Catalogue > At random

Scenes of daily life on the banks of the Danube in Serbia; little or nothing seems to happen for these men stranded at the port along with the boats. Guided by a protagonist who is at the same time endearing yet a little naive and quirky, the discussions touch on economics, moths, the old songs from their youth, in fashion in the 1970s. A sensitive observational film about a society put on hold.

Stefan IVANČIĆ was born in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia, in 1985. From 1991 to 2009 he lived in Barcelona, Spain, where he got his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. After living for 18 years far away from his birthplace, he went back to what was left of Yugoslavia in 2009, and graduated in film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, in 2013. He has written film criticism for a number of Spanish and Serbian publications, he is a member of FIPRESCI and he was a founding member and editor-in-chief of the Spanish web-magazines Lumière (www.elumiere.net) and Contrapicado. He has collaborated in several collective books on cinema and has worked as a programmer and publications editor at Cinema City International Film Festival Novi Sad, Pančevo Film Festival and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival. His short films Soles de primavera (2013), 1973 (2014) and Moonless Summer (2014) have been selected at a great number of international film festivals, including Cannes, Rotterdam, FID Marseille, Torino, San Sebastian, Visions du Réel, IndieLisboa, Seville, Thessaloniki, L’Alternativa Barcelona and Premiers Plans Angers. Stefan is currently producing the feature film The Load by Ognjen Glavonić, a Hubert Bals Fund, CineMart and Connecting Cottbus-supported project.