KineDok: Museum of the Revolution

Muzej revolucije, directed by Srđan Keča (RS/HR/CZ), 2021, 90 min., Serbian and Romany spoken + Slovak subtitles

“The wind got up in the night and took our plans away,” reads the proverb in the opening titles of Museum of the Revolution. The words are a reference to the 1961 plan to build a grand museum in Belgrade as a tribute to Socialist Yugoslavia. Meant to “safeguard the truth” about the Yugoslav people, the plan never got beyond the construction of the basement.

The derelict building now tells a very different story from the one envisioned by the initiators 60 years ago. In the damp, pitch-dark space live the outcasts of a society reshaped by capitalism. The film focuses on a girl who earns cash on the street by cleaning car windows with her mother. The girl has a close friendship with an old woman who also lives in the basement. Against the background of a transforming city, the three women find refuge in each other.

Supported using public funding by Bratislava City Foundation. The digitalization of Kino inak was financially supported by the Audiovisual Fund.