🎬 Goran Radovanović retrospective: With Fidel Whatever Happens / Con Fidel, pase lo que pase (2012)
Acclaimed director Goran Radovanović (1957, Serbia) studied art history at Belgrade’s Faculty of Philosophy. He started working in films in the late 1980s and has made several documentaries about Serbia. His feature film Enclave (2015) was Serbia’s candidate for the Academy Award for a foreign language film. Radovanović is a member of the European Film Academy and the Association of Film Artists of Serbia and is still creating films to this day. This retrospective will uncover his films, give the audience a unique opportunity to watch Balkan cinema in the big and cosy Cavia screen, and dive deep into Serbian reality.
With Fidel Whatever Happens
Goran Radovanovic | 2012 | Serbia | 47’ | Spanish, EN subtitles
Sierra Maestra, Cuba, 850 km east of Havana. The day before the celebration of the 52nd anniversary of the Revolution. An old man is repairing a few decades old motorcycle. A young dentist is trying to find some transport to a clinic in remote mountains. A middle-aged married couple run a public telephone booth in their modest house for villagers who have no phone. Fates of these people and many other inhabitants of Sierra Maestra are depicted on a day of ideological ecstasy, the day of the celebration of the 52nd anniversary of the Revolution. And the following day? The next day, driven by inertia, they all return to the rhythm of everyday life which is the same and is not very promising. But the revolution continues... For how long?
