Bioskop Zvezda Belgrade

Occupied cinema

Maša from Belgrade

About me I am a writer dedicated to various forms of text, as a poet, an essayist, a researcher and an editor. I studied film and this is the field I mainly work in - as the Co-Programmer of the Brave Balkans (Belgrade Auteur Film Festival), as the Program Director of Filmkultura (Association for Education in Audiovisual Culture) and as a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (Film a...
""Bioskop Zvezda" in Belgrade is an impressive, historical, occupied, or should we say liberated cinema that's run by a small group of enthusiastic people."

To start with, a short background story: the bankrupt Beograd Film company, at the time owning 14 cinemas in total, was sold in 2007 under doubtful conditions, while most of its cinemas ended up closing. "Zvezda" was among them, until in November 2014 a group of young filmmakers occupied (or rather: liberated) one of the oldest and most beautiful buildings in the city center. From then on, this space has been open, mostly showing films and at times bringing people together on various events.

In 2018, the movie "Occupied Cinema" (dir. Senka Domanović) premiered in Belgrade and brought the story about breaking into private property back to life: nevertheless, the enthusiasm about Zvezda is not as strong as it used to be, and a small group of people is now enthusiastically running the place. The quality of screenings is not impressive, but the choice of films can be interesting (although usually there are no English subtitles). 

During winter, the cinema's empty corridors and its dilapidated interior remind you of how recklessly this palace had been left to rot, while it can get pretty cold and humid in the screening room. During summer, the screenings are held on the rooftop between buildings, which can be a great experience. On Novi Bioskop Zvezda's (meaning New Zvezda Cinema) Facebook page you can check the program for the forthcoming week. Once you get there, chances are you will meet someone who will eagerly tell you all he knows about the place and take you on a short tour.

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About me I am a writer dedicated to various forms of text, as a poet, an essayist, a researcher and an editor. I studied film and this is the field I mainly work in - as the Co-Programmer of the Brave Balkans (Belgrade Auteur Film Festival), as the Program Director of Filmkultura (Association for Education in Audiovisual Culture) and as a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (Film and New Media Theory, Memory Studies). I've worked as part of various media outlets and publications, both as an author and an editor-in-chief, while throughout the years I have contributed to local an...

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