KINO KLUB
A FOCUS ON EXPERIMENTAL FILMS
Screening: MEETING AT THE KINO KLUB > 07.06 | 7PM | Cinema Passos Manuel
Kino Klubs were a hub of cinephilia and cinematic experimentation in the former Socialist Yugoslavia. They served as creative gathering places that welcomed the visions and voices that would go on to shape and define a generation of filmmakers in the realm of experimental cinema, outside the conventions of the time. In 2026, we extend an invitation for an informal gathering to pay tribute to one of the homes of experimental cinema.
In Belgrade, in 1958, the Akademik Kino Klub was founded, later known (and still known today) as the Academic Film Center. Many renowned filmmakers from the region took their first steps in cinema in this place – which remains active to this day. The AFC’s main activities include film workshops, lectures, and film production (experimental and documentary). In 1982, they founded the Alternative Film Archive to preserve the works produced by the AFC, which includes over 600 films.
BEAST has curated a program focusing on female filmmakers whose works were created within this context. Creating a path that invites us, from the very first moment, to take steps from the outside to the inside, from the present to the past. With a collection of short films that open the doors to a medium-length film: Home Movies, by Vukica Dilas. A posthumously edited work that compiles 20 years of moments from Vukica Dilas’s life: from the private and intimate to the public, with a montage of frames that reveal elements about her, about her life, but also about the artistic and social context that she was a part of. Filmed in Super 8, with elements inspired by the style of Jonas Mekas’s home movies, this is not only a portrait of a woman but also of a generation. A film we invite you to experience as if accepting Dilas’s invitation: to be with her, in her home.
FILMS
dogs, moon river and baudelaire | Marija Kovačina | Serbia | 2018 | EXP.
Surfacing Images | Tara Najd Ahmadi | Serbia, Iran | 2023 | EXP.
Memory Holes | Nevena Micić | Serbia | 2024 | EXP.
The Journey | Bojana Vujanović | Yugoslavia | 1972 | EXP.
Home Movies | Vukica Đilas | Serbia | 2006| EXP.
