On the Adamant
Adamant is a unique day care centre floating on the Seine river, in the heart of Paris. The crew leading it rejects the…
Subversive Film Festival
The Beach of Enchaquirados
Vicky is a fisherman by day, and barwoman by night. Her bar is located on a windy beach of Enchaquirados, in the coastal…
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Black Film* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
No man should come before an audience like the one by whose presence I am now honored, without a noble object and a…
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
In his one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid, director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York’s Central Park, leaving them to try…
Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song
A landmark of Black and American independent cinema that would send shock waves through the culture, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song was Melvin Van…
Sambizanga
This revolutionary bombshell by Sarah Maldoror chronicles the awakening of Angola’s independence movement. * One of the first feature films ever directed by…
Touki Bouki
With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a fractured portrait of the disenchantment of post-independence Senegal…
West Indies
West Indies is a visually and aurally stunning musical appropriately set on a giant slave ship symbolizing the relationship between Africa, Europe and…
Tongues Untied
Tongues United gives voice to communities of Black gay men, presenting their cultures and perspectives on the world as they confront racism, homophobia,…
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
An homage to the inspirational African-American civil rights leader, Seven Songs for Malcolm X collects testimonies, eyewitness accounts and dramatic reenactments to tell…
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Interviews, reconstructions and archive footage tell the story of the life and work of the highly influential anti-colonialist writer Frantz Fanon, author of…
Drylongso
A lost treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder…
still/here
still/here kroji refleksiju o ogromnom krajoliku prošaranom ruševinama i praznim parcelama koji čine sjeverni dio St. Louisa, područje na kojem je nastanjena gotovo…
Tonsler Park
Tonsler Park records a polling station in Charlottesville, Virginia during Election Day in the United States on November 8th, 2016. * A masterpiece…
The Inheritance
Ephraim Asili’s feature-length debut is a remarkable ensemble work that takes place almost entirely inside a West Philadelphia house. The film follows a…
Masterclass: Limitation and Chance as Film Strategies
On Thursday 18th May at 17:00 at Dokukino KIC, in co-organization of Restart and Subversive Festival, there will be a masterclass by award-winning…
Hommage: John Smith – Programme 2
Dad’s Stick 2012, 5 mins. Dad’s Stick features three well-used objects that were shown to the filmmaker by his father shortly before he…
Hommage: John Smith – Programme 1
Om 1986, 4 mins. “This four minute film explores our response to stereotypes – aural, visual and ideological. We are taken on…
The Micropolitics of a Cinematic Essay: HERE AND ELSEWHERE by Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville
Peter Grabher, a member of this year’s jury of the 16th Subversive Film Festival and historian, film scholar and professor based in Vienna,…
Nika Autor in cooperation with Newsreel Front presents Red Forests
16 May – 25 June 2023 MSU Black Box (1st floor of the Museum of Contemporary Art) Curators: Dina Pokrajac and Leila Topić The razor wire is one…
