In the documentary Language and Reality, representatives of the professional public, as well as language practitioners themselves, talk about the important role that language plays in forming opinions and attitudes in society.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic a state of emergency was declared in Serbia. As of March 18th 2020 all male and female citizens aged over 65 were banned from leaving their home. Were there manipulations with fear, guilt, that they really didn’t know in the end whether they were protected or mistreated?
In a time when we are overwhelmed by prejudices prompted by disruptive local politics, when the media also hinder the establishment of cooperation in the region, the importance of the project “Unfinished Symphony / Regional Children’s Philharmonic,” as an example of good cooperation and need for communication, is even greater.
A documentary film featuring female victims of domestic violence.
Aiming to promote a better communication with the world, the 42- minute documentary Connection / Koнекшн reviews the qualities and defects of the Serbian and American mentality. University students from Belgrade and the U.S. talk about their views on national identity , patriotism and nationalism, stereotypes, diversity, prejudice, ethnic minorities, the system of values, same sex marriages and adoption of children by homosexual couples, unemployment, politics, violence, similarities and differences.
In cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia, ShockART presented the Multi-Media Guide on the Code of Ethics to a wider audience through national and local TV stations in 2012. The impact of the Multimedia Guide and rise of public awareness was enhanced through organization of six round tables throughout Serbia for the representatives of local self-governments, CSOs and media and production and broadcasting of one-hour programmes on national and local TV networks.
Tracing the thoughts of three 17-year-old girls and their authentic environment, the film builds a story about adolescent drama of growing up in a society that promotes aggression, alienation, profanity, hopelessness, social autism,etc. CHILL OUT, the term adopted as the film title, embodies the prevailing attitude of the new generation brought up on a mixure of Grand Productions and MTV. The film itslef seeks the answer to the question: What are current generations like and what values are they reflection of?
The documentary based on “Working Together for Child Protection”,a project implemented by Save the Children UK and funded by the European Commission, aims to improve the child welfare systems and the protection of children’s rights in Serbia, Kosovo and Montenegro by supporting the development of a coordinated, cost-effective and sustainable child protection services and promotion of community-based child welfare approaches.
The overall objective of the project was to build capacity of MoLSP, Local Self Governments (LSG) and other central and local stakeholders in the social welfare system, in order to effectively implement the SWDS. The Donors and MoLSP were to send the following message through this film: GoS and MoLSP and their partners are actively implementing the SWDS and wider social welfare reform agenda, that the support provided by DFID and NMFA has contributed significantly to the progress that has been made, that the work completed to date forms a firm foundation on which to build and move forward in terms of social welfare reform in the broader EU integration context.
The film offers a personal story of Ivana – a single mother from Serbia that adopted a little boy from Tibet she now lives with in France. In the Vasiljević family, little Tenzin has an even tougher time since, along with the solving the complexity of his identity and confronting the problem who he is and who he belongs to, the issue of nurturing a different culture, tradition, philosophy of life surfaces. This film is a generically civilizational story which uses the comparative contemplation of cultural differences of three worlds – Serbian, French and Tibetan – to stress the advantage of adoption for the development of a child, as well as the need to respect the rights of children regardless of them living in families with their biological parents or not.
