Ognjen Glavonic was born in 1985 in Pančevo, Serbia, in Yugoslavia. He is the director and co-founder of the Pančevo Film Festival. His first mid-length documentary, Živan Makes a Punk Festival (2014) premiered at Cinéma du Réel. His documentary Depth Two, premiered at the Berlinale Forum in 2016 and it notably won the award for best film at DokuFest Prizren, among other festivals. He then completed his first feature-length fiction film, The Load, that takes place during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) in 1999 and premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival in 2018. He is currently working on a new fiction feature entitled In the Shadow of the Horns.
A combination of spoken testimonies and images of the places where war crimes occurred 17 years before the film was shot, this experimental documentary is a thriller about a mass grave located in the suburbs of Belgrade, Serbia. In an attempt to uncover, shed a light upon, and give voice to these stories, intentionally buried in silence, the film speaks directly to the sensations, imagination, ...
A combination of spoken testimonies and images of the places where war crimes occurred 17 years before the film was shot, this experimental documentary is a thriller about a mass grave located in the suburbs of Belgrade, Serbia. In an attempt to uncover, shed a light upon, and give voice to these stories, intentionally buried in silence, the film speaks directly to the sensations, imagination, ...