4 Years in 10 Minutes

On the cassettes that have been collecting dust for 18 years, a misterious film material is revealed. Woven with puzzling excerpts from the protagonist’s diary, it is slowly revealed that the vintage footage of alien landscapes, enigmatic characters and perilous circumstances, is shot by the first Serbian to climb Mount Everest. Reaching the very limits of human capabilities and entering a state of aimlessness and deep loss, the man eventually brings back haunted memories that range from the absurd to the mystic. His dream of adventure didn’t culminate in a victorious roar, reveals a quote from his journal, but ended in a scream of the defeated. In a journey to eternal glory, and back to the banality of everyday life, he changed in ways he never intended.

Awards

Visions du Réel International Film Festival – Special Mention, 2018

Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival – Best film in the Serbian Competition Programme, 2018

Mladen Kovačević graduated of fiction film directing in Belgrade, London, and Cape Town. In past several years Mladen Kovačević has wholeheartedly dedicated himself to documentaries. His films have been selected to hundreds of festivals including Visions du Réel, Hot Docs, DOK Leipzig, CPH:DOX, FIDMarseille, and so on, where he won numerous awards.

Selected Filmography

Wall of Death, and All That, 2016

Unplugged, 2013

 

 

Film sessions

09.23 Sunday
  • Senamiesčio „Pasaka“ (Vilnius) 17:30

09.28 Friday
  • Skalvija (Vilnius) 21:00 Presentation

09.29 Saturday
  • Skalvija (Vilnius) 13:10 Presentation

10.03 Wednesday
  • Romuva (Kaunas) 20:00

10.05 Friday
  • 17:00


Information

Director: Mladen Kovačević
Screenplay: Mladen Kovačević
Cinematography: Dragan Jaćimović
Editing: Jelena Maksimović
Sound: Jakov Munižaba
Producer: Iva Plemić
Production: Horopter Film Production
Serbia, 2018, 63 min.