A sad se spušta veče
Then comes the evening
Maja Novaković / Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia / 2019 / 28 min / Colour
Italian premiere
Isolated in the hills of eastern Bosnia, two old women survive in complete solitude. The care they have for each other is not made of words, but of daily gestures and eloquent silences. In fact, their silent dialogue welcomes the voices of Nature, which the women listen to and respect religiously. The camera becomes a vehicle for transmitting an intangible cultural heritage, made up of songs and lullabies, of rituals to tame adverse weather, the hail and storms that threaten the poor harvest. A natural symbiosis so intimate as to be congenital, that takes on the twisted form of a face marked by thousands of wrinkles, of feet that beat and stamp with the rhythm of the passage of time, like ancient tools or utensils. The pictorial gaze of the director captures for posterity the dazzling images of light or cluttered with darkness of a memory that, like the day, moves imperturbably towards evening.
Maja Novaković
Maja Novaković, director and producer, was born in 1987 in Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She completed her studies in Art History at the University of Belgrade, specialising in the figure of Sergei Parajanov. She works for the Centre for Museology and Heritology of the same university and as assistant researcher at the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Credits
Subject Maja NovakovićScreenplay Maja NovakovićCinematography Jasna ProlićSound Luka BarajevićEditing Marija KovačinaMain cast Vinka Radić, Obrenija RadićProduction company Academic Film Centre
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