Introduction to City of Women Film Program

City of Women, Film Program Intro:

While this year's film program at City of Women still follows the
general outlines, ideas, and proposals contained in the overall concept
of the Global South, it does so, yet narrowly, in the amorphousness of
various possible ways. Instead of a comprehensive cinematic survey of
the idea of the South as defined by the concept, we offer imagery from
(and of) the South only as a background, perhaps even as a reason to
present certain unique directorial visions that would otherwise remain
neglected in the local cultural context surrounding City of Women. The
South – a stereotyped periphery transformed into the center – will thus
provide a springboard for an unruly, picturesque, pulsating plethora
of ideas, thematic preoccupations, and formal approaches that can only
leave us guessing to what extent the notion of the South has affected
their existence. From old masters still at work (and some at the
beginning of their careers) to the youngest voices in the international
film community; from established names to recent discoveries; from
present to past and back again; from impassioned political cries to
more subdued, but nevertheless relevant intimate confessions. All
together serving, above all, as an experiment in order to discover a
common denominator. Vanja Kaluđjerčić