Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami screened at the opening ceremony. The film is an unusual documentary by Sophie Fiennes about Grace Jones, a unique figure, whose impact on pop culture is immeasurable.
The festival will screen 18 films divided into three categories: international, regional and non-competitive. Vuk Perović is the film selector.
Three films are in the non-competitive selection: Ferrante Fever by Giacomo Durzi, Unwanted Girls of Montenegro by Iva Parađanin, and Nick Broomfield’s Whitney: Can I be Mine. Marina Gumzi, producer of the film Playing Men, as well as directors Iva Parađanin and Bojana Burnać, will be the guests at the 9th UnderhillFest.
The three-person jury made up of Miljenko Čogelj (Croatia), director Ivan Salatić (Montenegro) and Marko Grba Singh (Srbija) will decide on the Dandelion awards.
The international selection includes Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, Infinite Football (42 Km Film) by Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu, Wonderful Losers: A Different World by Arunas Matelis, Risk by Academy award winner Laura Poitras, I See Red People by Bojina Panayotova, Taste of Cement by Ziad Kalthouma and Mari Gulbiani’s Before Father Gets Back, which will have its premiere only one day earlier at the Sheffield Doc Fest.
Eight films screen in the regional selection:
The Other Side of Everything (Serbia, France, Qatar)
Directed by Mila Turajlić
Produced by Dribbling Pictures
Supported by by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, Film Center Serbia, CNC – Cinémas du monde, Doha Film Institute and HBO Europe
When Pigs Come / Kada dođu svinje
Directed by Biljana Tutorov
Produced by Wake Up Films
Supported by Film Center Serbia and the Croatian Audiovisual Center
In Praise of Nothing (Serbia, Croatia, France)
Directed by Boris Mitić
Produced by Dribbling Pictures, Anti-Aburd, La Bete
A Million Dollar Life (Croatia)
Directed by Robert Tomić Zuber
Produced by Nukleus Film
The Family / Družina (Slovenia, Austria)
Directed by Rok Biček
Produced by Cvinger film
Coproduced by RTV Slovenija, Zwinger film
Supported by the Slovenian Film Center, FS Viba, the Austrian Film Institute
My Life Without Air (Croatia)
Directed by Bojana Burnać
Produced by Restart
Playing Men (Slovenia, Croatia)
Directed by Matjaž Ivanišin
Produced by Restart, Nosorogi
With Love (Macedonia)
Directed by Ilija Cvetkovski
Produced by Trice Films
