SLET 1988

film type documentary film, experimental film Production Country France, Germany, Serbia production year 2025 runtime 22'15 colour Color
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format 5.1 Audiomix original-language Serbian subtitles English

In SLET 1988, the dancer Sonja Vukićević (74) moves through socialist-modernist spaces, her body an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures echo past rhythms and present realities, intertwining with a 1988 teenage girl's diary to reveal the shift from socialist collectivism to rising individualism while a new national collective body is creeping in and will soon shape the future of the country.

director Marta Popivoda Script Marta Popivoda, Ana Vujanović Production Marta Popivoda, Zsófi Lili Kovács, Jasmina Sijerčić Editing Jelena Maksimović Cast Sonja Vukićević DOP Ivan Marković
Festivals
2025 Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
2025 Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2025 New York Film Festival, New York City, USA
2025 ZINEBI - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain
2025 Reykjavík International Film Festival, Iceland
2025 Valdivia International Film Festival, Chile
2025 Viennale International Film Festival, Wien, Austria
2025 International Cinematographers Film Festival Manaki Brothers, Bitola, Republic of North Macedonia
2025 Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Romania
2025 Duisburger Filmwoche, Germany
2025 Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Germany
2025 IDFA International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands
2025 Belgrade Auteur Film Festival (Festival Autorskog Filma), Serbia (Special Mention)
2025 Cairo International Film Festival, Kairo, Egypt
2025 Porto/Post/Doc, Portugal
2026 Open City Docs Fest, London, United Kingdom
2026 FILMFEST DRESDEN - International Short Film Festival, Dresden, Germany
2026 GoEast Filmfestival, Wiesbaden, Germany
2026 IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Lissabon, Portugal
2026 ZagrebDox - International Documentary Film Festival, Croatia
2026 COURTisane Festival for short film, video & new media, Gent, Belgium
Production
Sales
  • interfilm Berlin Management GmbH
  • Lola Lambert
  • Straßburger Str. 55
  • 10405 Berlin
  • Germany
  • https://www.interfilm.de/en/sales/
Distribution

Marta Popivoda

Marta Popivoda is a filmmaker, artist, and researcher whose work explores memory, history, ideology, and the collective and individual body from feminist and queer perspectives. Shown at the Berlinale, Locarno, MoMA, Tate, and more, she is a Berlin Art Prize winner and teaches at the University of the Arts Amsterdam.

Filmography
2013 Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
2021 Landscapes of Resistance
2025 SLET 1988