World premiere of the short film "The Whisper I Hear", by a young Montenegrin director Aleksa Bujišić, will be held at this year's 18th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival "Beldocs", on May 25th at noon at the Yugoslav Cinematheque in Belgrade.
Although created as a student film, "The Whisper I Hear" was included in the selection of the "Breath" program.
"Slavka lives in a house under a hill. In the winter, her mother Miluša keeps her company, whom she takes care of. She prepares her food, clothes her, and helps her. She solves her insomnia problem with housework and small chores. She gives insomnia a chance to live. When she sits down, the silence bothers her. In the workshop, where her husband once worked, in addition to the empty space and dust-covered machines, there is coal and firewood. She goes down to get wood and coal, sometimes she starts the machine. More so that she can hear it. She breaks the wood into small pieces on it. When night comes, she goes to bed, but quickly welcomes another morning of a day that, it seems, never passes," the synopsis of the short film states.
Bujišić is the director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor, and he is the producer together with Milan Radulović, while they did the sound. Andrej Pajkovic i Ana Grujic.
The young and talented director was born in Pljevlja, grew up in Podgorica, graduated from the Faculty of Design and Multimedia, University of Donja Gorica, majoring in “Film and Media”. Through the Erasmus+ program, he studied in Athens, at the University of West Attica, Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts. He is an alumnus of the Reykjavik Talent Lab program, as well as the Jugendfilmtage film camp. Since 2023, he has been studying for a master's degree in Film and TV Directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje, and is currently completing the last semester of his master's degree at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. So far, he has made several short films that have been screened at regional and international festivals.
This year's Beldocs will be held from May 21st to 27th, and will feature more than 15 different selections. Bujišić is the only Montenegrin author who will present his film.
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