Museum of the Revolution (Muzej revolucije)

Cinematographer: Srdjan Keča 
Editing: Hrvoslava Brkušić, Srdjan Keča 
Music: Hrvoje Nikšić 
Production: Restart, Uzrok, Nutprodukce 

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film crew. 

Museum of the Revolution was a plan launched in the early sixties by the Yugoslav authorities to build a grand museum in Belgrade. Vjenčeslav Richter, Yugoslavia’s most avant-garde and acclaimed architect, was commissioned to design this prestigious project with the aim of "safeguarding the truth about the national liberation struggle". Richter designed an imposing building, but the party enthusiasm apparently soon dwindled as the plan never got beyond the construction of the basement level. Now, more than 60 years later, offering refuge to social outcasts, this derelict building tells a very different story from the one envisioned at the onset. Among the structure’s community of unhoused people, Srdjan Keča singles out a Roma woman and her son, struggling to get by while maintaining dignity. A sense of dignity is partly created through the friendship they establish with an equally impoverished and marginalised old woman. Keča's Museum of the Revolution mainly tells the story of downfall, both the collapse of the country formerly known as Yugoslavia and its ideology and, more importantly, the collapse of a society incapable of providing for its weakest and most vulnerable members.