Landscapes of Resistance

Pejzaži Otpora

23rd TDF: Greek Premiere

A journey through the memories of antifascist fighter Sonja (97), one of the first female partisans in Yugoslavia, who was also one of the leaders of the Resistance movement at Auschwitz. Time-traveling towards the bodies of the new generation of antifascists and suggesting that it is always possible to think and practice against the grain, this film discovers new aesthetic and existential tropes to understand resistance as a state of being.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Direction: Marta Popivoda
Script: Marta Popivoda, Ana Vujanović
Cinematography: Ivan Marković
Editing: Jelena Maksimović
Sound: Jakov Munižaba (sound), Simon Apostolou (mix)
Production: Theory at Work, Bocalupo Films
Producers: Marta Popivoda, Dragana Jovović, Jasmina Sijerčić
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Serbia, France, Germany
Production Year: 2021
Duration: 95΄
Contact: BOCALUPO FILMS, Jasmina Sijercic
Awards/Distinctions: Libraries Award – Cinéma du Réel 2021 Best Picture – Jeunju IFF 2021

Marta Popivoda

Marta Popivoda is a Berlin-based filmmaker, video artist, and researcher. She studied philosophy and film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, and has a postmaster degree in experimental film from the Universität der Künste Berlin. Popivoda’s first feature-length documentary, Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body, premiered at the 63rd Berlinale, and her work has also been screened at Tate Modern London, MoMA New York, M HKA Antwerp, Museum of Modern Art + MSUM Ljubljana, among others. Popivoda has received the prestigious Berlin Art Prize for the visual arts by Akademie der Künste Berlin, and the Edith-Russ-Haus Award for Emerging Media Artists. She also works as a curator of experimental film and video art.

Filmography

2011 The Guard (short)
2017 Caressing Machine (short)
2013 Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body (doc)
2021 Landscapes of Resistance (doc)