Movies: Emir Kusturica

An acknowledged and proven factory worker gets fired after workers' strike....

A profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director....

Emir Kusturica views himself as a rock musician and believes that he became a world-famous filmmaker by pure chance, as he shoots his movies only in between concert tours with the “No Smoking Orchestra” band. At these little pinpoints of time he gets...

It is a live record of a show of this band in one of their first presentations in Argentina. All done with the ease and artistic self-confidence that the Serbian film director has. With that gypsy music of the Balkans plus some rock, they capture her...

Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner, this film is set in Sarajevo during WW2. Mento is a humble, poor Jew who runs a caffe. Stjepan is a man of unknown background, with no social or psychological dimension, who jo...

A documentary about the band "No Smoking Orchestra"....

An Iranian filmmaker, a female taxi driver and a class a about cinema....

Three childhood friends from Belgrade, Serbia, whose destinies change as they become adults during the wartime 1990s....

In 1945 the forgotten Serbian World War II Hero Walter got killed while defending the occupied city of Sarajevo. In 1972 the actor Velimir Bata Zivojinovic changed the history of China portraying Walter in a Yugoslav partisan movie. More than a billi...

Under the warm rays of the sun, the protagonists become living still lifes, resting on benches, chairs, and deckchairs. In the quiet embrace of nature, they wait, reflect, and remember. This cinematic group portrait delves into the legacy and creativ...

This documentary is featured on the Warner Bros. Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Circus," released in 2004....