Rada Sesic, film director, pedagogue, and a member of the Jan Vrajman Foundation

VRAJMAN MEANS A FREE MAN

We see RADA SESIC regularly on our Festival. Last year, a programme of the films from India /Bolywood in Belgrade / was shown in Belgrade and this year Mrs. Sesic is here as a representative of the JAN VRIJMAN FOUNDATION:

- As this is a Festival of Documentary and Short Film and I personally, as an author, make this type of films, for me this is an interesting place, where I can see what is going on in the region. This year, in fact, I have come with a programe that I have composed myself and I am presenting it to you; that is the Programme JAN VRAJMAN Foundation from Holland . We support the creative documentary in the countries that are in the transition. We have also assisted some films in Serbian and Montenegro , and here five films are going to be shown, the funding of which we have already supported, and they are in the International Competition. There are also, two films that we have specially singled out, LA STRADA, from Croatia , by Damir Curcic and NO PROBLEM from Chile , that talks about our people who emigrated to Chile to meet the situation that they did not expect there.

About the creative documentary, financed by the Foundation, and the reasons for their recommendation, Rada Sesic says:

- That means that these films have not been done as „talking heads“ but it seen that the director is standing behind the theme; what I want to say is that what matters is not the director's name, but rather his author's approach. That is what is our gide line. We have supported Boris Mitic's film UNMIK TITANIK that in the author's way talks about the problems in Kosovo, STRAIGHT A's, by Dana Budisavljevic, from Croatia, so the films that talk about certain topics first of all in the film language. They don't have to be political films. Our authors, the authors from these parts usually think that the foreigners want to support just the political topics, social stories or the films that talk about the poverty of the country. That is not true, Dana Budisavljevic's film is about a prostitute who made porno films in her youth and her return to Croatia . So, that film isn't based on politics but is rather a social confession story that simply flows without a brake out this woman. In the last round, we assisted the film of the famous documentary filmmaker Vlada Perovic, a man with a well-established author's style, who has his handwriting and a very recognizable visual language.

How does this that she is talking about fits into that part of the last year's Festival dedicated to the Indian film?

- I am specialized in the Indian film, I teach the Indian film at the Faculty in Amsterdam . I am coming to Belgrade from Surinam in South America, where I had a lecture on it, as a big Hindu population lives there, but at the same time, in Holland, I am a member of the Jan Vrijman Foundation (from the very beginning, for already seven years), there I am just working on the projects coming from the Eastern Europe and the South Asia.

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