanding of war, memory, and responsibility over the past three decades.

Thirty years after the end of the Yugoslav wars, the panel explores how films produced from the post-war period to the present have challenged silence, opened spaces for dialogue, and confronted audiences with subjects that long remained on the margins of public and political discourse.

The discussion will focus on the responsibility of filmmakers who engage with trauma, war crimes, memory, and the legacy of conflict in the states that emerged from the breakup of Yugoslavia — a region where the past continues to profoundly shape the present. Do unresolved questions from the past burden cinema, or do they, on the contrary, provide it with additional social and artistic relevance? To what extent can film serve as a space of resistance, fostering empathy and encouraging critical reflection on history?

Moving beyond the former Yugoslav region, the panel will also examine how cinema engages with contemporary global conflicts and humanitarian crises. In recent years, films addressing war, occupation, displacement, migration, and human rights have achieved significant international recognition while generating important public debates. How important is that visibility? Can film have a tangible historical and social impact?

In this context, The Voice of Hind Rajab and the Academy Award-winning documentary No Other Land, both featured in the HARMLESS Film Festival programme, raise an important question: can cinema be more than testimony? Can it become an act of resistance, a document of its time, and a tool for collective reckoning?

War on Screen is a conversation about film as a space of memory, responsibility, and the possibility that, thirty years after one war, we may better understand both our own past and the world around us.

Participating:

Dragana Jovović / producer / Non Aligned Films

Ognjen Glavonić / Film director and producer / Non Aligned Films

Ana Martinoli / producer and Professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade

Lidija Zelović / Film director

Ognjen Glavonić / Film director and producer

Panel Moderator

Nataša Govedarica / Pro Peace, Belgrade

*The panel is organized by HARMLESS Film Festival in cooperation with the Vojvodina Civic Centre and Pro Peace Belgrade.

11/06/2026

Ivan Ramljak i Mirotvorac dolaze na Harmless Film Festival!

🎬 FILM ZATVARANJA FESTIVALA // MIROTVORAC

Režija: Ivan Ramljak | Hrvatska | 2025. I 100’

Može li jedan čovek zaustaviti rat?

Leto je 1991. godine. Dok Jugoslavija klizi ka krvavom raspadu, načelnik osječke policije Josip Reihl-Kir pokušava ono što se tada činilo gotovo nemogućim - da pregovorima spreči rat. Nekoliko meseci kasnije biće ubijen.

Kroz arhivske snimke i svedočenja ljudi koji su bili tamo, Mirotvorac rekonstruiše događaje koji su prethodili njegovom ubistvu i postavlja pitanje koje ni više od tri decenije kasnije nije izgubilo na značaju: da li je rat mogao biti izbegnut?

Novo ostvarenje jednog od najznačajnijih hrvatskih dokumentarista, Ivana Ramljaka, osnivača Human Rights Film Festivala i autora filmova El Shatt i Once Upon a Youth. Film je osvojio Zlatnu golubicu za najbolji međunarodni dokumentarni film na festivalu DOK Leipzig, kao i niz najvažnijih nagrada u regionu.

Posebno nas raduje što će Ivan Ramljak biti gost prvog izdanja HARMLESS Film Festivala i što ćemo imati priliku da ovaj izuzetni film pogledamo zajedno sa njegovim autorom.

📍 HARMLESS Film Festival
📅 28. jun 2026. | 19:30
📌 Novosadsko pozorište, Novi Sad

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🎬 FESTIVAL CLOSING FILM // PEACEMAKER

Directed by Ivan Ramljak | Croatia | 2025

Can one man stop a war?

Summer, 1991. As Yugoslavia slides toward a bloody collapse, Osijek police chief Josip Reihl-Kir attempts what already seemed almost impossible at the time - to prevent war through dialogue and negotiation. A few months later, he would be assassinated.

Through archival footage and testimonies of those who were there, Peacemaker reconstructs the events leading up to his murder and asks a question that remains just as relevant more than three decades later: could the war have been avoided?

The latest film by one of Croatia’s most important documentary filmmakers, Ivan Ramljak, founder of the Human Rights Film Festival and director of El Shatt and Once Upon a Youth. The film won the Golden Dove for Best International Documentary at DOK Leipzig, along with a number of major awards the region.

We are especially happy that Ivan Ramljak will be joining us as a guest of the first HARMLESS Film Festival, giving us the opportunity to watch this remarkable film together with its director.

📍 HARMLESS Film Festival
📅 June 28, 2026 | 19:30
📌 Novi Sad Theatre, Novi Sad

10/06/2026

🎬 HOME GAME // SPECIJALNA PROJEKCIJA
Režija: Lidija Zelović | Holandija | 2024. | 98'

Šta je dom?

Više od tri decenije nakon što je sa porodicom iz ratom zahvaćenog Sarajeva stigla u Holandiju, Lidija Zelović kroz porodičnu video-arhivu preispituje pitanja identiteta, pripadanja i sećanja. Ono što počinje kao intimna priča o jednoj porodici prerasta u promišljanje o Evropi danas i svetu koji se menja pred našim očima.

Posmatrajući rastuću društvenu polarizaciju, nacionalizam i političke podele u Holandiji, Zelović u njima prepoznaje obrasce koji su joj odavno poznati iz nekadašnje Jugoslavije. Ono što je nekada izgledalo nezamislivo ponovo postaje moguće.

Film je svetsku premijeru imao u glavnom takmičarskom programu IDFA-e, najvećeg svetskog festivala dokumentarnog filma.

Posebno nas raduje što će Lidija Zelović biti gošća prvog izdanja HARMLESS Film Festivala i predstaviti svoj film novosadskoj publici.

📍 HARMLESS Film Festival
📅 Subota, 27. jun 2026. | 21:30
📌 Novosadsko pozorište, Novi Sad

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🎬 HOME GAME

Directed by Lidija Zelović | The Netherlands | 2024 | 98'

What is home?

For more than three decades, Lidija Zelović has been documenting the life of her family in the Netherlands after they fled war-torn Sarajevo in the early 1990s. Drawing from a remarkable family archive, Home Game becomes an intimate film essay about migration, identity, belonging, and a Europe changing before our eyes.

As she observes growing polarization, nationalism, and political divisions in Dutch society, Zelović begins to recognize unsettling echoes of the country she once left behind. What begins as a family story gradually transforms into a warning that concerns us all.

The film had its world premiere in the International Competition of IDFA, the world's leading documentary film festival.

We are especially happy to welcome Lidija Zelović to the first edition of the HARMLESS Film Festival, where she will personally present the film to the Novi Sad audience.

📍 HARMLESS Film Festival
📅 Saturday, June 27, 2026 | 21:30
📌 Novi Sad Theatre, Novi Sad

08/06/2026

Dobrodošli na Harmless Film Festival

🎬 FILM OTVARANJA HARMLESS FILM FESTIVALA
GLAS HIND RAŽAB (The Voice of Hind Rajab)
�Režija: Kaouther Ben Hania | Trajanje 90’ I Tunis, Francuska | 2025.

Januar 2024. U Gazi, šestogodišnja devojčica ostaje zarobljena u automobilu pod vatrom. Dok preklinje za pomoć, volonteri Crvenog polumeseca pokušavaju da je održe na vezi i organizuju spasavanje.

Zasnovan na istinitom događaju koji je potresao svet, film koristi autentične snimke razgovora sa Hind Ražab i pretvara ih u snažnu filmsku priču koja je postala jedan od najupečatljivijih simbola stradanja civila u Gazi.

Novo ostvarenje višestruko nagrađivane tuniske rediteljke Kaouther Ben Hanije, autorke filmova Četiri ćerke i Čovek koji je prodao svoju kožu, premijerno je prikazano na Venecijanskom filmskom festivalu, gde je osvojilo Srebrnog lava - Veliku nagradu žirija.

📍 HARMLESS Film Festival�
26. jun 2026. // 19:15�
📌 Novosadsko pozorište, Novi Sad

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🎬 OPENING FILM OF THE HARMLESS FILM FESTIVAL
THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB
�Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania | 90 min | Tunisia, France | 2025

January 2024. In Gaza, a six-year-old girl becomes trapped inside a car under fire. As she pleads for help, Palestinian Red Crescent volunteers struggle to keep her on the phone while desperately trying to organize a rescue.

Based on the real events that shocked the world, the film incorporates authentic recordings of Hind Rajab’s calls for help, transforming them into a powerful cinematic account of a tragedy that became one of the most haunting symbols of civilian suffering in Gaza.

The latest film by acclaimed Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, whose previous works include Four Daughters and The Man Who Sold His Skin, premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, where it received the Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize.

📍 HARMLESS Film Festival�
June 26, 2026 | 19:15�
📌 Novi Sad Theatre, Novi Sad

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05/06/2026

Svaki grad deluje bezazleno dok ne prestane da bude.

Vidimo se u Újvidéki Színház
26-28. jun 2026.

Koliko je bezopasna tvoja realnost?

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Every city looks harmless. Until it doesn’t.

See you at Újvidéki Színház
26-28 June 2026.

How harmless is your reality?

27/05/2026

Možete li zamisliti umetničko delo
više uznemirujuće
od Pikasove Gernike?

Možete li zamisliti
grad Gerniku
pre nego što je potpuno uništen
i sravnjen sa zemljom?
Bezbrižnu Gerniku.

Ulice pune svetla.
Prozori su još uvek čitave.
Ljude koji veruju
da će sutra izgledati
potpuno isto kao danas.

Koliko je bezazlena
vaša stvarnost?

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Can you imagine
a more disturbing artwork
than Picasso’s Guernica?

Can you imagine
the city of Guernica
before it was completely destroyed
and flattened to the ground?
Carefree Guernica.

Streets still full of light.
Windows still intact.
People still convinced
tomorrow would look
exactly like today.

How harmless
is your own reality?

HFF2026 Visual // Milorad Savanović

28/04/2026

Tribina „Film kao iskustvo suočavanja“ održaće se večeras (utorak, 28. april) u okviru filmskog ciklusa SVETLOST KROZ PUKOTINE – Ciklus filmova o suočavanju sa ratnom prošlošću 90-tih a nakon projekcije kratkometražnog igranog filma „Milena“ (Željko Stanetić, 2024).

U razgovoru sa rediteljima Srdanom Golubovićem i Željkom Stanetićem, kao i glumcem Borisom Isakovićem, zajednički ćemo promišljati — kroz razmenu iskustvenih i teorijskih uvida — moć filma u procesuiranju ličnih i kolektivnih trauma, kao i u (re)konstrukciji ličnog i javnog sećanja.

Otvaramo pitanja: Kako film oblikuje verzije stvarnosti i istine? Na koji način može funkcionisati kao dokument prošlosti, posebno u kontekstu ratnih zločina? Da li i kako pamtimo kroz film? I kada film postaje politički relevantno lično i kolektivno iskustvo?
Dobrodošli!
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Tribina „Film kao iskustvo suočavanja“ se realizuje u okviru projekta „Pravo na mir i pravedno društvo: Dužnost da znamo i da se sećamo“ uz podršku Evropske unije.