MY BELGRADE (Moj Beograd)
Serbia, 2007, film essay; 10 min
In Croatian and Serbian, with English subtitles

Written and Directed by: Masa Drndic
Production company: Atelier Varan, Belgrade


After an absence of sixteen years Maša returns to Belgrade, the city of her childhood. She had left at the age of 9 with her mother, due to constant intimidation. More than a decade has gone by since she left, and the wars of the 1990’s have separated people. The comeback evokes repressed feelings and memories of some key events that have changed her and her mother's life...


Director Maša Drndic
Born in 1982 she graduated from the Middle School of Applied Arts in Rijeka, Croatia in 2002 and from the Academy of Applied Arts, Department of Graphics in 2008. She works as a graphic designer on posters, book covers and illustrations for publishing houses. Maša started working on documentaries when she joined cinema club 'Filmaktiv'. In 2007 she completed the workshop for documentary filmmaking organized by the French Atelier Varan affiliate in Belgrade, where she completed her first documentary film “My Belgrade” about her own life trauma.


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Masa Drndic
Rijeka, Croatia