29th BELGRADE AUTEUR FILM FESTIVAL / 01.12.2023.

01.12.2023., 14:00

The Cultural Centre of Belgrade

29th BELGRADE AUTEUR FILM FESTIVAL
25. November – 01. December 2022.
The Cultural Centre of Belgrade

14:00
KIDNAPPED / Rapito
Italy, France, Germany, 2023, 134’

Director: Marco Bellocchio

Cast: Paolo Pierobon, Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Enea Sala, Leonardo Maltese, Filippo Timi, Fabrizio Gifuni…

In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, papal soldiers raided the home of the Mortara family. On the orders of the cardinal, they take away a seven-year-old boy who was secretly baptized. The Mortara family is ready to do anything to get their son back. Supported by public opinion and the international Jewish community, their struggle soon acquired a political character. In an effort to consolidate the increasingly weak power, the church and the pope do not agree to return the child.

17:00
DISCO PLAYER
France, Italy, Belgium, Poland, 2023, 91’

Director: Giacomo Abruzzese

Cast: Franz Rogowski, Morr Ndiaye, Laëtitia Ky, Leon Lucev, Matteo Olivetti, Robert Wieckiewicz, Michał Balicki…

After a harrowing journey through Europe, Alexei arrives in Paris to join the Foreign Legion. In the Niger Delta, Jomo fights against the oil companies that threaten the village and the life of his family. One day, an armed group led by Joma kidnaps French citizens, and a commando of the Foreign Legion under Alexei’s leadership intervenes. Alexey’s and Jom’s destinies merge, their paths cross through borders, body, life and death.

19:00
EL SHATT – BLUEPRINT FOR UTOPIA
Croatia, Serbia, 2023, 96’

Director: Ivan Ramljak

Hundreds of frozen and starving people are floating on ships in the middle of the Mediterranean, fleeing the war. Scenes we’ve been seeing on the news lately – but the year is 1944 and refugees are fleeing Europe to Africa. After the capitulation of Italy, and before the arrival of the German army, Tito, with the help of the Allies, decided to evacuate 28,000 inhabitants of Dalmatia to Egypt, where they lived for two years under tents in the middle of the desert, in a kind of communist model-settlement that was supposed to show the West what the new Yugoslavia when the war ends. This is a story about them.