Chicken Elections (0+)
Serbia, 2005, colour, 48 min.
Director: Goran Radovanovic
Director: Goran Radovanovic
Chicken Elections is a film about the contemporary society in rural Balkans. In this story an old Serbian peasant woman is trying to learn how to operate a used mobile phone given to her by her grandson, a local traffic policeman. Finally, when she somehow learns how to use it, she dies. Thus, this story turns into a metaphor of dying province and the absurdity of the development in transition countries. Chicken Election is funny, sad and beautifully ironic story about solitude, depopulation, about death before death...
AWARDS
52nd International Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, 2005, Best National Film; 52nd International Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, 2005, FIPRESCI AWARD; 52nd International Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, 2005, Award of Belgrade critics and journalists; VERA International Documentary Film Festival, Aland, Finland, 2006, Audience Award; The City of Belgrade Award for outstanding film achievement, 2006; Organization Committee Award, IDFF “Flahertiana”, Perm, Russia, 2006; AVANCA 2006, Special Mention, Portugal, 2006; Taiwan International Documentary Festival, PTS Audience Choice Award, 2006.
Goran Radovanovic
Goran Radovanovic
born in Belgrade in 1957. Graduated art history from Belgrade's Faculty of Philosophy in 1982. Between 1977 and 1980 he sojourned in Munich on a scholarship awarded by the Goethe Institute. After his return to Belgrade, he worked as a film critic (for the magazines "Vidici" and "Filmograf" as well as for Radio Belgrade's Third Programme). Since 1984 he has worked as writer and director of both feature and documentary films. Since 1994 he focuses to the documentary film and cooperation with independent media. In 1996 he founded his independent production company "Nama Film" which gathers some of the most prominent Serbian freelance film artists. He is a member of the European Film Academy, Berlin and Film Artists Association of Serbia.
FILMOGRAPHY
«Voigtlaender, 1896», 1988; «The Terrace», 1991; «Columba urbica», 1994; «Second Circle», 1998; «My country – for internal use only», «Model House», 2000; «OTPOR: The Fight To Save Serbia», 2001; «CASTING – A South East Europe Transition Film», 2003; «Chicken Elections», 2005; «The Ambulance», «The Ambulance», 2009; («With Fidel whatever happens», 2011.
Serbia, 2005, colour, 48 min.
Director: Goran Radovanovic
Director: Goran Radovanovic
Chicken Elections is a film about the contemporary society in rural Balkans. In this story an old Serbian peasant woman is trying to learn how to operate a used mobile phone given to her by her grandson, a local traffic policeman. Finally, when she somehow learns how to use it, she dies. Thus, this story turns into a metaphor of dying province and the absurdity of the development in transition countries. Chicken Election is funny, sad and beautifully ironic story about solitude, depopulation, about death before death...
AWARDS
52nd International Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, 2005, Best National Film; 52nd International Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, 2005, FIPRESCI AWARD; 52nd International Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, 2005, Award of Belgrade critics and journalists; VERA International Documentary Film Festival, Aland, Finland, 2006, Audience Award; The City of Belgrade Award for outstanding film achievement, 2006; Organization Committee Award, IDFF “Flahertiana”, Perm, Russia, 2006; AVANCA 2006, Special Mention, Portugal, 2006; Taiwan International Documentary Festival, PTS Audience Choice Award, 2006.