HFF2026 // HARMLESS TALKS // WAR ON SCREEN

HARMLESS TALKS // RAT NA FILMSKOM PLATNU

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

Rat na filmskom 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 filmskom 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.

*Panel organizuje Harmless Film Festival u saradnji sa Vojvođanskim građanskim centrom i organizacijom Pro Peace iz Beograda

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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

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.

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