
In SLET 1988, dancer Sonja Vukićević (73) moves through the utopian architecture of socialist modernism—her aging body is an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures echo past rhythms and present realities, intertwining with a 1988 teenage girl’s diary to reveal the shift from socialist collectivism to rising individualism while a new national collective body is creeping in and will soon shape the future of the country.
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Locarno Film Festival 2025
Stab
Writer / Director / Producer: Marta Popivoda
Writer / Dramaturgy: Ana Vujanović
Camera: Ivan Marković
Performer / Choreographer: Sonja Vukicević
Original Sound: Dejan Kragulj
Producer: Zsófi Lili Kovács
Co-Producer: Jasmina Sijerčić
Montage: Jelena Maksimović
Production Management: Jelena Angelovski
Production Management Assistant: Senka Radivojević
Cameraa ssistent: Staša Bukumirović
Editing und Sound Design: Vladimir Zivkovic
Sound Mixer: Simon Apostolou

Marta Popivoda is a filmmaker, artist, and researcher. The main concerns in her work are the tensions between memory, history, and ideology, as well as the relations between collective and individual bodies. Popivoda approaches them from a feminist and queer perspective. Her work has been presented worldwide in the cinema and visual arts contexts, such as Berlinale, IFFR, Visions du [...]
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